Reno, Days 3 and 4
Aug. 20th, 2011 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaOn Friday, I wore Ashura. A few people took my picture, and a few more commented. I think they probably thought I was a Generic Elf, but that's ok. Saw the art show displays, went to a talk on Urban vs Urbane Fantasy, one about travelling with horses, an interview with Tricky Pixie, tried to sign up for a small, very limited attendance "panel" with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gailcarriger but it filled up first of all the 24 authors they were signing up for this morning, so I got a reserve slot :( Eating tiems, then a couple more panels on the romance of sci-fi before it was romantic (uhm. Essentially, why was steampunk sci-fi fiction popular when it was contemporary) - the guy moderating this panel had a VERY loud voice and continued to speak loudly into the mic, while one of the panelists had a very quiet droning voice even when miked; I wound up playing Angry Birds to keep myself awake - and then one on elements of romance in speculative fiction. Came back to the room to putz about on the internet and we went out for dinner after the sun went down, and then I read for a few hours.
Today, I went down early to see if I could get into that limited-attendance "panel" and I could not, so I went to see a short (45min) independent Star Wars film which was rather predictable, but I couldn't fault anything else about it (well I could, but that would hardly be fair since it was independent and it was actually quite good), and then went to see 2/3 of Tricky Pixie and then Vixy and Tony in concerts back to back to back. It wound up being kind of a big love-fest between them all XD I enjoyed it immensely. I was very happy we ended up seated on the side of the cello player, Betsy, because I love cello, and she plays it amazingly, and it was wonderful to hear almost three hours of fantastic cello lines. After that it was time for a quick, final jaunt through the dealer's hall since we're heading out to Carson City tomorrow and will miss pretty much everything (including autographs of the one author I actually might have cared about to stand in line for) and then a still-small-but-allowed-larger-attendance "panel" with the same author I missed earlier. (It wound up being 15-ish people, where the morning session was a strict 9) She ran it in the same fashion, kind of an open-table discussion where we could ask anything we wanted and she'd reply as best as she could (keeping in mind some of us weren't caught up on the series, and to avoid spoilers as best as possible. I only noticed one, but I already had a stroooong suspicion about that without having read the book yet, so for me at least it wasn't a big deal). And then I decided that I'd had enough of the con and my corset, so here I am, writing this instead ;)
I'm planning on going to the pub for dinner again; the chicken strips were AMAZINGLY delicious. If you're ever in Reno, Foley's Irish pub is highly recommended by locals and this tourist alike ;)
gailcarriger but it filled up first of all the 24 authors they were signing up for this morning, so I got a reserve slot :( Eating tiems, then a couple more panels on the romance of sci-fi before it was romantic (uhm. Essentially, why was steampunk sci-fi fiction popular when it was contemporary) - the guy moderating this panel had a VERY loud voice and continued to speak loudly into the mic, while one of the panelists had a very quiet droning voice even when miked; I wound up playing Angry Birds to keep myself awake - and then one on elements of romance in speculative fiction. Came back to the room to putz about on the internet and we went out for dinner after the sun went down, and then I read for a few hours.Today, I went down early to see if I could get into that limited-attendance "panel" and I could not, so I went to see a short (45min) independent Star Wars film which was rather predictable, but I couldn't fault anything else about it (well I could, but that would hardly be fair since it was independent and it was actually quite good), and then went to see 2/3 of Tricky Pixie and then Vixy and Tony in concerts back to back to back. It wound up being kind of a big love-fest between them all XD I enjoyed it immensely. I was very happy we ended up seated on the side of the cello player, Betsy, because I love cello, and she plays it amazingly, and it was wonderful to hear almost three hours of fantastic cello lines. After that it was time for a quick, final jaunt through the dealer's hall since we're heading out to Carson City tomorrow and will miss pretty much everything (including autographs of the one author I actually might have cared about to stand in line for) and then a still-small-but-allowed-larger-attendance "panel" with the same author I missed earlier. (It wound up being 15-ish people, where the morning session was a strict 9) She ran it in the same fashion, kind of an open-table discussion where we could ask anything we wanted and she'd reply as best as she could (keeping in mind some of us weren't caught up on the series, and to avoid spoilers as best as possible. I only noticed one, but I already had a stroooong suspicion about that without having read the book yet, so for me at least it wasn't a big deal). And then I decided that I'd had enough of the con and my corset, so here I am, writing this instead ;)
I'm planning on going to the pub for dinner again; the chicken strips were AMAZINGLY delicious. If you're ever in Reno, Foley's Irish pub is highly recommended by locals and this tourist alike ;)
