5 April, 2011
Stellarcon 2011 and High Point, NC
Posted in : Travel Guide for High Point - NC, Writing on by : The Gourmez
I am way behind on all my travel posts, but I’m hoping to get that taken care of in the next few weeks. Here’s one on a trip the husband and I took to High Point, NC, for the 35th Stellarcon. “Now old enough to run for president!” was the unofficial slogan. This was my third speculative fiction convention, and Ben’s first.
What did I think? It was fun! Stellarcon convinced me to sign up in large part because I was amazed that such a small conference offered so much programming. As an author, I’m most drawn to the panels on writing-related aspects that I need more guidance on, but I also really enjoyed the fan-based panels, though I only attended two. One was on love for New Who and the other was a celebration of that glorious genre called B-movies.
A sci-fi/fantasy convention, you say? Where are the crazy pictures? Well, since you asked . . .
Klingon Karaoke!
Apparently, this is a Stellarcon tradition, with a Klingon and an Enterprise crewwoman hosting the event. I sang a little No Doubt—pretty badly since I didn’t remember the verses to Spiderwebs. Sigh. Other singers had more success.
On Day 2, Ben and I went for a walk around High Point, as I’d never been there beyond stopping to take a picture there during the Giant Furniture Adventure. I was surprised by many of the awesome buildings High Point has that are definitely worthy of a shot or two.

A nice statue of John Coltrane. There’s a plaque nearby that plays excerpts from several of his works.
That evening, we headed to the costume competition, which is always a highlight for me of these events. Here were my favorite costumed competitors.
I’ll post some more pictures on our photo site eventually, but I’m even farther behind updating there. Oh, the torment of sharing too much personal information over the interwebs–my digital life can never keep up with my real one.