1) Had a brilliant time in the British Museum on Friday afternoon with badgerbag 2) Had a great time at my brother's where I discovered that my 15-year old niece LIKES the Stephanie Meyers books (and has in fact read them twice!). I told her I'd have to disinherit her and she asked if I'd like to sneer at the rest of her book collection first. Nice response! It's good to see she is developing...

badgerbag called this a "totally accurate fashion meme!", but I have to say, I have my doubts... Flattering, though. Your result for The Fashion Style Test... Catwalk God(ess) [Flamboyant Original Deliberate Sexy] You know fashion inside out but you're far from being its slave. To you fashion is what you decide to wear. You've got great, if unconventional, taste and plenty...

Fairly accurate, though my Hawaiian shirts don't really fit any of the questions; apparently they are outside the ken of the fashionista who made the quiz. Your result for The Fashion Style Test... Librarian 37% Flamboyance, 45% Originality, 42% Deliberateness, 30% Sexiness [Tasteful Conventional Random Prissy] You don't pay too much attention to fashion and far be it from you to spend...

Thanks to badgerbag a video of humans punching aliens . It's got quite a bit of talky-face which is usually my definition of a failed video, but on the other hand - it's got humans punching aliens. Over and over again. You know - Star Trek, Doctor Who, Farscape, Galaxy Quest, BSG. Punching the alien.

Ok, so I've been putting some thought into this, now that my life is settling down somewhat, and I've mostly got my voice back. Most of these are going to require some thought and research on my part, as well as potential panelists: Someone requested a riff on the Women in Hard SF panel done at Wiscon this year and provided a link: http://badgerbag.livejournal.com/119313.html I haven't had a chance...

The WisCon 32 panel report: Women and Hard SF . I wish the discussion was longer. Hopefully they'll have something like this at Norwescon.

include (i.e. I ran into a lot of people, and I have a terrible memory. If I do not mention you as being in a particular place or on a particular panel, I apologize -- there was just too much stuff and not enough rest this weekend to keep it all in my head. ;)) Pre-Con And Thursday I have learned a couple of things.   First: Try and get your con duties done as far ahead of the con as possible...

I remember remarking to someone at WisCon that despite there being some panels on some pretty controversial topics, WisCon was remarkably drama free. "Of course," I added, "the drama won't really start until people get home and start blogging about it." I never anticipated this particular version of drama. The Angry Black Woman has a good summary . Alas, A Blog also has a good post . The short version...

Mallorie has gone home . The crying-together will be this weekend…and at Festival of Souls…and at DOM 2009, when we gather for our ninth year one Founder short…and probably for long in the future. I don’t have tales of Mallorie to tell; those are for those who knew her best and knew her well. I was privileged to work with her. I was privileged to know her. I am privileged to cry together with...

Sigo esta tarde las reacciones al post de hypersurfaces (alias Zathlazip) en Something Awful*. A report on an anti-fat, anti-trans Wiscon report Trolls being trolled Two Quotes on the WisCon Drama El que una persona dentro de fandom no solo traiciono el espíritu de la con, pero que se echo ella misma de cabeza se me hace bastante bizarro. ¿Que pensó ella sucedería? ¿Que le iban a...