It’s now ten years after the first RandyCon, and so, RandyCon 11 celebrates the 10 year anniversary of Randy Turning 30!

This is simply an entire weekend of a hotel full of Randy’s friends, great food, and games.  If you like any of the above, drop by any day of the weekend.

RandyCon 11: Friday April 15 – Sunday April 17, 2011.

Courtyard Chicago Deerfield
800 Lake Cook Road · Deerfield, Illinois 60015 USA

King room reservation ($64 a night)
King suite reservation ($94 a night, very few available!)

To get a room at the special pre-registration rate of a mere $64 a night (or $94 a night for a suite), call the hotel (1-847-940-8222) for And ask about RandyCon 11. Please get yourself a room at the hotel if you can! It’s important that I get to 15 rooms. Since this is a home-grown ‘con, getting rooms helps keep your admission fee down each year as the meeting rooms are cheaper.

You can also book online, getting our special rate, if you use the links above.

Come out to unplug your brain for an entire weekend, meet new people, and play games until you go blind. It’s free, but there’s also a suggested donation of $50 to cover the excellent food, sushi and constant flow of pop and snax.

If you’d like to prepay, click here!

Mariott Courtyard Chicago Highland Park/Northbrook
1505 Lake Cook Road
Highland Park, Illinois 60035 USA

King Reservation Link $60/night
King Suite Reservation Link $84/night (Very few available)

To get a room at the special pre-registration rate of a mere $60 a night (or $84 a night for a suite), call the hotel (1-847-831-3338) for RandyCon before Feb 19th. Please get yourself a room at the hotel if you can! It’s important that I get to 15 rooms. Since this is a home-grown ‘con, getting rooms helps keep your admission fee down each year as the meeting rooms are cheaper.

You can also book online, getting our special rate, if you use the links above.

Come out to unplug your brain for an entire weekend, meet new people, and play games until you go blind. The suggested donation is still $50 per person.

If you’d like to prepay, click here!

More details when I get them. I just wanted to announce this lock.

We actually have THREE more articles in the queue, as well, so our relationship with Electronic Musician has been going well.

Jonathan Coulton is truly an excellent example of a musician that made it on his own…without a label. Although his music is truly catchy and enjoyable, that’s not enough nowadays. And, indeed, as he talks about in the article, he did a lot of hard work reaching out to his fans. In fact, he treated reaching out to them as his day job, waking up every day, and when not doing music, he was on his email, and working on his website.

The rewards of this kind of work shows.  And the best thing is that he was happy to talk about how he did it in the article.

In case you’re curious, we got connected with Jonathan Coulton when we reached out to interview him for the Indie Band Survival Guide. He was happy to talk to us, and had a lot of great advice and stories that we used throughout the book. In person, he’s truly as nice and cool of a guy as you would expect him to be. We enjoyed talking music with him, as well as how he did it himself.

We ran into Electronic Musician after we did the books, and they interviewed us for the same column. After that point, we talked to them about doing some articles ourselves. They were so happy with this first one that they comissioned us for two more which we are working on now, and “more after that.” So, with any luck, you’ll be seeing more of our work in EM in the future.