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Well, more of a pub than a restaurant, and as much of a queer club and theater as a pub. When we have an Outer Alliance meet-up with the local community (which I am sure we will), it will be in the Marlborough, because that is where such things happen in Brighton.

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Finncon has its own Tumblr feed, which is full of great pictures of the event. Here are a few.

Tony Stark shows off his armor


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This year’s Finncon masquerade ran pretty much flawlessly. The only real issue was the lack of entries. We were supposed to have 9, but Kisu dislocated her knee during the day and was in hospital having it checked out when she was supposed to be on stage. The only comment I’ ( Read more... )

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Our local shopping center has a few empty stores these days, but they seem to be trying to make use of them. Today I found an exhibition of costume art put on by students from a local college. As far as I can make out, the brief was to design dresses influenced by nature, ( Read more... )

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Worldcon is certainly getting in the news this year. As well as the whole UStream fiasco, I spotted this post on Mashable highlighting some of the best costumes see at the convention. It includes the Masquerade winner, and to save you from having to click through, here she ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was very busy. I ended up eating lunch at 3:00pm while I was updating the Translation Awards website, and didn’t get back to my apartment until after midnight. I’ll write a proper report later, but for now I’d like to mention the masquerade. The entry we picked as ( Read more... )

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One of the jobs I have been working through this weekend is processing the photos that Kevin took while he was over here at Eastercon. My apologies for him for having taken so long. Hopefully his mom, sister and nephew can get to see them now.

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I have done panels, had meetings, supported Nalo and Richard, and MC’d the masquerade. I am still alive. This is a miracle.

My feet beg to disagree about the “alive” thing.

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This morning I did the meeting with the literary agency and discovered that the main staircase at this hotel is drunk. If you want to know what that’s like, imagine taking a corner in a car when the road has adverse camber. Now imagine walking up a staircase that does a ( Read more... )

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It is busy, busy, busy around here, which is why there has not been much blogging. I did, however, discover something neat on Twitter this morning. It is a blog called Multiculturalism for Steampunk, which is quite wondrous enough in its own right. And the article that got ( Read more... )