[...] Since I’m kicking people while they’re down, I might as well point out that the latest project from Rick Olney and TightLip Entertainment, represented by Ronée Bourgeois, has been cancelled. The Mighty Mini-Con will not be held this year; delays in obtaining a venue are responsible. The show was scheduled to be held this weekend, September 23-24, making the announcement just in time to cancel travel plans. [...]

[...] Okay, this is pointless but funny: Remember James Meeley? He’s the fanboy doofus who thought he had the right to tell the folks at the Newsarama blog when they could and couldn’t link to his publicly accessible weblog. Having followed the link to his blog that he himself left behind in the comments section (in the process of telling people that he didn’t want links to his blog from that page), I had intended to comment upon one of the essays I found there. Alas, I never got around to it, and he’s since deleted said blog after a public meltdown of epic proportions, proving once again that hissy fits only get funnier when you’re throwing one because you think other people are trying to make you look bad — dude, it’s not like you needed the help, you know? Anyway, Evan Waters has a comprehensive, link-filled summary of the whole hilarious mess, and while Meeley has since gone back and deleted seemingly every comment he’s made on the pages in question, enough people quote him in the course of refutation that you’ll still have plenty of context. (Last link via Johanna Draper Carlson.) [...]