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Penguicon and Beyond
Monday, May 1st, 2006 06:53 pmAs mentioned elsewhere, we had a wonderful good time at Penguicon 4.0. The con folk were good to us; we were busy enough, but not too busy. There was coffee and ice cream, belly dancers and the Chaos Machine -- really, what was not to like?
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madame_the_chef was the perfect GoH Liaison; we had only to lay a problem at her feet to see it solved. Not only that, but she was generous with her hedgehogs. Coco was everything that was charming, despite being woken up at what was, for her, an unghodly hour to make nice to the strange people from Maine, though her partner -- Reggie? -- chose to sleep through our visit, which was perfectly understandable. I have now held a hedgehog, fed hedgehog cookies and heard the Snuffle of Doom. Heady stuff -- and that was before the con.
After the con, Madame and daughter Claire introduced us to the joys of Hoof and Mouth. Fortunately, this is a four-handed card game, else no writing at all would be happening here at the Cat Farm...
At the con, we saw and talked to manymany friends -- Tom and Diane Peters;wdonohue; star_gazersusan; origamilady; magda_vogelsang; adina_atl; Bill and Carol Boyke, the Witches, and Bob the Bearded Dragon; John Scalzi, Karl Schroeder, Matthew Keaton among them.
High points of the con were the Friends of Liad Breakfast, where I made the acquaintance of Bob the Bearded Dragon -- who has quite a way with a red grape -- and the Stuffed Animal Tea Party. The latter event, originally scheduled for the con suite, far outgrew those quarters and was relocated to the lobby restaurant. Kudos to the Looneys for the idea, which I do believe I'll /l/i/f/t borrow, the next timekinzel and I are GoHs.
To sum up -- if you ever have a chance to attend Penguicon, take it!
For those of you who are interested in details, photos, and podcats demonstrating what a great weekend was had by all, I direct your attention to the following:
"Tea Parties in SF"
Liquid Nitrogen science project!
Penguicon 4.0 photo album
And, to get you started, a picture of the Stuffed Animal Tea, courtesy ofmatt_arnold
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest...
Progress on the Book Without a Name
madame_the_chef was the perfect GoH Liaison; we had only to lay a problem at her feet to see it solved. Not only that, but she was generous with her hedgehogs. Coco was everything that was charming, despite being woken up at what was, for her, an unghodly hour to make nice to the strange people from Maine, though her partner -- Reggie? -- chose to sleep through our visit, which was perfectly understandable. I have now held a hedgehog, fed hedgehog cookies and heard the Snuffle of Doom. Heady stuff -- and that was before the con.After the con, Madame and daughter Claire introduced us to the joys of Hoof and Mouth. Fortunately, this is a four-handed card game, else no writing at all would be happening here at the Cat Farm...
At the con, we saw and talked to manymany friends -- Tom and Diane Peters;
wdonohue; star_gazersusan; origamilady; magda_vogelsang; adina_atl; Bill and Carol Boyke, the Witches, and Bob the Bearded Dragon; John Scalzi, Karl Schroeder, Matthew Keaton among them.High points of the con were the Friends of Liad Breakfast, where I made the acquaintance of Bob the Bearded Dragon -- who has quite a way with a red grape -- and the Stuffed Animal Tea Party. The latter event, originally scheduled for the con suite, far outgrew those quarters and was relocated to the lobby restaurant. Kudos to the Looneys for the idea, which I do believe I'll /l/i/f/t borrow, the next time
kinzel and I are GoHs.To sum up -- if you ever have a chance to attend Penguicon, take it!
For those of you who are interested in details, photos, and podcats demonstrating what a great weekend was had by all, I direct your attention to the following:
"Tea Parties in SF"
Liquid Nitrogen science project!
Penguicon 4.0 photo album
And, to get you started, a picture of the Stuffed Animal Tea, courtesy of
matt_arnoldMeanwhile, in another part of the forest...
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