Tentative Minicon Schedule

[mrissa]

The Minicon tentative schedule is up, and here is where I appear on it (also who else is appearing on it, on the theory that picking your panel attendance by one member is silly):

Friday evening 5:30-6:30 Atrium 6, Panel: Does SF Have a Sell-By Date? With dd_b, pnh, Ethan Sommer, and Matt Strait, the latter two of whom may have ljs, but if so I don't know what they are. (Same applies later.)

Friday evening 8:30-9:00 Atrium 2, Reading. I would love to say that all the cool kids will be there, but once again several known cool kids will be somewhere else for sure: it says so on the thingy. I'm just hoping at least one or two of the cool kids will be there, and by "cool kids" what I mean is "warm bodies."

Saturday afternoon 2:30-3:30 Atrium 6, Panel: Transmythic Fantasy. With naomikritzer, Lois McMaster Bujold, and hilarymoonmurph.

Saturday evening 8:30-9:30 wherever: ?hold sleeping beautiful angelic non-screaming godchild, accept compliments on same? (The Minicon schedulers didn't write this down, but I did volunteer.)

Saturday evening 10:00-11:00 Atrium 3, Panel: “Frell, Frack, Feiwu!” A History of SF&F Swearwords. With Lyda Morehouse, Alison Sommer, Kelly Strait, and Kathy Sullivan.

Sunday afternoon 1:00-2:00 Atrium 6, Panel: Hard SF as a Moving Target. With Howard Davidson, Greg Johnson, pnh, and Kelly Strait.

I will not be wearing the hat in the icon. The name of the icon is "borrowed plumage/reflected glory." It is not my hat. Likely I will not be wearing any hat at all. Still, come on out and say hi and heckle ask interesting audience-participation questions if you'll be there.

Comments

[jenett]

Much thanks for the link.

I can tell it is an excellent schedule by the fact there are about 3 things I want to go to scheduled against each other consistently. This is the traditional "AAARGH!"

However, unlike other years, I do not need to worry about being tempted to leave work early to make the first panel I'm interested in, which is a bonus. (I'm expecting to get there around 4:30 on Friday.)

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I suddenly wish I could go to that. Alas. Woe is me.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, registration isn't closed....

[ckd]

Me too. (Well, except for the suddenly part.)

If I'm lucky, I'll get to a con before Readercon. Unlike many Google searchers, though, I'm not feeling lucky.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

oh my god, "a history of sf&f swearwords." HILARIOUS. frelling hilarious. i want a transcript of what goes down at that one.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You want the smegging transcript? You can't HAVE the smegging transcript!

Um. Seriously, I don't know whether you can or not, because I will be too busy being on the panel to take a transcript, but if I find one, I will link it for you, and also I will try to remember so I can give you the funny-bits synopsis when I see you next. Unless it's all funny bits, which is kind of the hope, I suspect.

[jiawen]

I intend to print off a few copies of the Wikipedia list (located on Archive.org, because Wikipedia seems to have deleted the list... can't imagine why) for use at this panel... Would you be interested in being the distributor of such list?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't have a problem with that, sure.

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I'm glad that I'm not visiting on the Minicon weekend, because that's not the purpose of this visit, and yet ... well, Minicon *does* seem awesome. Which is something to keep in mind. After all, there's always next year.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There is always next year. Yes.

And you'd think someone truly considerate might have told you about Minicon being awesome when they had the chance at World Fantasy this year. Oh, wait....

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

Someone truly considerate *did* tell me -- but I didn't listen. I'm a fool, I tell you, a fool!

(Course, the same person also told me that I should really come for a visit, so at least I listen *sometimes*.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Indeed, we do feel that some Karina is better than none.

Every time someone proclaims herself a fool, I think of the bit from Futurama: "I was a fool! A fully justified, prudent fool!"

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm kinda in a con sort of mood, so I keep tossing around the idea of going to Minicon this year. So, you might see me there, depending on how badly my time-off-without-pay a couple of weeks ago affects my bank account ...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, identify yourself if so! I'll be wearing my lj badge with this icon.