Comments | baxil: First impressions

baxil

First impressions

May 24, 2008 02:30

I've been at BayCon for about 24 hours now. This convention is like an old friend to me. I've been attending for a decade and a half, and I know it inside and out.

But this is the con's first year in the San Jose Santa Clara Convention Center, and that's meant adjusting to some changes.

( Details, details; and context for the fire footnotes )

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Comments 15

kshandra May 24 2008, 14:16:13 UTC

We're in the Santa Clara Convention Center - or more accurately, the Santa Clara Hyatt attached to the CC, with a couple of function spaces bleeding over. The San Jose CC is where ConJose was, and is where Fanime is this weekend.

baxil May 24 2008, 19:47:40 UTC

Fixed. Thanks.

feedle May 24 2008, 23:54:39 UTC

The city is full of con-goers!

I've been riding VTA all morning, and been running into con-folk all day.

I was going to try to head over there, but I didn't get the time. I'm now on my way to the airport...

bossgoji May 25 2008, 00:24:13 UTC

Wait. Catholics? CHARISMATIC CATHOLICS?!

...fdshslkjfhlkds

I'm having flashbacks to sunday mornings spent in the care of my grandmother, listening to a priest rant and rave about the evils of homosexuals and heathens(read: anyone who is not a charismatic Catholic).

...

Give 'em hell, marine. *salute*

lysana May 25 2008, 20:15:57 UTC

One of the perennial guests of BayCon, fr_john, is a Charismatic Catholic. Just as an FYI.

baxil May 25 2008, 22:34:13 UTC

Oh, I'm not too surprised; there's a decently sized (self-identified) Christian fandom base. Context is everything -- it's just the fact of such differently themed conventions being adjacent that counts as a glorious failure.

As far as I'm concerned, any charismatic Catholic who (with full foreknowledge) actively wants to visit Baycon -- just like any other attendee of any other faith -- is more than welcome.

nolly May 27 2008, 08:33:21 UTC

Hmm. I begin to suspect that "charismatic" does not mean what I thought it meant, at least in this context. I'll have to look for a definition of the phrase after I've slept.

antwondotcom May 25 2008, 23:57:34 UTC

While I'm not going to be at BayCon proper, I am a whopping two miles' worth of city streets away. So if you're in dire need of a post-con Rock Band session (or, y'know, lunch, or whatever), hey, don't be a stranger.

roaminrob May 26 2008, 07:15:18 UTC

Careful. You have no idea how much time he's been ferreting away on Rock Band recently.

I never thought I'd actually see someone play "Enter Sandman" on Expert...

antwondotcom May 26 2008, 07:49:14 UTC

Oh, I am emphatically not worried. I have my Expert Guitar 5-stars on Green Grass and High Tides. I have my Expert Vocal gold stars on Tom Sawyer. I am not cowed - and we encourage talented individuals of all stripes to rock along with us! (We're actually holding a mini-con here next month, wherein our all-ringer band is going to see whether we can top the XBOX leaderboards over the course of a single weekend. Good times!)

baxil May 27 2008, 18:59:58 UTC

Pbpbpbpbpbpbttttt!

(practices some more so he can try taking it on on Hard)

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paka May 28 2008, 23:03:49 UTC

I blundered into their area of the convention center while exploring the con space, and I felt just as awkward wandering through their land of Sunday suits as they must have felt with a jackal-eared man in black passing through

Yeah, except, Bax? You're not trying to convert them to being sci-fi fans. You aren't trying to corrupt the US government utterly into giving you special favors just because you're Otherkin. You don't hold honestly and sincerely that anyone who doesn't accept that you're a dragon is some sort of horrible person who's going to suffer eternally.

THESE people however work that way. They deserve any freaking out they get.