So as I've mentioned repeatedly before, I'll be at Anime Central this weekend in Rosemont, IL. I haven't done a con this big in a very, very long time, and I'm pretty excited about it.
I will, of course, be in the Artist Alley, and you can conveniently find me at table E07. If you want to know where that is, here's a handy dandy layout:
 Stop by if you can, because I love talking with folks.
It should be pretty great.
- Traegorn
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Why is it that when I get busy I find the time to update literally all of my projects online except this blog? I mean, I've been running this website for almost nineteen years, and maintaining this space for fourteen or so.
I mean, I blog a couple times day over at Nerd & Tie (which admittedly cut out some of the content that used to appear here). I write music (hey, I put out a new song about the fanfic My Immortal). I draw multiple comics a week ( The Chronicles of Crosarth and UnCONventional).
But I don't take the time to write about me.
Maybe I just don't have as much going on. Maybe I just have thrown myself so much into my creative projects that I don't have much else to say. Maybe it's because I don't find myself as interesting as I did when I was twenty at thirty-four...
...okay, that's not true. I'm absolutely fascinating.
But here I am, going weeks at a time without anything to say. I think it's because the relationship drama that used to fill my life evaporated once I met my wife Crysta, I can't talk about work, and now all my nerd blogging is elsewhere. The most I have to talk about here is convention appearances and creative projects, which often speak for themselves.
Ah well.
I'm excited about ACen at least.
- Traegorn
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So this weekend I'll be at my "home con" No Brand Con in Eau Claire, WI. It's Wisconsin's oldest and longest running Anime Convention and I'm expecting it to be a super awesome time.
Honestly, this year is my first year of barely being involved in it (technically I'm always staff as a co-founder, but I don't even get to vote in things since I can't attend the meetings physically), and I think that's going to be weird for me.
But hey, it had to happen some day.
I'll be in the Artist Alley most of the weekend, and my table will be right outside main programming. I'll also still be hosting No Brand Con's tradition late night screening of Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice on Friday Night -- so that should be fun. Right before that, at 10:30pm, I'll also be doing a live version of the Nerd & Tie podcast too -- so you should be there.
Doing two cons in a row is a bit exhausting, as I was at The INDYpendent Show / Who's Yer Con last weekend, but I think it's worth it. I mean, I had a lot of fun last weekend and I'll have a lot of fun this weekend.
I'll just be very, very tired.
After No Brand Con I have to prep for Anime Central too... oh god... I'm going to be so tired...
- Traegorn
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So this Sunday I'll be trucking the touring Trae show down to Indianapolis for the INDYpendent Show. I did the spring show last year and had an awesome time. I had to miss the fall show last year, so I'm happy to be back this time around.
This year the event is being run in conjunction with Who's Yer Con - and admission is totally free. If you're in the area, come out and hang out with me. It'll be fun.
And then? Well the following weekend I'll be at No Brand Con in Eau Claire, WI.
Because I am a masochist.
- Traegorn
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So I've known this for a while, but I wanted to hold back until contracts were signed (and it got put on their website) - I'll be at Oz Con this year as a guest of honor.
Specifically (as there are a couple of events around the world with similar names), I'll be at the Oz Con in West Plains, MO. The dates are June 26-28, and preregistration is still very much open.
Oz Con is a "gaming, cosplay and anime convention" held at the West Plains Civic Center, and I think it'll be a lot of fun. I don't do a lot of cons in that area, so it'll be a chance to talk to people who I haven't met yet -- and maybe a shorter drive for fans I have west of the Mississippi to come see me.
Because I want to see them.
So be there.
You won't regret it.
This year I think I'm doing twice as many conventions as I usually do, and it's exhausting... but kind of awesome. I have a lot of stuff in the works that hasn't been announced yet, and as soon as I firm things up, I'll post about it here too.
As for this last weekend, I had a great Saturday at Karoshi Con by the way, and definitely plan on going back next year. Of course, mostly it's because I got to hang out with friends like Nick from Nerd & Tie as well as awesome human beings like KORFan. Frankly, everyone there was kind of great. If you can get to DeKalb, IL next year, do it. You won't regret it.
My next con is the INDYpendent Show in Indianapolis on April 19th -- quickly followed by No Brand Con in Eau Claire, WI the following weekend (April 24-26).
Like I said, I'm busy.
- Traegorn
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Just a reminder to y'all that I'll be at Karoshi Con on Saturday (tomorrow). It's a free convention, so if you're anywhere in Southern Wisconsin or Northern Illiniois, you should consider getting in your car and driving to DeKalb, IL.
The convention is being held at the Holmes Student Center at Northern Illinois University, and I'm excited.
My day job has been super busy these last few weeks, so I'm looking forward to blowing off steam, hanging out, and having fun. I'll be behind my artist table the whole time, so just look for the moron next to a "Trae Dorn Productions" banner.
Besides myself (and of course my lovely wife Crysta), Nick Izumi from Nerd & Tie will be there too, helping staff his fiancee Rena's table as well. So, it's a party.
A free party.
And you should come. And maybe get IHOP with me after the convention is over.
- Traegorn
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So I promised mid-last year that I was putting out a new album, but the calender changed to 2015 without anything materializing. It's not that I hadn't been working on tracks, but that I hadn't had time to finish most of them.
Well, it's been too long in my opinion, and rather than sit on half a finished LP while I wait to have time to work on it more, I thought I'd release the finished tracks as an EP instead.
So here we are.
Today I present to you the new Lt. Snorkel EP The Moment After. It's a collection of very different tracks (as all my albums are), meant to evoke love, nostalgia, humor and loss.
That sounds really high concept. Let's try that again: I wrote three songs (including the theme song to "Soldiers of the Sun") and covered Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off."
Much better.
Now go download the album
- Traegorn
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I originally posted a version of this to Nerd & Tie on February 27th, but I wanted to share it here too
Leonard Nimoy passed away last week in his home. His death was due to his battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which he had also been recently hospitalized for. He was 83 years old.
It's hard for me to describe how much a man I've never met has meant to me. It took me twenty minutes to write the first sentence of this article. I remember as a kid watching reruns of the original Star Trek and just being in awe of the man. When my brother, sister and I would play pretend, my older sister always wanted to be Captain Kirk (because she wanted to be in charge) and my younger brother pretended to be McCoy.
I always picked Spock.
I think my siblings must have thought it was because that's what was left, but no -- he was always my first choice. Growing up I, like many of the people who read this blog, was an outsider. I never really felt like I was a part of what was around me, and Spock, a half alien alone on a ship of humans, was who I related to. But Spock still found a place there, and that gave me the hope I needed. I knew that I would find my place.
And that, in many ways, saved my life.
Leonard Nimoy never knew me, but his performance on that show is part of why I'm still here typing these words. He touched so many people, and the world is a little less bright without him.
- Traegorn
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