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It’s all about the cats: Worldcon 1st part

It’s all about the... towels? - Worldcon 2nd part

It's all about the panels and towels - Worldcon part III


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While most fans are listening to Martin, I skip to the panel about new feminism in sf. I had no idea a new feminism in sf existed. I get there late, just to learn I don’t know any new feminist writer, neither those who are there nor those who are not there. Quite predictably, it’s Judith Clute and Eileen Gunn who have been ( Read more... )

I've just arrived in Milan, where my parents live and where I lived for 33 years.
On the train from Lyon, I took a few nice pictures. You may see them, as always, on my Flickr page, where you will also find one more Worldcon photo.  Well, actually I didn't take it *during* the Worldcon, but, you know... it's all about the towels ;-)

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I have added some photos to my Flickr pages:

Worldcon (some of them you have already seen on this blog)

Turkey (the travel back from Diyarbakir to Istanbul)

I also want to quote something I found thanks to Romenesko newsletter. You can read on Boing Boing:

Black people loot, white people find?



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After all this time, memories are beginning to fade. However, let’s see what turns up.

First of all, I have to add a detail to my former report: French friend Patrick on a mailing list remarked that the subject of the Saturday panel with China Miéville was “Is there too much homoeroticism in fantasy for real homosexuality?”, ( Read more... )

I'm testing an Orb feature I have never used.

It is possible to see the videos on streaming and my pictures directly from my hard disk (not exactly like a peer-to-peer software: you just open a browser page and you can see them without having to download them actually on your pc one by one). But you have to ask first, so that I may put you in my ( Read more... )

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Arriving in the town where the World Science Fiction convention is taking place to hear the bus driver speak like Scotty - especially a few days after James Doohan beamed himself to another, maybe better life - has quite a puzzling effect. You don’t understand a word of what he says, to begin with, and in addition to that, you ( Read more... )