The Cat is Snoring

[lydamorehouse]

The cat beside me on the couch is snoring and gutting something in her sleep. It's very cute in a predator sort of way.

I meanwhile have been there and back again. By there I mean, of course, the Mall of America, where I have purchased much holiday cheer and met Darth Maul. Well, okay, I met a guy who plays Darth Maul professionally. His name tag said "Matt" and he was feeliing especially pumped today because, according to him, he just come back from having auditioned with LucasFilm and was granted license to be an official Darth Maul at bar mitzvas or company picnics or whatever one might hire a Darth Maul for... After congratulaing him, naturally I asked him if he was going to CONvergence next year. I told him that I was going to be one of the guests of honor. Then I gave him my card.

I may have impressed a Darth Maul impersonator. Although in his hightened state of giddiness it wasn't clear.

Also, I learned that for some people of a certain age, there is only one con in town. When referring to CONvergence, he said to me, "I'll see you at con."

The old fan in me thought, "Wow, Minicon, you totally lost the fan war." I would hazard to say that the CONvergence contingent obliterated them, in fact. This kid has only one con, it's so NOT Minicon. I guess that had been the point -- to make Minicon small again. Well. FTW, Minicon.

In unrelated news, Mason requested that I wake him up with a bear war and a silly song this morning. A "bear war" is where we wrestle while growling. The song I sang to him went something like this:

It is time to rise and shine
Or upon your brains zombies will dine
They are lumbering and they are slow
But they will not give up, you know...

Thank you, thank you very much. I'll be here all week! Don't forget to tip your waiter.

I guess I should go eat a little lunch, as we say here in Minnesota, and tackle a few of those revisions.

Comments

[naomikritzer]

I know a lot of people who refer to Convergence as "Con." Period. Even people who also go to MarsCon (or Minicon, even).

[naomikritzer]

Also, the thing I find sort of hilarious and astonishing in retrospect: I remember a conversation with some old fan (I couldn't tell you which) at Minicon sometime back in which he insisted that all the cons were ultimately doomed, because the sort of fannish connecting that used to happen at cons was now happening over the Internet and Minicon had cut its losses by going from big to small when it did. (Also, we were winning the culture war -- nerds, I mean -- and so the whole "con as opportunity to connect with your tribe" was simply less necessary.)

...

Yeah, he was WRONGER THAN WRONG. We won the culture war and CON IS OUR MARDI GRAS.

[lydamorehouse]

True dat.

I guess all that fan war stuff is still so much a part of my forebrain, but you're so right about all this.

[alirose.livejournal.com]

I know a few other people who go to other cons who call CONvergence just "con". They are bigger, but the whole bit of having CON at the front of the name helps too.

I'm doing a documentary on Minicon. I had my first day of shooting this past weekend and shooting will run through the end of Minicon. I would love to interview you for the documentary.

[lydamorehouse]

You are always welcome too, though I was a late-comer to Minicon. I do remember well that very last BIG one, though.

Do you have a direct email for me? It's lyda.morehouse@gmail.com

[alirose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I will email you soon.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I'm now wondering when/where/how I might hire Darth Maul to do my bidding....

Also, snoring cats are fine couch companions.

[lydamorehouse]

Yeah, I know, right? I spent like twenty minutes trying to think of when I might need an official Darth Maul. I suppose a birthday party, but how awkward would it be if there were no children...?

Although to the Maul impersonator's credit a minute into our conversation he looked at the sets I was buying and asked slyly, "So... are these for you?"

I wanted to say yes, but alas they were not.

[baka-kit.livejournal.com]

It's very cute in a predator sort of way.

That's such an adorable mental image.