Janet Chui ([info]marrael) wrote,
@ 2004-06-01 21:24:00
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Con Report In Headlines, Subheads & Pullquotes Only
Polls Show That Janet's Usual Posts Too Long And Draggy

The news from Friday, May 28, 2004:

Politically Incorrect Artist To Design Next Strange Horizons Membership card
Historic Meeting With Susan Marie Groppi
Janet to Jason: "Wow, she's so nice!"

The New Metrosexualism
Men stepping up on their personal grooming:


Chinese Singaporean Digs Nepalese Food
"It's like Indian," said Janet.
"It tastes like chicken," said Celia about the bison dish.

East Clarionites Make Mafia Plans
Resolution made to teach Hannah Mafia ways

Kessel spotted at Toga Party
Respected science-fiction writer takes off his shirt and parties down, to everyone's shock



The news from Saturday, May 29, 2004:

Cruelty to Cheese Curds
'02 Clarionites discover that cheese curds squeak when you bite them

THEY LIED TO US
Untruths Abound at WisCon's Liars's Panel
"When writing about a high-gravity planet, use a condensed font," Scott Westerfeld advised writers

Feminist Convention Turns Into Strip Joint
Bidders Pay Cryer to Remove Shirt At Tiptree Auction

Study Finds Small Asians Most Vulnerable To Alcohol
Janet gets sick after only one cup of white wine and three sips of champagne.

SF Writers Cannot Sing (wait, this is not news)
Bad Music At Ratbastards Party Louder Than Jay Lake's Shirt


The news from Sunday, May 30, 2004:

David Levine Trounces Other Finalists for Campbell Award
2004 Campbell Winner Decided In WWE-style Full-Contact Rock-Paper-Scissors SMACKDOWN

Shirtless Levine in his triumphant moment, with losers Tim Pratt and Jay Lake on the left

Male SF Writer Caught With Hello Kitty Accessory


Bill Maher Crowns Janet Chui (I wish)
Janet gratefully thanks her supporters



It was a great con. I didn't feel like writing a long analysis of it (yet). But I loved meeting everyone whom I hadn't met before: [info]ktempest, [info]haddyr, [info]buymeaclue, Amy Thomson, Andrew Nicolle, Jay Lake, David Levine, Sarah Prineas, Greg van Eekhout, Jenn Reese, Tim Pratt, Heather Shaw, Gwenda Bond, Christopher Rowe, Gavin Grant, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Alan DeNiro,
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Polls Show That Janet's Usual Posts Too Long And Draggy

The news from <U>Friday, May 28, 2004</U>:

<B>Politically Incorrect Artist To Design Next Strange Horizons Membership card</B>
Historic Meeting With Susan Marie Groppi
Janet to Jason: "Wow, she's so nice!"

<B>The New Metrosexualism</B>
Men stepping up on their personal grooming:
<lj-cut text="Picture"> <IMG src="http://www.deadfaeries.com/janet/wiscon28/1822_jaylakehair.jpg"> </lj-cut>

<B>Chinese Singaporean Digs Nepalese Food</B>
"It's like Indian," said Janet.
"It tastes like chicken," said Celia about the bison dish.

<B>East Clarionites Make Mafia Plans</B>
Resolution made to teach Hannah Mafia ways

<B>Kessel spotted at Toga Party</B>
Respected science-fiction writer takes off his shirt and parties down, to everyone's shock
<lj-cut text="Picture"> <IMG src="http://www.deadfaeries.com/janet/wiscon28/1823_olympicgames.jpg"> </lj-cut>


The news from <U>Saturday, May 29, 2004</U>:

<B>Cruelty to Cheese Curds</B>
'02 Clarionites discover that cheese curds squeak when you bite them

<B>THEY LIED TO US</B>
Untruths Abound at WisCon's <I>Liars's Panel</I>
"When writing about a high-gravity planet, use a condensed font," Scott Westerfeld advised writers

<B>Feminist Convention Turns Into Strip Joint</B>
Bidders Pay Cryer to Remove Shirt At Tiptree Auction

<B>Study Finds Small Asians Most Vulnerable To Alcohol</B>
Janet gets sick after only one cup of white wine and three sips of champagne.

<B><STRIKEOUT>SF Writers Cannot Sing</STRIKEOUT></B> (wait, this is not news)
<strikeout>Bad Music At Ratbastards Party Louder Than Jay Lake's Shirt</STRIKEOUT>


The news from <U>Sunday, May 30, 2004</U>:

<B>David Levine Trounces Other Finalists for Campbell Award</B>
2004 Campbell Winner Decided In WWE-style Full-Contact Rock-Paper-Scissors SMACKDOWN
<lj-cut text="Picture"> <IMG src="http://www.deadfaeries.com/janet/wiscon28/1838_smackdown_victory.jpg">
Shirtless Levine in his triumphant moment, with losers Tim Pratt and Jay Lake on the left</lj-cut>

<B>Male SF Writer Caught With Hello Kitty Accessory</B>
<lj-cut text="Picture"> <IMG src="http://www.deadfaeries.com/janet/wiscon28/1843_jasonpirate.jpg"></lj-cut>

<B>Bill Maher Crowns Janet Chui</B> (I wish)
Janet gratefully thanks her supporters
<lj-cut text="Picture"> <IMG src="http://www.deadfaeries.com/janet/wiscon28/1846_politicallyincorrect.jpg"></lj-cut>


It was a great con. I didn't feel like writing a long analysis of it (yet). But I loved meeting everyone whom I hadn't met before: <lj user="ktempest">, <lj user="haddyr">, <lj user="buymeaclue">, Amy Thomson, <A href="http://www.journalscape.com/AndrewN" target="_blank">Andrew Nicolle</A>, <A href="http://www.journalscape.com/jlake" target="_blank">Jay Lake</A>, David Levine, <A href="http://www.journalscape.com/SarahP" target="_blank">Sarah Prineas</A>, <A href="http://www.journalscape.com/greg" target="_blank">Greg van Eekhout</A>, <A href="http://www.journalscape.com/jenn" target="_blank">Jenn Reese</A>, <A href="http://www.journalscape.com/tim" target="_blank">Tim Pratt</A>, <A href="http://www.journalscape.com/heather" target="_blank">Heather Shaw</A>, <A href="http://bondgirl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Gwenda Bond</A>, <A href="http://www.journalscape.com/ChristopherRowe" target="_blank">Christopher Rowe</A>, <A href="http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/notajournal.htm" target="_blank">Gavin Grant</A>, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, <A href="http://ptarmigan.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Alan DeNiro</A>, <A href="http://32degrees.blogspot.com/" target="_blank>Kristin Livdahl</A>, <A href="http://www.barthanderson.com/wordblog/" target="_blank">Barth Anderson</A>, <A href="http://www.chrononaut.org/log/" target="_blank">David Moles</A>, <A href="http://www.journalscape.com/susan" target="_blank">Susan Marie Groppi</A>, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Kat Beyer, Jed Hartman, Karen Meisner, and Ben Rosenbaum....and also everyone else I hadn't seen since Clarion '02.

Some of my posts in the future are probably going to be Clarion East fundraising related.

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[info]rsheslin
2004-06-01 11:39 pm UTC (link)
I've wanted one of the pirate Hello Kitty items for a long time!

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[info]jlundberg
2004-06-02 05:15 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I felt real manly holding that pillow.

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[info]jonhansen
2004-06-02 07:25 am UTC (link)
Didn't the pirate hat help?

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[info]jlundberg
2004-06-02 07:38 am UTC (link)
A little, but it's hard to feel like a tough guy when you're cradling a pillow with Hello Kitty on it.

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Scott McCloud Is My Master
(Anonymous)
2004-06-02 12:11 pm UTC (link)
Hey! It was nice meeting you at WisCon (presuming we hadn't, in fact, met before). And if I had actually had enough room in my brain to map your nametag to your byline in the latest Say!, I would have mentioned that your comic there absolutely rocks

Benjamin Rosenbaum (http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com)

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Re: Scott McCloud Is My Master
[info]marrael
2004-06-02 01:58 pm UTC (link)
Scott McCloud does rock, but E.L. Chen was responsible for that comic in Say.... I would be happy to take credit for that comic with her permission, but alas, mine was the unadorned story called Black Fish. :]

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Re: Scott McCloud Is My Master
(Anonymous)
2004-06-03 06:59 am UTC (link)
OOoooo, how embarassing.

On so many levels. :-/

Now what I should really do is quickly go read your piece so I could say I liked it too, but of course, to add to my abysmal pit of embarrasment, I didn't actually buy Say!, I just read it in the dealer's room, which is how I managed to confuse you and Ms. Chen. (Other than the leaping-to-conclusions-about-asian-women-creators-in-small-zine thing). Sigh.

I'll just go be red and subdued now.

Ben

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Re: Scott McCloud Is My Master
[info]marrael
2004-06-03 11:52 am UTC (link)
You didn't buy Say? Now I will be indignant. I've been telling people to get it, while insisting they didn't need to read it.

Anyway, don't feel too bad about the asian-women thing. :] For a long time I kept mixing asian men up (whatever their field), thus proving Jay Leno's joke that, even to asian people all asians look alike. :P

You're still cool.

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(Anonymous)
2004-06-03 07:21 am UTC (link)
It was lovely to meet you, Janet, though I'm sorry you got hit over the head by the cup of white wine.

I didn't get the "Most Politically Incorrect" award. Was it supposed to be a joke? What am I missing?

SarahP

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[info]marrael
2004-06-03 11:43 am UTC (link)
I didn't quite get the award either, and mulled over it a couple of days. Over the con too, that picture was seemed to be the favorite of anyone who'd seen my display, I would find it hard to believe it was voted out of any mean-spiritedness. If it was, I could have gotten the award because of one vote (who knows?); I actually don't know how many people were voting on these awards.

Trouble is Brewing, I think as most people have figured out, is about the underdog breaking out of the kitchen. I was noticing that (1) most chefs I seem to see are male, even though all the best cooks I know personally are female, and (2) the culinary arts call for some skill with the knife, and (3) fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons and the like) treat all "commoners" (non-adventuring types) as having no skills and therefore not a threat. Once the picture was sketched and the title was dreamt out, this has been the only picture where I had to stop painting periodically because I was giggling so hard.

Was it a painting to bring to WisCon? I thought it was, because it had an woman breaking out the kitchen. I might have been wrong but I certainly don't regret bringing it. :) Some commenters have surmised that it could have been the blood that won the award. I think it was the killer title.

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Smackdown!!!
(Anonymous)
2004-06-03 03:22 pm UTC (link)
Hey, Janet - I am so disappointed I wasn't at the Smackdown - I have been hearing endlessly about it. Would it be ok with you if I borrowed your smackdown image to put on my annotated Hugo award nominees webpage?

http://www.frankwu.com/hugo2004anon.html

Also, is there a webpage where I can see your "Trouble Is Brewing?"

Frank Wu Fwu@frankwu.com

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SMACKDOWN!!!
(Anonymous)
2004-06-05 03:38 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for letting me use your foto - in addition to that one, I have Jay's - plus comments by David Levine and Jay Lake here at my BRAND NEW CAMPBELL AWARD SMACKDOWN page:

http://www.frankwu.com/smackdown.html

Frank Wu

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2007-06-21 07:00 am UTC (link)
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