Friday was spring break, so Sherwood Forest Faire was ope...
Friday was spring break, so Sherwood Forest Faire was open and we went again with a friend. Great day, great time. David Arkenstone did a small concert out there, though I think I liked Circa Paleo better. No ent showed up this time. The food was really good, and I had steak-on-a-stick at the steak-on-a-stick place (which actually cooks the steak to order, so it smells wonderful and always has people waiting in front of it) and hummus at the Jerusalem Cafe. Yummy.
Neat image from CoolVibe: The Marsh Tree
Found this link on Black Gate Magazine: NetherCraft Castles and tombs for your back yard.
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On the Night Bazaar, Anton Strout has a guest post about conventions: People came to hear us, spent their time and money getting to us, so I like to be as professional as I can when I'm asked to speak or moderate. I prepare for whatever the topic at hand is and at the center of that, I try to keep in mind my own experience as an attendee myself.
I love SF/F conventions, too. I went to my first one when I was in high school (I still have no idea how I managed to talk my parents into that. Seriously, it was practically a miracle), worked on cons all through college, and still would go to them for fun if I wasn't a guest. As a guest on programming, you do have a responsibility to try to be entertaining, informative, and hopefully fun. People paid to get in there and you're part of the show, and it can be a lot of work. (If you're a teacher or have ever done public speaking you know how much energy it takes to talk to an audience for that length of time.) It's also a privilege and not a right; if someone doesn't enjoy cons and is only going to promote their books, I think the audience can usually tell.
And speaking of cons, AggieCon 42 is coming up next weekend. (This is the con I worked on in college; I was chairman of AggieCon 17.)
Neat image from CoolVibe: The Marsh Tree
Found this link on Black Gate Magazine: NetherCraft Castles and tombs for your back yard.
Living Social is matching your $5.00 Red Cross donation for Japan
On the Night Bazaar, Anton Strout has a guest post about conventions: People came to hear us, spent their time and money getting to us, so I like to be as professional as I can when I'm asked to speak or moderate. I prepare for whatever the topic at hand is and at the center of that, I try to keep in mind my own experience as an attendee myself.
I love SF/F conventions, too. I went to my first one when I was in high school (I still have no idea how I managed to talk my parents into that. Seriously, it was practically a miracle), worked on cons all through college, and still would go to them for fun if I wasn't a guest. As a guest on programming, you do have a responsibility to try to be entertaining, informative, and hopefully fun. People paid to get in there and you're part of the show, and it can be a lot of work. (If you're a teacher or have ever done public speaking you know how much energy it takes to talk to an audience for that length of time.) It's also a privilege and not a right; if someone doesn't enjoy cons and is only going to promote their books, I think the audience can usually tell.
And speaking of cons, AggieCon 42 is coming up next weekend. (This is the con I worked on in college; I was chairman of AggieCon 17.)
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