OH WE HAVE A MARATHON

Yes, it's on! The 31st Annual Boston 24-Hour Science Fiction Marathon ("SF/31") is a go from noon Sunday, February 19 to noon Monday, February 20, 2006. That's President's Day weekend and that's a goddamn tradition. I've been going for over 10 years at this point, missing only the 2002 edition (when they finally showed THE OMEGA MAN like I'd only been asking for since like forever.) Tickets are $42.50 if purchased before December 1, when the price inexplicably rises to $46.50. When you consider that's about 12-13 films plus shorts and cartoons and Rice Chex/Wheat Chex battles, it's one heck of a deal.

( Garen Daly just put the ON in THON )