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Well, 5 souls showed up to my reading, which was at 11:30 pm on Friday, my friend Phyllis (such a sweetheart), Bruce, and 3 guys I didn't know. I didn't drool or throw up, so it went pretty well. Didn't look up much, but oh well. Bruce laughed in appropriate places. Then he gave me a ride home, though Phyllis would have been happy to, as well. Riches.
The Buffy panel was a riot, lots of fun; Martha Wells and I had several of our own convos about Xander and the squickiness of Spike's naked chest while the rest of the room was arguing loudly about what part of Once More With Feeling certain lyrics appeared in and other things. The "Creating Plausible Language" was actually pretty good; not a word about klingon or any such and between Marth, Bill Spencer, Eliz Moon and Robin Hobb (and me) it was a pretty interesting discussion of slang, jargon, character language quirks, time period and subculture appropriateness, badness of apostrophes (nods to A), digital pager speak, etc. The Splipstream panel was silly, but I got to mention lots of women lit writers who have written the unclassifiable whom none of the men on the panel bothered to mention.
Bid on and got a small piece of art and picked up the new Tanith Lee Secret Books of Venus book. Bruce chatted up Gaiman's American Gods on the ride home, so I finally took it off the shelf and started reading it.
There was a panel on blogging in which nothing very interesting was said. And I watched one of those little robot dogs for almost an hour, fascinated by how much I wanted to pat its head and say "oh you cute little pupster!"
An interesting thing I've noted about playing the SIMS, the more of their simoleans I spend, the less I feel any urge to buy stuff with my own moolah in the real(ish) world.
Since blogging is originally supposed to be about logging the cool places you've surfed to, here's Martha Well's website, www.marthawells.com and SIMS site for the Mac (it's also PC compatible) aroundthesims.online.fr/index.html and one for making quizzes for your friends to take, http://www02.quizyourfriends.com/createquiz.html
Work now.
The Buffy panel was a riot, lots of fun; Martha Wells and I had several of our own convos about Xander and the squickiness of Spike's naked chest while the rest of the room was arguing loudly about what part of Once More With Feeling certain lyrics appeared in and other things. The "Creating Plausible Language" was actually pretty good; not a word about klingon or any such and between Marth, Bill Spencer, Eliz Moon and Robin Hobb (and me) it was a pretty interesting discussion of slang, jargon, character language quirks, time period and subculture appropriateness, badness of apostrophes (nods to A), digital pager speak, etc. The Splipstream panel was silly, but I got to mention lots of women lit writers who have written the unclassifiable whom none of the men on the panel bothered to mention.
Bid on and got a small piece of art and picked up the new Tanith Lee Secret Books of Venus book. Bruce chatted up Gaiman's American Gods on the ride home, so I finally took it off the shelf and started reading it.
There was a panel on blogging in which nothing very interesting was said. And I watched one of those little robot dogs for almost an hour, fascinated by how much I wanted to pat its head and say "oh you cute little pupster!"
An interesting thing I've noted about playing the SIMS, the more of their simoleans I spend, the less I feel any urge to buy stuff with my own moolah in the real(ish) world.
Since blogging is originally supposed to be about logging the cool places you've surfed to, here's Martha Well's website, www.marthawells.com and SIMS site for the Mac (it's also PC compatible) aroundthesims.online.fr/index.html and one for making quizzes for your friends to take, http://www02.quizyourfriends.com/createquiz.html
Work now.
