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Thirteen Ways of Looking at 2Pi-Con
Aug. 14th, 2007 11:55 pm1) West Springfield is the rare sort of town that makes me feel better about living in Glens Falls.
2) The Glens Falls/Queensbury contingent consisted of me,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rafaela and the Astonishing Flying Melcherts, lbitw and jenphalian. zarhooie sadly could not attend, on account of her appendix deciding to go all 'splodey-like. This meant envoy, fresh in from London, had to step in on her behalf on the Polyamory 201 panel, which he did with great aplomb.
3) Finally got to meettheferrett officially, i.e. under non-crowded-party circumstances. Cool beyond cool, as were the other members of his posse, whose LJ handles I stypidly neglected to jot down. Help, someone?
4) Musical guest was Goth-folk-rocker Voltaire, who put on a smashing show on Friday night, which included a medley of the two songs he wrote for The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, as well as the sickest Star Wars filk you'll ever hear. (You have to respect a guy who deals with fans jumping in early on his most popular song by suddenly breaking into "Summer of '69" instead just to piss them off—and sticking with it right through to the chorus.) We later got to hang out with him in the con suite and share his pizza, once the gaggle of girls had stopped draping themselves over him. Nice fellow.
5) After Friday night, the word "colostolingus" remained scrawled on the con suite's whiteboard. It sounds disgusting, but I assure you: it's worse than you could even imagine. (It was Voltaire's fault.)
6) Yay! I remembered to use the game tables this time!
7) I missed the xkcd panel, dammit, but I did get to watch Randall Munroe play Guitar Hero withjenphalian. Lemme tell you somethin': it's hard to get all excited over someone else's video game prowess, but Oh. My. God. The man was taking on the hardest-shredding solos on the expert level, and he peeled the frickin' paint off of 'em. Dayum.
8) Note to self: pack bathing suit next time.
9) This has been widely reported elsewhere, but I have to mention the Cutest Con Panel Moment Ever. During the flirting panel, Sara made reference to her "all-but-husband Matt" in the audience. That changed very suddenly: at the end, Matt asked everyone not to leave, produced a ring, got down on one knee, and.... Yeah. yes, she accepted. Yes, I was a blubbering mess.
10) Cecilia Tan is still made of concentrated awesome.
11) *sigh* Okay, fine. I'll LARP next year. (But no boffers.)
12) I actually consumed alcoholic beverages on Saturday night! Plural, even! The first was a whiskey sour. I have no clue what the second one was. All hail, Barfleet!
13) Omigod, nifty people galore! My official quote of the weekend: "Step one: Go to con. Step two: add 37 names to you LJ f'list." Hey,frogs_are_cool, maverick_weirdo, transversecity and rumpleteasah? Y'all rule all known universes! Unfortunately, I was rather remiss in my LJ name-gathering, which means some nifty folks got away. Anyone have any clue whose Quiddler game I was kibbitzing on, or whose feet I was rubbing on the lobby sofa?
2) The Glens Falls/Queensbury contingent consisted of me,
rafaela and the Astonishing Flying Melcherts, lbitw and jenphalian. zarhooie sadly could not attend, on account of her appendix deciding to go all 'splodey-like. This meant envoy, fresh in from London, had to step in on her behalf on the Polyamory 201 panel, which he did with great aplomb.3) Finally got to meet
theferrett officially, i.e. under non-crowded-party circumstances. Cool beyond cool, as were the other members of his posse, whose LJ handles I stypidly neglected to jot down. Help, someone?4) Musical guest was Goth-folk-rocker Voltaire, who put on a smashing show on Friday night, which included a medley of the two songs he wrote for The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, as well as the sickest Star Wars filk you'll ever hear. (You have to respect a guy who deals with fans jumping in early on his most popular song by suddenly breaking into "Summer of '69" instead just to piss them off—and sticking with it right through to the chorus.) We later got to hang out with him in the con suite and share his pizza, once the gaggle of girls had stopped draping themselves over him. Nice fellow.
5) After Friday night, the word "colostolingus" remained scrawled on the con suite's whiteboard. It sounds disgusting, but I assure you: it's worse than you could even imagine. (It was Voltaire's fault.)
6) Yay! I remembered to use the game tables this time!
7) I missed the xkcd panel, dammit, but I did get to watch Randall Munroe play Guitar Hero with
jenphalian. Lemme tell you somethin': it's hard to get all excited over someone else's video game prowess, but Oh. My. God. The man was taking on the hardest-shredding solos on the expert level, and he peeled the frickin' paint off of 'em. Dayum.8) Note to self: pack bathing suit next time.
9) This has been widely reported elsewhere, but I have to mention the Cutest Con Panel Moment Ever. During the flirting panel, Sara made reference to her "all-but-husband Matt" in the audience. That changed very suddenly: at the end, Matt asked everyone not to leave, produced a ring, got down on one knee, and.... Yeah. yes, she accepted. Yes, I was a blubbering mess.
10) Cecilia Tan is still made of concentrated awesome.
11) *sigh* Okay, fine. I'll LARP next year. (But no boffers.)
12) I actually consumed alcoholic beverages on Saturday night! Plural, even! The first was a whiskey sour. I have no clue what the second one was. All hail, Barfleet!
13) Omigod, nifty people galore! My official quote of the weekend: "Step one: Go to con. Step two: add 37 names to you LJ f'list." Hey,
frogs_are_cool, maverick_weirdo, transversecity and rumpleteasah? Y'all rule all known universes! Unfortunately, I was rather remiss in my LJ name-gathering, which means some nifty folks got away. Anyone have any clue whose Quiddler game I was kibbitzing on, or whose feet I was rubbing on the lobby sofa?
