Happy birthday, eleanor

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The hotel block closes today (July 6). Reserve one of the remaining rooms at the convention rate.

Hugo voting closes tomorrow (July 7). Your ballot (electronic or hard copy) must be received in Seattle no later than midnight PDT on July 7. You must be a Denvention member to vote and you must have your PIN to vote online.

 I have two memberships for sale, I would like to sell both together, via paypal. I paid $175 each but will sell both for $300. We have a work conflict and cannot attend. Let me know.

Long time Science Fiction fan Bruce Dane had an accident June 2 which has left him paralyzed from the neck down. He's had surgery on his neck and we are hoping for a lot of recovery, but it will be a lot of work and a long haul to get there. He is currently in ICU at Porter Hospital in Denver.

There will be a benefit concert on July 19th to help raise money for medical and future living expenses. The concert is being held at Soda Springs park in Manitou Springs Co. If you can't make it and would like to donate you may go to http://www.boomerbox.com .We'd love to see you there.

I will answer what questions I can. I am no longer on the newsgroup RASFF; someone may wish to post this information there as well.

Facebook fears that insufficient self-identification by gender might be confusing.

Thanx to firecat

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I have a hotel room available at the Crowne Plaza.  Non-smoking for five nights.  Check-In: Wed 6 Aug 2008 at 04:00 PM & Check-Out: Mon 11 Aug 2008 at 12:00 PM.  $129 a night.  Is anyone interested in taking this off my hands?

Current Location: home
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: David by Nellie Mckay

Life just doesn't play fair sometimes and now I can't go.

Taking bids up to July 13th, Cash or barter for interesting stuff.
I'm into steampunk and hard SF.

Attending Membership only.

Living doll.

Thanx to rmjwell.

Tags: literalized metaphor

This is a piece of fiction based on banana_cave's userpic:


TITLE: Raiden is Jack is Raiden
RATING: PG
WORDS: 137
NOTES: The character pictured is from 'Metal Gear Solid', but seeing as I am completely oblivious to the workings of MGS, this piece cannot be said to bear any relation to MSG.

( Raiden is Jack is Raiden )

Tags: exercise result
Current Mood: pensive

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Hugo Award ballots must be received by Midnight, Pacific Daylight Time, on July 7. Denvention 3 members are eligible - do your online voting soon and beat the rush. The imminent deadline also means that about a month from now another audience of nominees will be sweating out the results. Diana and I will be there.

I said in “Silverberg and Resnick: That’s Entertainment!” in File 770 #153 that I’m no fan of the Hugo-Ceremony-as-100-Yard-Dash. The ceremony’s purpose is to honor the best in our field, and to me the clock is not the tool to measure how well that’s done. But I’d agree that some of the shortest ones have been great fun.

When the fans who love speedy Hugo Ceremonies start honoring people on a Mount Rushmore for toastmasters, Marta Randall will be right up there in Washington’s place. She always did an admirable job of making haste as entertainingly as possible. And no wonder people were moving. The funniest moment of the fast-moving 1982 Hugos came when she goosed presenter Bob Tucker as he left the stage. Marta’s 90-minute 1982 Hugo Ceremony set a record unequalled for 23 years.

Chicago brought her back for 1991 and the Hugos sped by in 100 minutes, a brisk pace if not a record. Tucker presented again and when he started to leave the stage covered his butt with both hands. But Marta came over, gave him a big hug, and winked to the audience, “Now I know why he was kicked out of the Garden of Eden.”

Only in 2005 did Paul McCauley and Kim Newman turn in the second 90-minute performance with Interaction’s Hugo Ceremony.

All people who yelp like they’re being tortured when the Hugos last two hours should pay silent tribute when in the presence of anyone who endured the 1968 Worldcon banquet. It was a Toastmaster Bob Silverberg’s baptism of fire — a baptism of live steam for everyone else. Fans endured dinner and speeches in 95-degree heat, in an unventilated ballroom without air conditioning, for five hours and fifteen minutes before the first Hugo was presented. As Mike Resnick recalled in File 770:100:

[At 8:00 p.m.] Phil Farmer got up to give his speech…. [When] he paused for a drink of water more than 2 hours into it, we all gave him a standing ovation in hope it would convince him he was through. It didn’t. He finished after 10:30. Time for the Hugos, right? Wrong. Randy Garrett gets up, takes the microphone away from Toastmaster Bob Silverberg, and sings about 50 verses of ‘Three Brave Hearts and Three Bold Lions.’ Finally, approaching 11:15, Silverberg gets up to hand out the Hugos.