Rainn Wilson in the Los Angeles Times

Norwescon Publications
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:00:05 +0000
Blog, Media Mentions

Actor and comedian Rainn Wilson mentions Norwescon in an article in the Los Angeles Times.

Actor and comedian Rainn Wilson mentions Norwescon (again!) in this article in the Los Angeles Times.

When I was growing up in the ’70s in suburban Seattle, I had a secret obsession. I was a science fiction and fantasy nerd. This was waaaay before it was ever halfway cool to be one. This was before “Star Wars,” mind you. Before Comic-Con and “The Dark Knight” and the “Lord of the Rings” movies. These were the dark days of “Logan’s Run” and “Zardoz” and “Silent Running.”

My dad was an aspiring sci-fi author and we used to go every year to NorWesCon, the sci-fi and fantasy convention of Seattle. The most bizarre, mossy, unwashed nerds of the northwest would crawl out of their caves and cabins and caverns and descend upon the Ramada Inn at Sea-Tac airport for a weekend of lectures, book signings and Dungeons & Dragons gaming.