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back from Eastercon!
Apr. 6th, 2010 01:23 pmThat was a total immersion experience, wow. Four days of geekdom and nothing else; now it feels somewhat difficult to adjust to the "real" world.
The con hotel was described as non-euclidean and it easily swallowed up the thousand attendees. Only at the really popular programme items did the main hall feel crowded, like the Saturday showing on big screen of the brand new "Doctor Who" -- that was an awesome experience, watching it with hundreds of dedicated fans!
Not quite as many fans turned up to "enjoy" the infamous "Shark Attack 3: Megalodon" and that was their loss. The half-dozen of us in the audience had a great time, with the hilarious FX (enormous shark swallowing boat, sandworm-fashion), the amazing dialogue (Barrowman's character: "At the first sign of trouble, I'm _going to take it out_") and awesome audience comments. Ha ha!
After a day of wandering about, another day of preparing for and executing our fantabulous LEXX cabaret number (the Stanley Tweedle song and the Brunnen-G song; no one got it, but with the last song we turned the con into an official LEXX event, muaha), I finally got to go to a lot of programme items on the Sunday -- and it almost all of it was more or less hard science. Ben Goldacre's zany performance ranting about bad science was hilarious, the exobiology lecture was led by an almost incomprehensibly mad-scientist type guy, the fusion power talk was like a real lecture, Alastair Reynolds gave a really good talk about Mars and the history of SF... There were also takes on popular game shows like QI and Just a Minute, and a whole lot of Paul Cornell everywhere.
Food was almost non-existent, except for the full English breakfast at the hotel (I stayed at one some 300m away from the venue; it was circular instead of non-euclidean) but the beer flowed freely. After the first evening, the fatally strong cider ran out, mercifully. Ow, that packed a lot of punch! Scandinavia was very well represented this year, everyone said, and most Swedes tended to clump together and make a splash. There were snippets of comments here and there during the weekend, with the word "Scandinavians" in them. Hmmm...
Now I know what a Beeblebear is, what a steampunk megaphone looks (and sounds) like, and how to navigate non-euclidean space. The only disappointment was that there wasn't even one Dalek to be seen in the dealers' room, or even in the airport toy shop! Still, I got a big box of Jelly Babies going home.
Bring on the next con!
The con hotel was described as non-euclidean and it easily swallowed up the thousand attendees. Only at the really popular programme items did the main hall feel crowded, like the Saturday showing on big screen of the brand new "Doctor Who" -- that was an awesome experience, watching it with hundreds of dedicated fans!
Not quite as many fans turned up to "enjoy" the infamous "Shark Attack 3: Megalodon" and that was their loss. The half-dozen of us in the audience had a great time, with the hilarious FX (enormous shark swallowing boat, sandworm-fashion), the amazing dialogue (Barrowman's character: "At the first sign of trouble, I'm _going to take it out_") and awesome audience comments. Ha ha!
After a day of wandering about, another day of preparing for and executing our fantabulous LEXX cabaret number (the Stanley Tweedle song and the Brunnen-G song; no one got it, but with the last song we turned the con into an official LEXX event, muaha), I finally got to go to a lot of programme items on the Sunday -- and it almost all of it was more or less hard science. Ben Goldacre's zany performance ranting about bad science was hilarious, the exobiology lecture was led by an almost incomprehensibly mad-scientist type guy, the fusion power talk was like a real lecture, Alastair Reynolds gave a really good talk about Mars and the history of SF... There were also takes on popular game shows like QI and Just a Minute, and a whole lot of Paul Cornell everywhere.
Food was almost non-existent, except for the full English breakfast at the hotel (I stayed at one some 300m away from the venue; it was circular instead of non-euclidean) but the beer flowed freely. After the first evening, the fatally strong cider ran out, mercifully. Ow, that packed a lot of punch! Scandinavia was very well represented this year, everyone said, and most Swedes tended to clump together and make a splash. There were snippets of comments here and there during the weekend, with the word "Scandinavians" in them. Hmmm...
Now I know what a Beeblebear is, what a steampunk megaphone looks (and sounds) like, and how to navigate non-euclidean space. The only disappointment was that there wasn't even one Dalek to be seen in the dealers' room, or even in the airport toy shop! Still, I got a big box of Jelly Babies going home.
Bring on the next con!
