Worldcon Day One! (Thursday) Chicon 2012

Worldcon Day One! (Thursday)

We actually arrived here Wednesday, but fairly late at night, so didn’t do anything but go up to the room and not emerge until this morning.

Today, however was non-stop action! (As cons like this often are.) Included in this post: recommendations of GLBT-inclusive sf/f books & media. But it’s at the end.

First order of business was move into our party suite. We got up early so we could move over there and register before my 12 noon panel. Managed to accomplish both those things and then get to the panel only a mere five minutes late after trying to figure out the odd arrangement of towers, elevators, and escalators in this hotel.

First panel was one I suggested myself, so therefore I got to moderate it: “We’re here, we’re queer…. are we used to it?”

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Mirrored from blog.ceciliatan.com.

Worldcon Day Two! (Friday)

Today I spent almost no time at the con in the daytime since that was spent on my first ever trip to Wrigley Field. Separate writeup coming to my baseball blog later about that trip.

Got back to the hotel around 6pm, and the evening’s order of business was the Hogwarts Alumni Reunion party at 8:30pm.

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Mirrored from blog.ceciliatan.com.

Liner Note #21 and WeSeWriMo wrapup!

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

I promised two Liner Notes this month for Web Serial Writing Month. August just ended, so here’s the second and final one! In September we’re going back to two posts per week (Tuesday/Thursday), unless donations within a week surpass $50, in which case a Saturday post would be triggered.

Here are some ruminations.

Queer History, Music History, and Personal History
At the time I started writing Daron’s Guitar Chronicles I didn’t know that we were in something of a drought at the time. Here’s what I mean by that. Growing up queer (I’m bisexual) in the suburbs of New Jersey meant growing up in a world where there was no one else visibly like me.

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