the Schedule Arisia

in discussion with one of my first-pass readers yesterday:
evilmeer: what's the point of killing someone you don't care about?
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and on that note, I present to you my schedule for my GoH stint at Arisia next weekend (note: all panel descriptions are mine own, not the official convention blurbs).

Fri 7:00 PM The Blood Debate
(what would you give to your fellow human? Why? Why not?)
Fri 9:00 PM F=Fandom, P=Politics,V= Vendetta
(listen to us call our esteemed co-panelists names. Or not)
Sat 11:00 AM Crafting a Story, Criss-crossing Genres (YA)
(take a spaceman, a dragon, a murder, and a romance. Blend carefully.)
Sat 1:00 PM Trend? What Trend?
(writing what you love. writing what's popular. the dangers of both)
Sat 2:00 PM Publishing 101
(come hear all the stupid mistakes we made so you don't have to)
Sat 4:00 PM Criss-Crossing Genres
(same as above, but with Adult Content)
Sat 5:00 PM Autograph Session
(I have a Sharpie and I will sign anything. Within the limits of public decency, anyway)
Sun 11:00 AM Character Creation Workshop
(making them just like people. only interesting. Applicable to gamers, too!)
Sun 12:00 PM Reading
(out loud, even!)
Sun 3:00 PM The Renaissance Man of the 21st Century
(is specialization really for insects?)
Sun 4:00 PM Haiku for You (YA)
(infecting the next generation with this particularly addictive form)
Sun 5:00 PM Why LiveJournal?
(sure, it sucks. but it's better than everything else out there. isn't it?)
Mon 11:00 AM Ripping Off History for Fun and Profit
(or: making your college degree [or someone else's] actually pay for itself)
Mon 1:00 PM The Future of Cities
(Not everyone's fleeing to the exburbs...)


While I hope to see folk I know there, I hope even more to see folk I don't know! come on up, say hi, ask me questions, and feel free to buy me a drink.... (hey, can't hurt, right?)

Just say no to ignorant, sexist spew.

Tell MSNBC to shitcan Chris Matthews, NOW.

After Clinton won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, Matthews asserted: "[T]he reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around." He described her performance at a debate last Saturday as apparently "good enough to seem good enough here for women who wanted to root for her anyway."

His sexism is hardly limited to comments about Clinton. During coverage of the New Hampshire primary, he said that Clinton is the only viable woman presidential candidate "on the horizon." He couldn't think of a single female governor eligible to run: "Where are the big-state women governors?" he asked. "Where are they? Name one." In fact, several of the states that currently have women governors are comparable in population to the states in which the male presidential candidates serve or have served as governor.

In November 2006, shortly after the Democrats took the majority in Congress, Matthews asked a guest if then-presumptive speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was "going to castrate Steny Hoyer" if Hoyer (D-MD) were elected House majority leader.

During coverage of a presidential debate last spring, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell was compelled to remind Matthews that Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) wife, Michelle, is a Harvard-educated lawyer after he focused obsessively on her physical appearance.

Universe knows we put up with a lot of stupidity coming in via the nightly news shows. But this sort of redlines the WTF-meter...


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