{"id":272,"date":"2009-08-15T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T21:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2009\/08\/15\/armadillocon-special-report\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:24:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:24:04","slug":"armadillocon-special-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2009\/08\/15\/armadillocon-special-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Armadillocon Special Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, everyone who reads this within the next five hours needs to know that there is indeed a Space Squid<\/span> room party. It starts at 9pm, in room 614. There’s signs, so if you’re actually at Armadillocon you can probably find it.<\/p>\n

I never do quite as much picture taking as I feel I ought, but here’s some view of what was happening in the con for the past day or so.<\/p>\n

Here we see the writer’s workshop. Notice that everyone has that bleary early-morning look. Notice that several people have been forced to read Space Squid<\/span>. They are the early adopters.
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Here’s my critique group. This photo was taken before the actual critique, where I carefully informed everyone of their latent genius. That’s why they’re not totally thrilled to be there yet.
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Have you ever been in a room that suddenly goes silent, and you look up from your zine stapling to see Michael Moorcock? This is Moorcock presenting an award to Howard Waldrop. I can’t say I know exactly what that award is. You should look on someone else’s blog for that sort of thing. Remember, this blog is all about me.
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Here we see an intimate little reading with Paige E. Roberts<\/a>. She’s reading an explicit four-way lesbian vampire sex scene.
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\nAnd people wonder why Paige is Space Squid<\/span>‘s favorite author.<\/p>\n

Here’s Jayme Blaschke<\/a>. You’re always taking other people’s pictures, so how do you like it? Huh? Not so funny the other way, is it?
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At the Apollocon party, which I look forward to all year long. Yeah, it’s true. Here we see editor D Chang eating the signature Apollocon jello shot by dipping a cheeto in it.<\/span> It’s mad, I tell you, mad!
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\nAlso note that editor D displays his talent for always looking drunk whenever someone snaps a picture.<\/p>\n

Some stuff I should have taken pictures of, but didn’t:
\n-The improv reading contest. We had 9 contestants and a full house of highly entertained audience. The grand prize winner was Nathan, with his chupacabra story.
\n-Me sitting at the signing table, with con-goer after con-goer turning down my offer to sign body parts.
\n-Me podcasting the podcasting panel. I got this all recorded, the sound quality will likely be totally heinous, but it’s something. The highlight of the panel was when I casually let slip that barbacoa is made from heads, making Alan J. Porter<\/a> cry.<\/p>\n

I’ll probably record my reading tonight, giving us one more thing to put on the podcast and pretend that we’re doing stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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