{"id":5,"date":"2006-11-06T19:31:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T19:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/worldfantasy2006\/2006\/11\/06\/i-actually-went-to-some-panels\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T19:31:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T19:31:36","slug":"i-actually-went-to-some-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/worldfantasy2006\/2006\/11\/06\/i-actually-went-to-some-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"i actually went to some panels!"},"content":{"rendered":"

i left my con schedule with the schwag bag that i dropped off at my house, so i just wandered in randomly to the panel where the judges were explaining their process for choosing the fantasy awards. gordon van gelder was there asking a few questions, mark finn asked a number of questions, and ted chiang sat in the back as quiet as a churchmouse that someone had gagged.<\/p>\n

you will notice that the judges spent so much of the last year reading all the eligible material that their eyes blew out, forcing them all to wear glasses.
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then i went to the green room to swipe a schedule, so the next panel i went to i went to deliberately. it was all about howard studies.
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\ni was soon shocked to discover that this had nothing to do with howard the duck. but mark finn ("who bestrides this convention like a colossus"-tompkins) had already closed the doors, so i was trapped.<\/p>\n

i ended up being noticeably late for the panel i was actually sitting on because the howard panel went into overtime while everyone argued over whether or not interpreting robert e. howard’s imagery as homo-erotic meant that REH, and the panel by association, were all gay.<\/p>\n

my panel, which closed out the convention, was: "will somebody please explain this book?"<\/p>\n

i have never seen so many people attending a single panel and i was the exact last person to walk in<\/span>. sharyn november moderated the panel with amazing aplomb, keeping the topic moving, focused, and as silly as possible. i managed to work in a couple of snarky comments edgewise and failed to stick my foot any farther into my mouth than is normal for me. i would have felt stage fright, but because i came directly from the howard panel, for the entire hour i had to pee reallyreallyreally bad, and that was the first thing on my mind.<\/p>\n

checkout this water dispensor they had at the arboretum renasaince hotel (steve demonstrating).
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\nthis place was so fancy that they put cucumbers in the water<\/span>! this made the water extra fancy and, um, as tasty cucumbers.<\/p>\n

(i would have added this last comment a little closer to the ending of the con, but when i got home my roommates introduced me to the concept of "shotgunning" cans of beer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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