ZombieCon timeline, and other waffle.
Bah, I'm so not going to have time to write up a ZombieCon report this week.
Hmm, maybe I should take time next week and do a proper one and offer it to some fanzines. Or finish up my write up of True Names and G.E.B., and the Cthulhu hat knitting pattern (including lessons learned, rather than the actual one), and the Fan Art for purplecthulhu's story, and print my own' zine. Hmm. Probably wouldn't happen.
Some other LJ posts on ZombieCon 1, 2, 3, and 4. Am I missing any?
I've got about 180 photos and 10 videos to sort through!
Still too busy to write detailed, what I've been up to things. ZombieCon last weekend. Last minute trip to south coast on Monday. A forgotten will-fix-PC-for-food / catch-up on Tuesday. Curry last night. Bosses birthday drinks tonight, probably followed by a trip to the Cock. A Pratchett signing on Saturday (I've given up on the idea of of going to Brighton). Games afternoon on Sunday.
ZombieCon timeline or, just the blatantly silly panels.
Friday
Drive around the Walsall area for half an hour looking for hotel, after missing sign owing to giant puddle. Begin to wonder if Google Maps was right, and the demolished building was the Quality hotel.
Arrive.
Fail to find main entrance as is disguised as a health club.
Shlep electronics into main hall.
Check in.
Shlep in a skeleton, and a grenade crate, and other miscellany from Elvis's car.
Tape ribbons to the main hall roof.
Check out welcome pack. Find sex scene within 30 seconds of opening enclosed book :)
Sit down with Scottish fans whose names escape me (sorry!) I love how welcoming everyone is at conventions.
"Opening Ceremony" 19:00. Featuring a zombie eating the guts out of a con member, and rules for a card game no-one played.
Due to a photocopy cut off, you were supposed to yell"Human defer
yourself!"
Play hop on Stef's and James's face game. Get told to hang onto string (between games) so hang on to it all weekend,
"Prom Night" Disco 21.00.
Mis-read the dress-to-impress instructions and did (blood free) zombie with torn prom clothes.
"Re-Animating the Dead" 00:30. I still have the scars from dougs's violet wand.
Lend adelheid a towel. What an unhoopy frood she is.
Saturday
Breakie. Bacon and Eggs, just the way Mango, hates them.
Find little scars from the violot wand, and an insect bite. I wasn't the only one bitten that night.
"Choreography of the Dead" 10:00 Zombie Ed helps us get our shamble on.
11:00 General hanging about.
12:00 Stuart Conran "Making Up The Dead". Great tips on how to make Elvis look dead
"Teledu of the Dead" 14:00. Team "Argh Dammit" make a resounding comeback from minus 2 to positive 6. But still lose spectacularly.
johannes-d and johncoxon make a powerful team.
15:00 "Time Travel Talk". I controlled spacetime and was given a lollipop by emmajking.
"Kids Party" 16:00 So. Much. Sugar!!!
At some point run into wildfyre who's very disinterested in Zombies, so is just hanging out in the bar. I like this idea, so may do Aetherica despite ambivalence towards fantasy. major-clanger informs me this is called a relax-a-con.
Charlie Adlard draws me zombie scientist. Must start buying Walking Dead comic.
hawkida Gets a very punk half a shaved head!
Buffet dinner with Timmy, emmajking, and adelheid.
Apply "military survivor" make up
Salute coach load of pensioners, who seem unfazed by the undead.
"Dead Can't Dance" 20:00
I can't wait to see darth_tigger's and tregenza's perfect day video.
Tear trousers accidentally.
Rip hole in knee (trouser, and flesh) doing an air guitar slide to Ghostbusters.
Sit down at Rankin's table. Get bought a B52, and argue with Raygun if it was a Slippery Nipple.
Sunday
Breakie, and check out.
10:00 "I'm a survivor - get me out of here"
Despite Stern Librarian Dave's unwillingness to fling small children at zombies, and pilot's inability to control the tiny flying death trap, I survive!
11:00 "Working with the Dead"
Discussions of flesh eating bacteria aside, the most important thing learned was that coroners have powers Judges only dream of. Quincy remains my hero.
12:15 "Zomb-Olympics"
These were definitely not RAGE infected zombies :)
13:30 "Elbows Deep in Guts"
Stuart Conran makes intestines live on stage. And shows us how some clever special effects are done.
Al Davison does a Zombie caricature of me.
16:00 "Traumatizing Children with Cartoons".
Social YouTube.
Buy Turkey Sandwich from bar. Not too bad.
17:00 "Mall Mania"
Violence! Turned from Zombies vrs Bikers, into Sumo Gladiators, with giant cardboard armour and swords. jamesb was the undisputed champion. Destroying several home made swords, and con members.
(I fell on my keys)
18:00 "Closing Ceremony and Raffle"
I win the very last prize in the raffle :)
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And another report
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Forgot to add that the fire alarm sounded once each day, driving all us zombies out into the daylight.
Friday = Smoke machine
Saturday = Very steamy shower
Sunday's cause, unknown.
{Edit 3}
Con report from an infrequent conventioneer.