Sunday I struggled out of bed at 9am (having crawled in at 2:30 and slept poorly), got myself ready, fed, and packed, and headed to my 11am panel "Survey of Funny Songs," which I was moderating. We had a neat discussion about favorite funny songs and places to find funny songs. I had gone through my iPod to find non-filk funny songs to recommend ( Read more... )

After breakfast on Saturday morning, I headed to my reading. I shared the 10am slot with Alexis Latner, which was a really good pairing (at least from my perspective). We were half expecting no audience, and were pretty much planning to chat and catch up with each other's lives, but we actually had two audience members. I gave them their choice ( Read more... )

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While this is not a true story, my husband is a Twitter addict and I have been known to say "Back away from the iPhone ( Read more... )

The filking at FiestaCon was great. The number of filkers was small, but the quality was very good and I got to meet a number of filkers I hadn't known before and hear their stuff. I'm going to miss folks (and I apologize for that - blame it on two very late nights in a row in the filk room) - but filkers at the con included Leslie Fish, Mark ( Read more... )

Chris and I trekked up to Tempe last night for the opening evening of FiestaCon (which is also Westercon 62). With everything so crazy at work over the past month, I hadn't paid attention to who was attending. And OMG! Last night I was in a filk circle with Leslie Fish! How cool is that? (for my non-filk friends who have no idea what this post is ( Read more... )

I love Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series - and tonight this song just started falling in to place - as long as you've read a dust jacket or seen an HBO trailer for True Blood, there shouldn't be any spoilers here ( Read more... )

At quadrivium's Kaffeeklatch at Balticon on Monday, the idea of Cthulhu as a household cleaner product was raised (don't ask how - it's a long story). It was decided we needed a jingle, but one was not forthcoming at the time. As happens with my snarkiest stuff usually, it popped out of the back-brain a while later. Here's my take at a jingle - to the tune ( Read more... )

Slept in again Sunday, although not quite as late. Spent an enjoyable hour at the podcasting and music panel, which focused on ways to integrate music with podcasts and where to find music. Went to part of the Folk Songs for Kids of All Ages, which was part of the kids track and featured Mary Crowell, Gary Ehrlich, and Dave Clement doing round ( Read more... )

Saturday started with me sleeping in til almost 10am - practically unheard of, even if it was somewhere between 1 and 2 AM when I left the filk room. Chris and I walked the half mile to an open air shopping center which has a Panera for a late breakfast. While it is a bit of a pain crossing a VERY large street (something like 5 lanes each way - ( Read more... )