Worldcon participants

[EUOL]

Wear whatever is natural to you.  Even jeans and a nice shirt will separate you from the cosplayers.  I'll often wear slacks, but that's just my style--and the editors tend to dress nicely because they're at work and want to look professional.  A lot of the authors, however, dress very casually.  

As for the program, I never pick what I'm going to go see until the day of.  I'm a 'wait and see' type of guy.

There are some things to keep in mind, however.  The Tor party is Friday night at 8pm, and I can take one person with me to that.  (It opens to the public at 10.)

The SFWA suite goes the entire con, and that's where a lot of authors and editors tend to hang out.  I can bring a guest there too, but I'd only really want to do one at a time.  

[Brenna]

I'd like to go to the SFWA suite at least once, if you'd take me.  I'd love to get a chance to chat with a couple of editors.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yeah, major typo there. I will NOT, repeat NOT be dressing as Neo. (I recently saw Reloaded. What a load of crap!)

I'm not doing anything fannish to my knowledge. I want to build skills as a writer as my secondary goal. The primary one being to meet editors.

So, I'm volunteering for the Tor party. From what I hear from the other participants, I'm closest to having something to send. AM I wrong on that? Do I need to arm wrestle anyone for this privelege?

[EUOL]

Well, that would be a nice place to meet editors--so Brenna, Stacer, and Ookla all have a legitimate claim to wanting to go.  Remember, it's open to all at ten--though most congoers probably won't know about it.  Only those who have an in.  

Anyway, we can talk there--I just thought I'd give you a heads up.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

arm wrestling it is then

[JP Dogberry]

I'm sorry to say that SE has just insulted a Matrix film.

If he stops posting here suddenly, this will be why.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

If it makes you feel better, I only insulted it because, y'know, it sucked horribly.

[EUOL]

Reloded was the best of the three.  Beautiful action sequences.  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

ick no! The action scenes were soem of the worse parts.
Ok, not the action scenes, but the kung fu fights. Everyone of them was so obviously staged. It's like "My turn to punch. Ok, now your turn to punch. Ok, now mechanically dodge while I kick. Yes. now your turn." ugh. I almost turned the chanel during the first one, but decided to give it another chance. And what the heck was that at the end? He's a super hero because he can rewrite code. Hello! No code to rewrite in the real world!

[JP Dogberry]

Of course it looks staged. That was deliberate. See, anyone fighting Neo and Neo himself all have levels of Martial art ability based on the fact that they can rewrite the matrix however they want. Therefore, they can see the attacks coming and such, and Kung Fu works differently.

Besides, when Morpheus weilds and Uzi and Katana at the same time, it was the single most right feeling moment in a film ever.

[stacer]

Well, that would be a nice place to meet editors--so Brenna, Stacer, and Ookla all have a legitimate claim to wanting to go.

...Anyway, we can talk there--I just thought I'd give you a heads up.

Yes, I'd like a chance to meet editors as well, whether at a party or elsewhere. Doesn't really matter.

[EUOL]

Well, by bashing what is obviously the best SF film in recent years, SE is quickly talking himself out of a place at the party, so maybe there will be room for me to take someone else.  

[stacer]

In this matter, I am Switzerland. I haven't seen it. I hope that doesn't take me out of the running altogether!  

[Brenna]

As long as I get to meet editors and have a chance to chat with them, I don't really care where. Though the party would be fun. And, if all else fails, I can always show up at 10.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'm sorry, JP, that justification makes NO sense. None. At all. If they can see the attacks coming, why the heck don't they do more than take their turn to punch? That's silly.

I admit there were some nifty moments, but those kung fu scenes were awful, and someone really needed to point out that there was some foolish plotting going on before, y'know, they filmed it. For example, why don't mahcines use projectile weapons? they gotta throw bombs or they can't attack from a distance? Mount a cannon on the dang thing! i mean, no wonder humans give you such a problem. Here's a variety of sentient beings who would be totally unharmed by nuclear fallout in case of a power plant meltdown, yet they choose to use something that can resist them as a power source instead.

If you wrote something like that, Brandon, you'd realize there were some pretty huge setting holes and correct it. But now I'm supposed to like it because it had a big SFX budget and supposedly asks some rudimentary philosophical questions?

Anyway, I want to go to the party. But as EUOL said, we'll talk about it there.