MWC29 Countdown: Here We Go!

[mrwubbles]

First post 19 hours prior to MWC's unofficial start on Thursday. Everyone starts trickling in to visit friends, meet up and make new ones.

Sadly, for many reasons, some of our MWC friends can't make the reunion this year so I'm posting as much as I can to here with reports, psuedo panels so they can all still participate.

Mediawest encompasses all media from movies, tv, to books so welcome! Whether you're in MWC right now, couldn't make it, or just curious about it, feel free to join in on discussions here as each eMWC is posted. LJ registration is not necessary to comment here, but please note: watch your language and trolls here. :)


Report:

Nothing to report so far. It's almost midnight here, I'm biting my nails about flying. Bag packed and repacked and er...repacked. All the crucials are here:
1. Laptop : for writing fic
2. Notebook : for writing fic, fic ideas
3. iPod : to listen to while writing fic
4. Glasses : to read fanzines, fanfic

Hm...I see a trend.

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They're all non-biodegradable. LOL.



eMWC Question: What was your first convention ever? Whether actor, fanfic, anything. What was your impression? What was your original expectation?


Sadly, I didn't have a chance to make any door decorations so for this e.MWC for all youu out there, I'm putting up the old magazine spoof covers I made for our door years ago. They were a lot of fun to make. Mind you, the fonts aren't exact...

The Virtual Door Decoration

Comments

You asked...

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Okay, it's late, and I thought this was posted by/to MWC_TripDiary and I was incensed(!) that they would use Yum@'s door dec without giving credit. Doh.

Mind you, the fonts aren't exact...
Yes, Kathleen. My Grandma (Kathleen) was a fabulous cook, yet every time she placed the last food item on the table (or whenever anyone complemented the meal) she always said, "But the blah,blah, has blah blah wrong with it. She could never just let her wonderful creations speak for themselves, or graciously accept compliments, something was *always* wrong in her mind. (And in a stream of consciousness moment, because I misspelt a word and was just given options, I never realized that compliments and complements were not the same word.)

Okay, first con I was ever at, a National Association of Medical Technologists convention, with my parent, in New Orleans in 1972. (Honestly, a convention, is a con, is a con; whether fannish or business). My first con con, was a some local Milwaukee science fiction convention, in 1976, the year Gene Roddenberry came to speak here. Roddenberry came, and a week later a local star trek club, Star Fleet Academy (still in existence), was formed ("lets start a club" fliers had been handed out at Gene's talk.) Once the club was formed we, as a group, started going to & working at (gofering, security, etc.) midwest SF conventions. My first SF con was here in Milwaukee, and Anne McCaffrey was the GOH. White Dragon had just come out. I worked security and slept in the dealer's room. I bought a pewter Enterprise on a necklace, which I still have. I think I was 18. It was a wonderful experience. I met a lot of neat and weird people who were nothing like me, and a lot like me. Exactly the kind of thing you should do as a teenager.

Four years later, B & I went to a new kind of con, a "'zine con", in Lansing Michigan, called 2'Con. The next year it was called Media West. Didn't skip a single year until 2007.

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To help withthe virtual door decorations, a little something from a few years ago:

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My first ever convention was, iirc, one of the early London SG-1 cons - I know I went to SG-4 and saw the Shanks cry, but I believe I may well have been to the SG-1 con as well.

After a while, with the assistance of the alcohol that flows quite freely expensively at UK cons, they all start to blur into one, so I'm not sure which one it was where we were dancing lots or building towers of empty beer bottles for the admiration of all and sundry.

What did I expect? I'm not sure, though I was lucky enough to know a bunch of folks online who I then met up with at the con, otherwise I might not ever have done it. Crazy folks like me, fortunately.

I'm glad I did a few actor cons, if only to remind me that I prefer fan-run cons, because the embarrassment squick is less pinged by them. I've also been very lucky in being in on the ground floor of connotations, which is a con quite unlike any other, once Brit slash fans get going. Very entertaining in many many ways. ;)

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My first SF con was here in Milwaukee, and Anne McCaffrey was the GOH

Wow, I cant lay claim I knew anyone before they were famous. And it's interesting to see what our first con was: if it was for fun or work. I can only imagine the differences...

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Aw....I remember this! And the one where you made sound effects to your door!

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My first ever convention was, iirc, one of the early London SG-1 cons - I know I went to SG-4 and saw the Shanks cry, but I believe I may well have been to the SG-1 con as well.

Wow, I think MWC was truly, my first con and really what got me started in checking out actors' cons. You're right, there is a vast difference between these two, squick factor is a huge gap.

While MWC couldn't boast actors, I found MWC was a great safe haven for all fans to squee freely among fellow fans and be quite accepted for it. Not sure what I'd expected but I didn't think 10 years later, I'm still having fun here! LOL

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the one where you made sound effects to your door!

We always had sound effects for our doors, ever since Reickenback Falls, way before your time. One year we even had smell effects. When we did the Burrow (the Weasleys' house) we had peat incense so the fireplace smelled real.

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Wow, I cant lay claim I knew anyone before they were famous.

I can't either. White Dragon was Anne McCaffrey's 3rd book, which is why she was the Guest Of Honor.