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Minicon 40: Saturday (LJ edition)
Even with my late night, the time zone change meant that I was up in plenty of time to make the 1000 panel "Curse Words and Other Ways to Tell it isn't a Children's Book".
This was a great panel, with interesting contributions from each of the panelists coming together to make something even better than any individual panelist's presentation would have been. They covered topics from the curse words of the title to the banning of books (Terry complained that even Utah wouldn't ban his) to the way that young adult books are often read by younger children these days. A recurring theme was the mixed blessing of the success of Harry Potter; it's helped many good YA books get back into print, but with "Potter-like" marketing even for those books that were covering that ground years before Rowling.
After the panel, I went with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrissa and truepenny to the hotel restaurant to try to get lunch. For whatever reason they were still serving from the breakfast menu, so I wound up having a bowl of oatmeal for sort of brunch, on the grounds that they couldn't screw that up too badly. (They didn't, but for that price they'd better not have.)
Lunch, or at least something resembling lunch, having been acquired, I spent some time wandering around the con. First, another dealer's room pass (during which I failed my saving throw and bought something, but managed to limit myself to three paperback books), then a bit of looking at the art show, followed by some general wandering-about-talking-to-folks. Eventually, I headed to the Green Room for a bit to relax and find something to supplement My So-Called Lunch.
My panel on Fictional Internets (which also featuredbeamjockey and Seth Breidbart WINOLJ) was scheduled for 1600, which put it up against a panel on writing with the guest of honor in the big room. Not surprisingly, the turnout was fairly low, though higher than I expected given the competition. I enjoyed this panel, though we wound up getting side tracked into a bit too much discussion of the real Internet before getting onto the real topic of the panel. (We were waiting for the scheduled moderator, who never made it.)
After that panel, I went back to the con suite, where I wound up playing my one game of the con (Settlers of Catan). That finished shortly before 1900, so I went to the LiveJournal party almost immediately. Somewhere in the course of the day I also stopped by the spot where custom LJ badges (complete with userpics) were being made bymplscorwin and crew, and added one to my collection. While there, I ran into gerisullivan who said "ah, you're ckd the blue shark!"
The LiveJournal party was loads of fun, and I spent quite some time there (which resulted in missing the auction, some panels, a reading or two...). I got to see people I had already met, people who I'd friended but had never met in person, folks who I recognized as frequent commenters on other LJs, and even a few people whose LJ names were completely unfamiliar to me. Several folks recognized my userpic, and "oh, you're the blue shark" (or "blue fish") was a common refrain. Many, many people (and manyminnehaha) were there. Thanks to cakmpls and sraun for hosting it!
Attendees that I noted (definitely not a complete list of attendees) includedcakmpls, carbonel, dd_b, dlacey, dreamshark, dsgood, elisem, gerisullivan, kip_w, laurel, luned, lydy, max_bialystock, minnehaha B, minnehaha K, mgs, mrissa, mplscorwin, netmouse, pameladean, sraun, and truepenny.
Following that, I took in the Chicago Worldcon bid party, then spent some more time in the con suite before heading off to bed.
This was a great panel, with interesting contributions from each of the panelists coming together to make something even better than any individual panelist's presentation would have been. They covered topics from the curse words of the title to the banning of books (Terry complained that even Utah wouldn't ban his) to the way that young adult books are often read by younger children these days. A recurring theme was the mixed blessing of the success of Harry Potter; it's helped many good YA books get back into print, but with "Potter-like" marketing even for those books that were covering that ground years before Rowling.
After the panel, I went with
mrissa and truepenny to the hotel restaurant to try to get lunch. For whatever reason they were still serving from the breakfast menu, so I wound up having a bowl of oatmeal for sort of brunch, on the grounds that they couldn't screw that up too badly. (They didn't, but for that price they'd better not have.)Lunch, or at least something resembling lunch, having been acquired, I spent some time wandering around the con. First, another dealer's room pass (during which I failed my saving throw and bought something, but managed to limit myself to three paperback books), then a bit of looking at the art show, followed by some general wandering-about-talking-to-folks. Eventually, I headed to the Green Room for a bit to relax and find something to supplement My So-Called Lunch.
My panel on Fictional Internets (which also featured
beamjockey and Seth Breidbart WINOLJ) was scheduled for 1600, which put it up against a panel on writing with the guest of honor in the big room. Not surprisingly, the turnout was fairly low, though higher than I expected given the competition. I enjoyed this panel, though we wound up getting side tracked into a bit too much discussion of the real Internet before getting onto the real topic of the panel. (We were waiting for the scheduled moderator, who never made it.)After that panel, I went back to the con suite, where I wound up playing my one game of the con (Settlers of Catan). That finished shortly before 1900, so I went to the LiveJournal party almost immediately. Somewhere in the course of the day I also stopped by the spot where custom LJ badges (complete with userpics) were being made by
mplscorwin and crew, and added one to my collection. While there, I ran into gerisullivan who said "ah, you're ckd the blue shark!"The LiveJournal party was loads of fun, and I spent quite some time there (which resulted in missing the auction, some panels, a reading or two...). I got to see people I had already met, people who I'd friended but had never met in person, folks who I recognized as frequent commenters on other LJs, and even a few people whose LJ names were completely unfamiliar to me. Several folks recognized my userpic, and "oh, you're the blue shark" (or "blue fish") was a common refrain. Many, many people (and many
minnehaha) were there. Thanks to cakmpls and sraun for hosting it!Attendees that I noted (definitely not a complete list of attendees) included
cakmpls, carbonel, dd_b, dlacey, dreamshark, dsgood, elisem, gerisullivan, kip_w, laurel, luned, lydy, max_bialystock, minnehaha B, minnehaha K, mgs, mrissa, mplscorwin, netmouse, pameladean, sraun, and truepenny.Following that, I took in the Chicago Worldcon bid party, then spent some more time in the con suite before heading off to bed.