There are forums over at maximumfun.org If you're willing to search you can find the boards from previous years. They're starting to kick into gear for this year, but it's already sold out. I've always wanted to go myself, but it usually doesn't work with my schedule.

Maximum Fun has a MaxFunCon every May/June and it's like this. I haven't been to one of those, but know plenty of people that have. Back before Maximum Fun started getting all the big press from the AV Club it was more or less a club. You only knew about these things if you listened to their podcasts. Most of the…

That's what I thought. I went on it last year, was terrified that it'd be very uncomfortable. Most of the people that listen to the Maximum Fun lineup of podcasts are extremely nice people, and tons of introverts that feel the same way. It was a ton of fun.

You can hang out with others if you want. I went with my wife, we mainly just hung out together. If you want to hang out with other people, including the musicians and comedians, then you can. Make it what you want, that seems to be the general ethos of Maximum Fun.

I was on this cruise last summer. The comedians and artists hung out with people the entire time. It's a normal cruise, and then if you bought through Maximum Fun you have access to the shows. People ate meals with the comedians and musicians, hung out with them during the day, late night parties ensued with…

Where's SPY with PFT?
I was surprised to not see Stop Podcasting Yourself on here. Podcast guest extraordinaire Paul F. Tompkins was on this week. It was a tremendous show as always, but I thought with PFT on it might get a shout out.