This year I attended my first Further Confusion, and I have to admit I liked it. Of course, I'm the more social kind of con attender, going to meet people, wander and catch a little bit of everything going on. And I should admit to having friends who were execs and staff, which might colour my views a bit, but I liked the con a lot. But it seems not everyone did...

Anthology of Sex Stories features piece on Furry.

It's been five years since I wrote a short editorial here, called “State of the Fandom”, and to my suprise it's still in the top 10 of most read articles here. So I felt it was time to give you all an overdue follow up, and grade the fandom on it's progress. So I submit to you, the Fandom's Report Card.

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I have written about many diverse subjects in the genre of sexuality, but this takes the cake. Let me tell you a little bit about a subculture of people who call themselves “furries.”

DNA Press Publishes "Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate" by Kenneth C. Eng on March 20th, which Coincides with the Show Dragons on the Discovery Channel - Animal Planet

Nartea Publishing, a division of DNA Press (www.dnapress.com), announced that the book “Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate” (ISBN 0-9748765-0-X) has been shipped to bookstores. The publication of this book coincides with the much-anticipated show Dragons on the Discovery Channel – Animal Planet (http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/dragons/dragons.html) to be seen on March 20th. The book features technologically advanced dragons battling one another in the Middle Ages, and contains fantastic fight sequences that span across time and space with an array of amazing weaponry. Philosophy is intrinsic to this writing.

Watts Martin, longtime furry fan, writer, and publisher, has been talking about the state of the fandom in his blog, recently. Always a controversial subject, I think Watts makes some good points in his commentaries. Go take a look at the first entry, and then the followup entry.

The World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) was in Toronto this past weekend. What went on?

Another article has appeared on the fandom, this time in The Globe and Mail, Canada's most-read national newspaper. (Aug. 16, 2003, p. R3)

Below is an announcement that Uncle Kage asked me to pass on to Flayrah

This interesting article discusses the increasing tendency of wildlife filmakers not to strictly observe nature, but to enhance and sensationalize it either through their narrative style or technical means.

"film-makers seem to be drifting towards a kind of biophobia, towards ever more reductionist points of view, more anthropocentric stagings, more aggressive and invasive filming techniques."

Rather than bringing us closer to understanding the other species on this planet, they are, in effect, making them more foreign.