The Kazoo Awards were held Saturday Afternoon in Westercon's Main function room. Only Steve Savitzky was present to receive his award in person. Winners marked with ( Read more... )

Started Friday with firing up the sound system and waiting to see if the Spoken Word Circle would be a circle or a stage event. Turned out to be a circle, but we provided a wireless mike to pass around. A small crowd formed and did a number of works. I patched my Zoom H2 into the board and recorded it all ( Read more... )

I posted the pictures I took at WesterChord on Flickr. I hope everyone enjoys them

This last weekend I went to ConChord 21 in Woodland Hills. (In the Los Angeles Area.) It was a little smaller than other years, but still was a good convention. I was providing sound and lapisLaz setup and ran the con suite ( Read more... )

I started the day at the Christian service. It was a combined Catholic Episcopalian service. There was a Priest from each church jointly running the service. It worked out fairly well. The one thing that was odd for me was the Lord's Supper. The Episcopalian one did not use unleavened bread. I was not sure if I could take the Catholic Communion, so ( Read more... )

In the morning I went to con-ops to see if my badge was ready. Not yet. It was 9am. Still not there by 10, so I went to the Richard Hescox panel. I have always been a fan of his art. Afterwords back to con-ops and no badge. Waited around a bit and still no badge. Got permission to see the art show badge-less, and wondered around there for a while ( Read more... )

We were invited to provide sound for Baycon's concerts by Alison. Greg and I packed up tons of gear and made the 9.5 hour trip north to the Bay area ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was listening to "A Way With Words" on our local PBS station. A caller called and wanted to know if there was a word for the process of writing new lyrics for songs. The co-host, Grant Barrett, said the only word he was aware of was a term used by science fiction fans, filk ( Read more... )

Posted late, due to not having time to get online. Three of us in the room and only one connection....

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