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Worldcon in L.A.
Sep. 4th, 2006 10:41 pmHere's my belated worldcon report. I caught a small cold at it, so haven't felt inclined to post, but I'm all better now. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
magscanner, alas, is now suffering.)
We drove down Tuesday and got there earlier enough to help Moshe and Lise shop for party supplies. I brought along cut up melons (Galia & Ambrosia) and figs to donate to their party as well. Thanks tokateyule's restaurant research, we had an excellent dinner at Mas Islamic Chinese restaurant where calimac and wild_patience preceded us. There were a surprising number of bid parties already running Tuesday evening.
Met up withmarykaykare and rocketmensch for Wednesday brunch and antique shop browsing in old downtown Orange. We were perplexed by a large number of street banners for 'Irish Street', 'Greek Street', and so on, which bore no relationship to the street names nor the shops on the street. All was explained when I found a flyer advertising Orange's International Fair, taking place Labor Day weekend.
The stand out panel for me was the Glass Armonica demonstration by William Wilde Zeitler and Louise Marley. Louise has written a book by that title (well, Harmonica, in her case) and became friends with William while consulting with him for the book. It's a beautiful instrument with a haunting sound. I was most intrigued to find out that Tchaikovsky originally wrote Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy for the glass armonica. Btw, Ben Franklin's original term was armonica. The 'h' was introduced by the Germans who were very fond of the instrument but couldn't cope with the initial vowel. I bought 2 CDs with which I am very pleased.
The masquerade only had 34 entries, but frankly, I thought it was a good number, about 90 minutes worth. There were some beautiful and innovative costumes, as one would expect. I particularly liked Dancing with the Stars which featured couples such as Barbarella and Zaphod Beeblebrox. It didn't seem to get an award, which puzzles me, unless it was just missed in the reporting. I stayed for the half time show, but had to cover my ears several times (loud AND flat, ouch!). I should have left sooner, but there were occasional sparkles that kept me hoping for more.
The weekend passed in a blur many dinners, many panels, many parties, and many people seen, all too many to list. But I will mention that I was delighted to seerutemple at her first worldcon. And we liked the German restaurant Jagerhaus so well we went back a second time (excellent potato pancakes, spaetzle, and red cabbage, mmmm), the second time with friends George & Sue from Wisconsin (they approved).
On our way back, we stopped to visit Mog, bringing take out food from Canter's as a treat. Yum! Asmagscanner related, we brought her nonfunctional computer back to Lynn & Cheryl to hopefully fix and send back. It would be good to get her back on line so she would be less isolated. Hoping for the best.
Now back to real life. Oh wait, I've been back for a week already. Where has it gone?
magscanner, alas, is now suffering.)We drove down Tuesday and got there earlier enough to help Moshe and Lise shop for party supplies. I brought along cut up melons (Galia & Ambrosia) and figs to donate to their party as well. Thanks to
kateyule's restaurant research, we had an excellent dinner at Mas Islamic Chinese restaurant where calimac and wild_patience preceded us. There were a surprising number of bid parties already running Tuesday evening.Met up with
marykaykare and rocketmensch for Wednesday brunch and antique shop browsing in old downtown Orange. We were perplexed by a large number of street banners for 'Irish Street', 'Greek Street', and so on, which bore no relationship to the street names nor the shops on the street. All was explained when I found a flyer advertising Orange's International Fair, taking place Labor Day weekend.The stand out panel for me was the Glass Armonica demonstration by William Wilde Zeitler and Louise Marley. Louise has written a book by that title (well, Harmonica, in her case) and became friends with William while consulting with him for the book. It's a beautiful instrument with a haunting sound. I was most intrigued to find out that Tchaikovsky originally wrote Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy for the glass armonica. Btw, Ben Franklin's original term was armonica. The 'h' was introduced by the Germans who were very fond of the instrument but couldn't cope with the initial vowel. I bought 2 CDs with which I am very pleased.
The masquerade only had 34 entries, but frankly, I thought it was a good number, about 90 minutes worth. There were some beautiful and innovative costumes, as one would expect. I particularly liked Dancing with the Stars which featured couples such as Barbarella and Zaphod Beeblebrox. It didn't seem to get an award, which puzzles me, unless it was just missed in the reporting. I stayed for the half time show, but had to cover my ears several times (loud AND flat, ouch!). I should have left sooner, but there were occasional sparkles that kept me hoping for more.
The weekend passed in a blur many dinners, many panels, many parties, and many people seen, all too many to list. But I will mention that I was delighted to see
rutemple at her first worldcon. And we liked the German restaurant Jagerhaus so well we went back a second time (excellent potato pancakes, spaetzle, and red cabbage, mmmm), the second time with friends George & Sue from Wisconsin (they approved).On our way back, we stopped to visit Mog, bringing take out food from Canter's as a treat. Yum! As
magscanner related, we brought her nonfunctional computer back to Lynn & Cheryl to hopefully fix and send back. It would be good to get her back on line so she would be less isolated. Hoping for the best.Now back to real life. Oh wait, I've been back for a week already. Where has it gone?
