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Wizard World Chicago 2012 Photos, Part 4 of 5: Costumes! Costumes! Costumes!
My wife and I may have different goals and preferences at conventions, but one of our stronger common interests (besides a wish for better concession stand food) is a love of seeing other fans in...
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Wizard World Chicago 2012 Photos Part 5 of 5: Outtakes & Misc. — Costumes,...
The miniseries finale! Rather than cut back to three hours’ sleep per night, I decided early in the process to pace myself and set aside some photo sets for the conclusion, rather than trying to post...
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GenCon 2012 Photos #1: Costumes! Costumes! Costumes!
This weekend our fair hometown of Indianapolis hosted the 45th edition of GenCon, one of America’s oldest and largest gaming conventions. When I was a kid, it was hosted up Lake Geneva, Wisconsin,...
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GenCon 2012 Photos, Episode 2 of 4: Media Guests and More Costumes!
My wife and I present more of our Costume Contest and non-competitive costume pics from GenCon 2012 in Indianapolis, as we personally witnessed on Saturday, August 18, 2012. Same disclaimers apply as...
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GenCon 2012 Photos, Part 3 of 4: Last of the Famous International Costumes
Thanks very much to those of you who’ve been enjoying, sharing, and starring in the photos that my wife and I took at GenCon 2012 last weekend here in Indianapolis. Rest assured the city always gets a...
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Starbase Indy Clip Show: Memories of 2010 and 2011, Plans for 2012
On and off over the past two decades, Starbase Indy has served proudly and admirably as one of the longest-lived geek-culture gatherings in Indianapolis. Originally a purebred Star Trek convention by...
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Halloween Stats 2012; or, the Decline of Trick-or-Treating Civilization
Each year for the last five years I’ve kept statistics on the number of trick-or-treaters who graced our doorstep during the Halloween celebration of neighborhood interconnectedness and benevolent...
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Starbase Indy 2012 Photos, Part 1 of 3: The Day the Klingons Sang
As if Black Friday weren’t busy enough, my wife and I attended the seventeenth iteration of Starbase Indy on Friday and Saturday. This fan-run Star Trek convention is a longtime Thanksgiving weekend...
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Starbase Indy 2012 Photos, Part 2 of 3: Ezri Dax, the Real Astronaut, and the...
Despite the focus of Part One on Klingons extraordinaire Robert O’Reilly and J. G. Hertzler, they weren’t the only unforgettable personalities appearing at this year’s Starbase Indy convention. For...
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Starbase Indy Photos, Part 3 of 3: Costumes! (and other objects in space)
Let’s face it: costumes are the real reason to attend a sci-fi convention. Celebrities are okay. Talented writers and artists are nice to meet if they’re not terrible people. Panels, Q&As, and fan...
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My 2012 in Pictures: a Montage of Montages Past and Future
From a purely photographic perspective, our family found 2012 far from boring, to say the least. It wasn’t without its share of trials, tears, and terrors, but it’s my fervent hope that the memories of...
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Our C2E2 2011 Photo Archive, Part 1 of 2: Heroes in Chicago
This year my wife and I are gearing up to attend our third consecutive C2E2 comic-book-’n'-entertainment convention up in Chicago, happening April 26th-28th, 2013. We missed the inaugural year in 2010...
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Our C2E2 2011 Photo Archive, Part 2 of 2: Villains in Chicago
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: The following photo collection, to be curated and presented here in two parts, was previously shared elsewhere online [in 2011], but never on a site I could call...
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Our C2E2 2012 Photo Archive, Part 1 of 3: the Movie Tributes
We’re now two weeks away from this year’s C2E2, the fourth installment of Chicago’s up-’n'-coming comic-book-’n’-entertainment convention that hopes someday to achieve the size and reach of the San...
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Our C2E2 2012 Photo Archive, Part 2 of 3: the Marvel and DC Tributes
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: [T]he following photo collection, to be curated and presented here in three parts, was previously shared elsewhere online last year, two weeks before Midlife...
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Our C2E2 Photo Archive, Part 3 of 3: the TV and Video Game Tributes
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: [T]he following photo collection, to be curated and presented here in three parts, was previously shared elsewhere online last year, two weeks before Midlife...
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C2E2 2013 Photos, part 1 of 6: Costume Contest Winners and the Doctor Who...
As I type this, the fourth annual Chicago Comic and Entertainment Exposition (“C2E2″) its wrapping up this year’s three-day run, April 26-28, 2013. C2E2 dreams of becoming the Midwest’s answer to the...
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C2E2 2013 Photos, Part 2 of 6: Costumes from Screens Big and Small
Continuing our coverage of C2E2 costumes and other notable sights. Disclaimers are same as before. Corrections are welcome. Many of this year’s superhuman costumes were based on their filmic...
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C2E2 2013 Photos, Part 3 of 6: Costumes from Marvel, Image, and Other Comics
Continuing our coverage of C2E2 costumes and other notable sights from April 26-27, 2013. Disclaimers are same as before. Corrections are always welcome. In this installment: comic-book characters! At...
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C2E2 2013 Photos, Part 4 of 6: Geek Culture Settings and Artifacts
As we continue our coverage of last weekend’s fourth annual Chicago Comic and Entertainment Exposition (“C2E2″), we pause the cavalcade of costume photos and momentarily turn our cameras in other...
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