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Every year I try to put together a calendar of shows and sales and events that are of interest, just to have 'em all in one place for my reference. Here's 2017!

Jan. 22 - Woodstock Nostalgia Show & Sale http://www.collectorshows.ca/EN/home.php
Woodstock is a little far for us to get to. Probably won't make this one.

Feb. 5 - Ancaster Nostalgia Show http://www.collectorshows.ca/Shows/NOS_2017-02-05.php
Ancaster is just the other side of Hamilton and is much more 'doable' for us.

Feb. ? - Eyesore market, Eyesore Cinema 1176 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON
Eyesore Cinema is doing vendors markets and there's one in February we're going to be at selling Mister Kitty zines and kitschy junk!

Feb. 12 - Record Sale & Swap Meet, Guelph http://www.vibrations.ca/en/record-shows-and-fairs/icalrepeat.detail/2017/02/12/141/15/record-sale-swap-meet

Feb. 19 - Toronto Comic Book Show http://www.torontocomicbookshow.com/
This is the comic book show held at the hotel that hosted a few early Anime North conventions.

Feb. 19 - Anime North staff meeting (in Hamilton!)

March 5 - Ancaster Collectibles Extravaganza http://www.collectorshows.ca/Shows/TOY_2017-03-05.php

March 12 - Hamilton Record & Music Collectibles Show http://www.vibrations.ca/en/record-shows-and-fairs/icalrepeat.detail/2017/03/12/145/15/hamilton-record-music-collectibles-show

March 19 - Anime North Staff Meeting

March 26 - Toronto Downtown Record Show http://www.vibrations.ca/en/record-shows-and-fairs/icalrepeat.detail/2017/03/26/142/15/toronto-downtown-record-show

April 9 - Toronto/Mississauga Musical Collectibles Show http://www.vibrations.ca/en/record-shows-and-fairs/icalrepeat.detail/2017/04/09/98/15/the-toronto-mississauga-musical-collectables-show-sale

April 29 - Anime North Staff Meeting

April 30 - Toronto Comic Book Show http://www.torontocomicbookshow.com/

May 7 - Ancaster Collectorfest http://www.collectorshows.ca/Shows/TOY_2017-05-07.php

May 13-14 - TCAF http://www.torontocomics.com/
This is downtown and free and we might just drop in!

May 22- Anime North Staff Meeting

May 26-28 - Anime North http://www.animenorth.com/live/
Going to be doing Anime Hell and some panels at this one!

June 4 - Ancaster Collectibles Extravanganza http://www.collectorshows.ca/Shows/TOY_2017-06-04.php

June 9-11 - Anime Next http://www.animenext.org/
There's been some talk about us attending this show, so stay tuned for further developments.

June 25 - Toronto Comic Book Show http://www.torontocomicbookshow.com/

June 25 - Ancaster Nostalgia Show http://www.collectorshows.ca/Shows/NOS_2017-06-25.php

July ? - Liberty Village Yard Sale
No date announced yet, but this was a fun neighborhood thing we did last summer and hope to do it again this year.

July 28-30 - Con Bravo http://2016.conbravo.com/
We missed this one last year but we might swing by this year.

August 6 - Toronto Comic Book Show http://www.torontocomicbookshow.com/

August ? - Zine Dream http://zinedream.com/
No date announced yet but our intention is to get a table & sell some zines!

Sept. 24 - Toronto Comic Book Show http://www.torontocomicbookshow.com/

Sept 28 - Oct 1 AWA http://awa-con.com/
Gonna be doing Anime Hell and panels at this one too, obvs

Nov. 26 - Toronto Comic Book Show http://www.torontocomicbookshow.com/

(edited to add Anime North staff meetings)

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Geeze. It must be nice to be able to actually plan out events for an entire year.

The closest I ever came to that was a few years when I was attending cons in my area, Chicago, Lansing, Detroit. Luckily far enough apart that it wasn't troublesome.

finally the antique show people and the record show people have started putting out schedules in advance, and the comic book show people decided to quit halfing their thing with a hockey card show and instead do 4 comic book things a year, and finally I sat down and did a little research into all of 'em.

I won't be hitting even half of these things, I don't think.

Probably at least three Anime North staff meetings, and heck, I didn't even list the toy show on March 5, which is in the same place as and run by the same people as the comic book show: http://www.torontotoyshow.com/

There's a CCTS toy show sometime in the fall, too.

Now all I need is money!

see, I could make a list of places/events I'd LIKE to attend, but many of them end up the same weekend.

One fantasy example, the same weekend as AWA, there's a big deal convention run by Fanderson (official Gerry Anderson appreciation society) happening over in England.

Another, the Scottish festival in Alma, Michigan is Memorial Day weekend, same as A-Kon.

For nostalgia sake I'd love to go to Anime Central and Capricon in Chicago, not the same weekend but ya know, there's such a fear factor regarding Chicago nowadays (and I know the shootings aren't generally happening anywhere near where these cons are but you still gotta drive to get there :) )

Then there's the cons I've never been to, and the desire to come visit you and Shain (AN would be the perfect excuse, right? Maybe not. But some time) and the desire to drive back to Ft. Wayne and see what changes have gone on in the past 30 MELONFARMING YEARS ARE YOU KIDDING ME IT'S BEEN 30 YEARS?! *ahem* and down to Tipton to visit the graves of my grandfather and grandmother and Jamestown NY to visit my uncle and aunt and Pennsylvania and Boston to visit my cousins there and on and on and on.

None of that is going to happen now but it's all out there.

you should definitely dust off your passport and come to Anime North! Hell, you could take the train from GR to Toronto for a little less than a C-note.

It's bad here for stuff happening on the same weekend. This upcoming weekend is an AN staff meeting, a small local show called "Frostcon", and a Toronto Comics anthology social meet-and-greet. All on the same weekend.

Frostcon's guests? http://frostcon.weebly.com/guests.html The local Hobo Joker cosplayer - AND the local Dr. Evil cosplayer!! So probably wouldn't be going to that regardless. There are 16 cosplay-related panels vs 9 non-cosplay related panels (including opening ceremonies), 2 of which are basically the same panel (one is "queer girls in animation", another is "LGBTQ In Sailor Moon"). Zero video rooms, zero gaming rooms, which is an interesting choice. However, this con, It is Not For Me and that's OK.

Had a good time chatting at the last Toronto Comics social, even though we weren't and aren't part of the project. I missed the last 2 AN things so I ought to really go to this meeting, though.

Edited 2017-01-18 17:39 (UTC)

Still don't have a passport. I CAN upgrade my driver's license to an 'enhanced' version for extra money, and it was my plan to do so before mom died.

There's a tiny voice in my head that says get in the car, fill the tank, drive until it runs out then blow my brains out. Not gonna do that, if for no other reason, no gun. :) But that's a voice.

Passports aren't that big of a hassle. Get in the car, fill the tank, I'd say a tank of gas would get you to the other side of Windsor, maybe London, fill up again, see you in Toronto!

Passports take to long too get. I do want to get one, it'll be useful at some point I'm sure.

And really, I can't afford the luxury of that kind of trip. That's money that pays bills, puts food on the table (my food stamps got taken away), I might need to get some brake work done and shit.

Kind of a shame the northern border has gotten so strange, even given post-9/11. It's well known that the terror-minded people have ZERO trouble getting fake passports, all this crap, the airports, all that is just 'security theater' to keep people discomforted and slightly angry all the time. Blah blah.

FEMA CAMPS!

*ahem. sorry. I coughed. :)

Edited 2017-01-19 21:53 (UTC)

it's 4-6 weeks, which isn't too bad. My last renewal took maybe three weeks. I think my brother got his for last year's AN in about three weeks. The photo is the annoying part, I think. You don't wanna be travelling anywhere until the snow stops falling, anyways.

We've never had much trouble crossing the border, but middle aged white people are not on their profile for evil-doers. If you ever want to have a laugh, visit the TSA's blog where they post photos of the crazy dangerous things people try to fly with. At least a dozen loaded guns every week.

Ya know, it's not that they found guns because idiots thought they could get them past, it's all the stuff we don't KNOW about that gets past because they're frisking granny because of her hip replacement, or some fool starts to cause problems because he won't take his shoes or belt off. Or he has a damn PICTURE of a gun on a tee shirt.

And I am convinced at some airports there's people at the X-Ray machines checking luggage that identify bags that have easily sold goodies in them to people at luggage handling, who then 'accidentally' rip off the routing tag so that bag becomes 'lost' and they have time to paw thru and take the laptops and other valuable items.

I mean, we're not (mostly) a damn third world country where customs steals your stuff because they can yet cripes, people still have stuff stolen. With all the supposed security.

FEMA CAMPS! I'M UN-MUTUAL! :)

Yup, baggage theft is a thing that happens. "Don't put your laptop in checked baggage" is something everybody should know. "Don't fly with loaded firearms" is also something everybody should know, yet dozens of people try it every week, with potentially fatal consequences, as accidents with firearms happen all the time.

Thing is, you ARE allowed to transport a gun as a special checked luggage item, you just have to declare it and have all the proper paperwork. I was under the impression you could NOT check it in a loaded condition and the recent shooting in Florida makes me question just what the regulations are regarding ammo (that mess is just all messed up, that shooting), I was under the impression that generally you weren't allowed to transport ammo in the same container as a firearm (that is, say, a gun case with loaded mags or a box of ammo set in their shock foam cutouts like you would take to the firing range- actually, I think that's illegal transport now when you're at home, ammo must be in a separate case from the firearm).

And that's enough gun talk. sorry. :)

My reference is to people attempting to fly with loaded firearms in their carry-on bags, or on their person. These are the people the TSA catches dozens of every week.

http://blog.tsa.gov/

TSA discovered 71 firearms last week in carry-on bags around the nation. Of the 71 firearms discovered, 67 were loaded and 21 had a round chambered.

Every time anybody brings up the phrase "security theater", as if security at airports is unnecessary or useless or a waste of money, I bring up the TSA blog and its amazing display of loaded firearms people continue to try to bring onto airplanes. Until people quit trying to bring loaded firearms onto airplanes - that is to say, loaded firearms on their persons, I don't care about checked bags - until they quit, we'll need the TSA.

21 chambered rounds! That's 21 accidental shootings waiting to happen. There's nothing 'theatrical' about that.

Anyway, that's a thing I do, I'm going to bring up the TSA blog and its parade of doofuses every time anybody uses the phrase "security theater" anywhere, because I'm tired of the TSA being held up as a whipping boy or a scapegoat any time anybody talks about flying.

And you're right to do so. I hope you don't have such a low opinion of me that you'd think I approve of someone carrying a loaded firearm onto an airplane (that isn't on-duty law enforcement of course), these fools and jackwads that do that, yeesh.

But they would have been caught by pre-9/11 airport security. Heck, one time in the '90s I was flying home from Project:A-Kon and I got pulled aside because I had stuffed my gift chopsticks in my carryon and they couldn't make hide nor hair over what those things were! :)

No, when I bitch about 'security theater' I'm talking about things like the 'fluid restriction' and removing belts (shoes, man, that's a real coinflip to me if that's useful NOW or just stupid) and the stories of kids getting hassled because they have an action figure with a tiny little gun. there's a LOT of different vectors angling together here of course but it's meaningless monkey motion on the whole.

Take the fluids limit. The logic is this prevents dangerous amounts of 'something' (binary explosives, combustible liquid, poison gas and so on) being brought on board. Real Hollywood action movie stuff. OK, it's a concern. With my 'general knowledge' I could probably put something together out of household chemicals that could be dangerous, I'm sure you could as well. So, seems like a good idea. But the logic isn't followed thru! Say you're a bad guy, and you want to use a binary liquid explosive to blow up an airliner. 3 oz. won't do enough damage. So you have 4 or 5 or whatever comrades all carry a tiny amount and you put it together in the bathroom in the pop bottle you bought inside the secured area. boom. What should be done is NO fluids brought on board except for food bought inside the secure area. THAT would make sense. How do you (they) figure that 3 oz. is 'safe enough'?

And we can't talk about how lax the security checks are for the people who clean the plane and handle the luggage and all that 'inside the zone' stuff.

blah blah blah. The obvious solution is become rich and have your own airplane. :)

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