We're all mad here

[sovay]

I am returned from Readercon.

This was my third year in attendance, and as cons go, it was particularly awesome. High points included, but are not limited to, meeting eegatland (and hearing the first chapter of her novel-after-next The Sword Dance), sdn's stories about Lloyd Alexander, a very rapid conversation about film with Eric Van, the expression on time_shark's face after he won his third Rhysling Award, reading a collaboration with lesser_celery, recording three of my poems in Drew Morse's hotel room, and the entire panel on Angela Carter. The Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competition ("Metal things that could think! Thinking metal things!") probably left me with permanent brain damage. I need to see yuki_onna and grailquestion (not to mention matociquala) in more than fleeting glimpses. My book haul was small, but worthy: Elizabeth E. Wein's The Lion Hunter, thanks to the dealer's room, and Ysabeau Wilce's Flora Segunda, thanks to rushthatspeaks. Next year, I am getting a room at the con hotel.

But first, I think I'm going to fall over.

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[setsuled.livejournal.com]

and the audience has to pick which one is the real intro. Usually the audience comes in third or fourth or dead last.

There's something oddly comforting about the fact that mediocrity is imitable.

Lionel Fanthorpe would be proud . . .

Wow. I was waiting for him to say he wouldn't eat green eggs and ham on a strange, alien, terrifying plate (or would that be greeny eggs and ham?).

Have you read any of Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad Seven: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure (http://www.colbertnation.com/cn/tekjansen.php)?

I am hoping to be, for a change, asleep,

Yeah, me too, actually, since the routines around here have been pretty strange . . .

[kate_nepveu]

I asked grimmwire about this the next day, and he said he usually had to re-write his first efforts, as they tended to be too good . . .