A few notes from Worldcon
Sep. 16th, 2004 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nancylebovTwo good ideas: The First Night midway on Thursday--I went to the juggling workshop, and while I didn't end up juggling three balls in twenty minutes (as promised), I did find out something about how much precision one can put into tossing a ball from one hand to the other, and one these days I might end up juggling three balls.
The Arisia party had a convention in one night--name badges, dealer's table, other stuff I don't remember. I wasn't there, but it sounded exceedingly neat, and I hope I have a chance to see such a thing at some future convention.
I spent most of my day time in the dealers' room, which made me realize that there were almost no panels in the evening. I vote for at least a few evening panels if that's tolerable for the panelists.
I might post about the panels I missed in the hopes of getting a little post-con discussion.
I did get to a Tolkien panel--I wish I remembered more of it, but it was good to hear a lot of people say that they don't hate Tom Bombadil. I don't either. Actually, this fits with my previous comments about silly endearments--a lot of people find even small amounts of silliness in fiction hard to take, and I wonder why.
Imho, part of the point of Tom Bombadil is that dignity doesn't matter. You can have dignity if you want (it's part of how Gondor works), but it doesn't make you either good or powerful.
My experiment with little buttons went reasonably well--they sold ok, and will presumably do better as I get a better idea of what slogans to put on them and how to display them.
If what I heard at my table was a fair sample, at least 80% of attendees were pro-Kerry/anti-Bush.
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elisem and many thanks to papersky for staying up very late talking with me.
The Arisia party had a convention in one night--name badges, dealer's table, other stuff I don't remember. I wasn't there, but it sounded exceedingly neat, and I hope I have a chance to see such a thing at some future convention.
I spent most of my day time in the dealers' room, which made me realize that there were almost no panels in the evening. I vote for at least a few evening panels if that's tolerable for the panelists.
I might post about the panels I missed in the hopes of getting a little post-con discussion.
I did get to a Tolkien panel--I wish I remembered more of it, but it was good to hear a lot of people say that they don't hate Tom Bombadil. I don't either. Actually, this fits with my previous comments about silly endearments--a lot of people find even small amounts of silliness in fiction hard to take, and I wonder why.
Imho, part of the point of Tom Bombadil is that dignity doesn't matter. You can have dignity if you want (it's part of how Gondor works), but it doesn't make you either good or powerful.
My experiment with little buttons went reasonably well--they sold ok, and will presumably do better as I get a better idea of what slogans to put on them and how to display them.
If what I heard at my table was a fair sample, at least 80% of attendees were pro-Kerry/anti-Bush.
It was good meeting
elisem and many thanks to papersky for staying up very late talking with me.
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Date: 2004-09-16 09:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-16 12:09 pm (UTC)I do think Jackson was absolutely correct to pull him out of the movie - though I'm sorry he didn't work out some better way to arm the hobbits for the fight at Weathertop, one that would have clearly given Meriadoc a Numenorian sword. I mean, Aragorn just happened to be carrying four swords with him? Whassupwiddat?
Even worse was Jackson's sticking the Old Man Willow bit into Fangorn (in the extended DVD), but that's another issue...
NEway, Bombadil is both vital to the story-as-written and quite a bit of fun, even if his verse makes no sense...
Ring-a-dong-dillo!
Worldcon!
Date: 2004-09-16 02:46 pm (UTC)If you're going to talk about missed panels - I missed one on how to review books. I've been reviewing books for SFrevu for a while now and I'd like to know if I'm making a bunch of mistakes without knowing it.