Just catching up to lj friend posts and realized I need to at least say a bit more about Readercon (there WILL be pix)...I had a wonderful time but also realized after the fact (and even a little during) that I missed saying hello (or interacting more than saying hello to a few people I know from online groups--I apologize. I either didn't recognize you until too late or kept seeing you enroute to somewhere else that I was running late. Also, there were people I would have liked to have seen that I didn't (even though it's a very small space). Finally, I didn't say goodbye to many folks I would have liked to.
My panels went ok, although I wasn't totally delighted with any of them. They kept getting sidetracked off the center of the topic or avoided the topic completely. No one at fault, just a confluence of panel members, possibly differing agendas, or a misunderstanding of what the panel was supposed to cover.
I attended the 40 minutes movie of Tom Disch reading his 33 poems just after Charlie Naylor's death. He read well. It was "nice" to "see" him one last time. I wasn't as emotionally affected as I worried I'd be. I didn't stay for the discussion afterwards.
I drank too much and slept too little. I had panels at 10 am twice --couldn't use my laptop to fetch email because the hotel wanted to charge $10 a computer per day. I just used the free biz center downstairs to read and respond to the most important emails.
I have to put the photos up before Wed because that's when the Jackson Award fundraiser at KGB is and I'll be taking more photos there!
My panels went ok, although I wasn't totally delighted with any of them. They kept getting sidetracked off the center of the topic or avoided the topic completely. No one at fault, just a confluence of panel members, possibly differing agendas, or a misunderstanding of what the panel was supposed to cover.
I attended the 40 minutes movie of Tom Disch reading his 33 poems just after Charlie Naylor's death. He read well. It was "nice" to "see" him one last time. I wasn't as emotionally affected as I worried I'd be. I didn't stay for the discussion afterwards.
I drank too much and slept too little. I had panels at 10 am twice --couldn't use my laptop to fetch email because the hotel wanted to charge $10 a computer per day. I just used the free biz center downstairs to read and respond to the most important emails.
I have to put the photos up before Wed because that's when the Jackson Award fundraiser at KGB is and I'll be taking more photos there!
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I'm sure that if our roles had been reversed, and you'd told people "Oh my God, it's Scott Edelman, AND HE'S GOT A GUN!," you would have been able to pull it off.
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Of course, they'll then need to find a new con hotel for 2010, but it will be worth it for the spectacle.
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Since my memory of this con is vague, I googled it, and this was all I could find, a mention in Mark Jacobson's book Teenage Hipster in the Modern World: From the Birth of Punk to the Land of Bush: Thirty Years of Apocalyptic Journalism:
I'll bet you've already read this book. I feel a sudden urge to rush off and buy it now.
His stuff sounds like something you might have written.
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Same Legs?
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I think I saw you too, at least once --amazing how such a small convention can be so full of people that we can't interact with everyone? (rhetorical :-) )
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And I hope the photo I took of you looks as good when I download it ;-) If not, I promise to delete!
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And I hope the photo I took of you looks as good when I download it ;-) If not, I promise to delete!
Danke. ;-)
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Ouch. I don't understand why hotels do that. I mean, I understand it, but find it ... slimy and greedy on their part. Makes me pick other hotels when it's possible.
Sounds like it was a typical convention -- too short, and draining and energizing at one and the same time. :-)
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And yes, you nailed it. I wish I had time to rest--yikes I still have to unpack. (and get dressed)
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I had a distinct moment of missing college when I happened to be traveling with some RPI (my alma mater) kids and they very nonchalantly set up an ad hoc network immediately upon reaching the hotel, serving their three rooms. I loved that they just did it as a matter of course. It's not too difficult to get one internet connection and then share it wirelessly with your neighbors.
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Yeah, this happened several times in panels that I attended as well. Mostly I found it to be session leaders who did not steer people back to the topic at hand. In one panel people spent half of the session talking about 9/11 rather pointlessly, for example. The best panels were those in which the participants took on the topic head-on and the moderator kept people on track. The Apocalypse and Historical Eras panels were the best in this regard, because the panel had a conversation with the audience and we threw ideas back and forth, and the session leaders kept the ball rolling.
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I had to call tech support at least 4 times across those two days just to get connected, for a total of about an hour of phone time. And once I was connected, it would randomly drop me.
I was going to complain at check-out, but the wireless access didn't appear on the bill, so I didn't want to remind them about it.
I didn't realize the business center was free. Usually it's the wireless that's free and the business center that costs.
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