{"id":2894,"date":"2005-05-30T03:53:44","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T10:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/05\/30\/2894.html"},"modified":"2005-05-30T03:53:44","modified_gmt":"2005-05-30T10:53:44","slug":"more-wiscon-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/05\/30\/more-wiscon-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"More Wiscon notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I'm enjoying seeing the wiscon<\/a> reports at Technorati, even though it turns out a lot of people's entries aren't showing up there.<\/p>\n

I'm especially enjoying Badgerbag<\/a> (can I say her real name here? Not sure); see, for example, her post on the necessity of a Feminism for Dummies<\/a> book. Though I disagree with her assessment of Robin McKinley's Guest-of-Honor speech<\/a>; I thought it was the kind of speech that started out sounding a little disorganized but gradually resolved into being more or less the speech that she said it wasn't going to be; I imagine that's a known rhetorical device<\/a> (somewhat similar to paralipsis).<\/p>\n

A few other notes while I'm here:<\/p>\n

I've been attending a lot more panels than usual this con. Saturday I went to the second half or so of \"Science Fiction and the Oversimplification of Difference\"; it wasn't a superbly brilliant panel that changed the way I think about life, but it was quite good, and rejuvenated my faith in WisCon panels. The discussion was articulate and nuanced; good stuff. Also, attending that let me miss the \"Why Men Hate Sex<\/a>\" panel, which from later reports I suspect I wouldn't have enjoyed much.<\/p>\n

Had lunch and a long and really good conversation with Karen M. Attended the Emshwiller\/Link\/Palwick\/Rich reading; when that ended early, wandered into the end of Susan and Heather's \"The Stack Heel and Modern Feminism\" panel. Attended part of \"Women and the Draft,\" but got restless. I think at some point I ended up wandering through the art show, but I could be wrong. Dinner with various folks; helped Mary Anne get party supplies; then the Tiptree auction; then another reading: Haddayr<\/a>, Dora<\/a>, Karen M, and Maureen McHugh<\/a>. As usual, really enjoyed the readings. And as a special bonus, got to meet Maureen McHugh afterward; I've been admiring her work for years, but I don't think I had ever even seen her in person.<\/p>\n

Sunday I had lunch with Sarah P<\/a> and Haddayr and Kat<\/a>, plus a couple of other people whose names I'm blanking on. Ben R<\/a> joined us partway through. At 1:00, there were at least three items I really wanted to attend: the interstitiality panel Mary Anne was on; the YA reading by Jenn<\/a>, Greg<\/a>, Tim<\/a>, and Heather<\/a>; and the \"WisCon, Tolerance, and Acceptance of Difference\" panel, featuring Debbie N and Susan G.<\/p>\n

After a fair bit of fretting, finally opted for the last. I think it was the right choice, but I was sad to miss the reading, especially when I later heard that it had been thoroughly excellent. (As one might expect.)<\/p>\n

The panel was, I thought, quite good, and ably moderated by Debbie. Susan also said lots of good stuff, as did many members of the audience. I'll probably have quite a bit more to say about it eventually; I took copious notes. But no way am I awake enough to make them coherent right now.<\/p>\n

After the panel, I sadly missed this year's Campbell Smackdown<\/a>, in which the two current Campbell nominees who were at WisCon engaged in a duel featuring cream pies. Follow the link to see a photo of the result. Note that Ben (in the middle) was the referee.<\/p>\n

After that came the SH tea party, fun as usual (though it was scheduled opposite two readings I'd have liked to have attended, not to mention two panels I was originally going to be on, but that's pretty much inevitable). Two different people showed me their underwear in the space of about five minutes, which is a bit more exciting than the tea parties usually get.<\/p>\n

Dinner with Mary Anne; more party-supply fetching; the Dessert Salon; aforementioned Guest of Honor speeches; another reading (this one featuring Ms. Bond<\/a>, Ms. Larbalestier<\/a>, Ms. Wilce, and Mr. Westerfeld) rounded out the programming portion of the evening for me.<\/p>\n

I quickly discovered that I wasn't up for the noise level and number of people at the parties. Came back to my room; a dozen friends came by and we all sat and talked for quite a while, which is why I'm still awake at nearly 4 a.m.<\/p>\n

But not for much longer. It's definitely time for me to go to sleep.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow: much bleary farewell-taking, no doubt, followed eventually by a long drive to Chicago.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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