Still at Eastercon

[andrewducker]

It's weird seeing Neil Gaiman post from a convention you're at.  Like the crossing of a fictional world and my own.  I'm not entirely sure I believe he's a real person (despite having exchanged a few words with him on five or six occasions).

Today I'm off to work in The Green Room for a couple of hours, and then I'm on a panel on which books make good movies, then I'm free to go to things until 6:00, when I'm moderating "The year's movies in review." which should be entertaining.

I found out last night that I'm _moderating_ the panel Monday called "You're reading it wrong." which has Charles Stross, Tanith Lee and Farah Mendelsohn on it.  Which is going to be slightly nerve-wracking.

Right - shower and breakfast time - with any luck I can see most of China Mieville's guest of honour speech...

Before I go though - interesting article here on how children are badly behaved because their parents aren't, well, parenting. And I suspect the parents aren't doing so because (a) they haven't grown up around many kids and (b) they were badly parented themselves.  Time for a reboot, methinks.

Comments

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

ooh ooh fact - I used to know China about a million years ago when I was in the Socialist Workers' Party in London. He is really really lovely.

I haven't got round to reading his books yet :( my boyfriend says they are amazing. It just was really cool cos you'd speak to him and he'd say 'I'm finishing my novel' or whatever, and then a few months later there he was in the paper winning all awards and that! Awesome fella. He won't remember me or nothin', he used to know lots of people.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

He was the heart throb of the convention with the laaadiez :) Oh those ARMS!

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

I'm very jealous of the Tanith Lee factor. I'd love to talk to her about her (excellent) Blake's 7 episodes.

Have fun!