FiestaCon/WesterCon - Christmas

I was on just one panel yesterday, about adapting comic-books to the big screen. Sue also was on it. It didn't quite work out because, early on, the moderator asked the few people in the audience what they thought about the subject. The person who immediately answered kept obsessing about how the various comics-based movies ignored the 40 years's worth of stories of the characters. Luckily there were others in the audience who felt otherwise.

We then had dinner with Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Teresa's sister Ericka was also there. Very nice, and I think I managed not to make a fool of myself.

Earlier in the day, I got my Christmas present. Rather, I saw something in the dealer's room and I later unsubtly laid hints to Sue that I'd like to have just one thing for Christmas. The hints were accompanied by my pointing to the object I coveted so covetously.

A 12-inch tall handmade model of this famous transportation device...



I'll have to take steps to keep it out of the reach of Agatha the Cat Genius otherwise she'll quickly run out of lives.

Happy Fourth!

"This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend SOMEbody!"
- John Adams in 1776

FiestaCon/WesterCon - puns, past lives and boredom

I was on a pun panel today and I basically found myself unable to think up any good one. I knew the dynamics of doing it in the real world in real time would be different from doing it in the blogosphere. I'll live. At least I remembered some good ones from Groucho and attributed them to him, being a good marxist.

The steampunk-literature went pretty well, and I showed myself to be knowledgeable. As for the steampunk-movie panel... In spite of my work and rehearsals, I managed to run overtime and left almost no time for the other panelist. Sure, we started late because we were too polite to kick out the past-life therapy group, but I sucked, based on the lack of reactions as I went thru my slideshow. Oh well.

Luckily there's the Making Light gathering tonight after the Fourth of July fireworks.

Again, a happy Fourth!