| Saturday, January 26, 2002 |
01:23 - Well, that was actually relaxing. Huh.
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Just got back from spending most of the day at Further Confusion; most of the evening was spent at the VCL party where we batted each other with fun-noodles for several hours, but before that I sat at the back of Lance's "Writing for Comics" panel that he hosted with the author of Suburban Jungle.
The panel actually worked out very well, if you overlook the fact that the event was completely left out of all the scheduling lists for the day-- so David Brin, who had the panel room at 3:00, didn't realize that there was supposed to be another one taking his place at 4:00. Meanwhile, nobody realized that Lance's panel was supposed to take place, but somehow a whisper came down from the ventilation system that something was supposed to be happening, and David hustled himself out.
Let me tell you, it was pretty weird having to elbow aside David Brin in order to get a panel on comic-writing set up. (But he did semi-jokingly offer to be on the panel himself-- he does have a new graphic novel out, after all. But Lance wasn't about to try to share a panel with David Brin. That just wouldn't have been especially fun.)
Good con; high attendance, not a lot of money being spent, but hey-- it's hard economic times and all. Lance is going to voice auction tomorrow on a Kyoht piece; knowing what happened last year (the $3500 GoldenWolf piece he won in an intense bout of voice-auctioning, an event which has gone down in lore and legend), Kyoht must be just about ready to go into the coffee-nerves twitching state that often accompanies a four-figure sale. But hey, it's a good piece. Tomorrow will be interesting; I may go back and see how it all turns out.
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