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lisa_marli and I drove up to Berkeley in her fabulous Prius to pay a site visit to UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Center for our Mythcon this summer. The famous Tom W. was the other committee member who could make it. We had some contract provision matters to discuss with the site staff, but a major impetus was to take the chance to just refamiliarize ourselves with the campus, our programming and sleeping rooms. This will be our fourth Mythcon there in 20 years - they move around a lot - but it's been six years since the last one. That's a while.
A few things have changed - oh look, TV sets in some of the lounges, maybe we won't have to haul in one of our own for the film program this year - but mostly it was a refresher course. I got a little confused about the staircase setup in the programming building, but Lisa knew where they went. The site staff got a little confused about which dorm corridor we were in, but I knew where we were.
It was quiet and a little alien, with strange students running around the dorms, and a biomedical conference going on in the programming building. But after three Mythcons there are a lot of friendly ghosts on our campus. This is the room where we gathered Ursula Le Guin and all three of her collaborators on the Always Coming Home title page to talk about the book. This is the lounge where we held the Bored of the Rings food party, with Fritos, Spam, Pepsi (no Moxie - we couldn't find any), and Arrowroot (son of Arrowshirt) biscuits. This is the quiet lounge at the far end of the dorm where we sentsartorias and her writers' workshop: now it's the one with the TV set. Here's the main stage, where we put on our production of Charles Williams's Masque of the Manuscript with Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, and Peter Beagle as the three gimlet-eyed editors. Back there is the building where we Moved the Boat - like lime jello, this is one of those stories that seems like a good idea at the time but makes no sense the next morning - and behind it is the lawn where we recruited Tim Powers to play Golfimbul, Mythcon's unique combination of softball, lawn bowling, and plastic doll dismemberment.
Come August there will be more memories to add to these. But in the meantime, I'm the chairman and there's work to do. Spent most of Thursday writing e-mails, reporting to the committee and pinging other people for various purposes. Next job: conjuring up the programming schedule, since I seem to have assigned this to myself.
lisa_marli and I drove up to Berkeley in her fabulous Prius to pay a site visit to UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Center for our Mythcon this summer. The famous Tom W. was the other committee member who could make it. We had some contract provision matters to discuss with the site staff, but a major impetus was to take the chance to just refamiliarize ourselves with the campus, our programming and sleeping rooms. This will be our fourth Mythcon there in 20 years - they move around a lot - but it's been six years since the last one. That's a while.A few things have changed - oh look, TV sets in some of the lounges, maybe we won't have to haul in one of our own for the film program this year - but mostly it was a refresher course. I got a little confused about the staircase setup in the programming building, but Lisa knew where they went. The site staff got a little confused about which dorm corridor we were in, but I knew where we were.
It was quiet and a little alien, with strange students running around the dorms, and a biomedical conference going on in the programming building. But after three Mythcons there are a lot of friendly ghosts on our campus. This is the room where we gathered Ursula Le Guin and all three of her collaborators on the Always Coming Home title page to talk about the book. This is the lounge where we held the Bored of the Rings food party, with Fritos, Spam, Pepsi (no Moxie - we couldn't find any), and Arrowroot (son of Arrowshirt) biscuits. This is the quiet lounge at the far end of the dorm where we sent
sartorias and her writers' workshop: now it's the one with the TV set. Here's the main stage, where we put on our production of Charles Williams's Masque of the Manuscript with Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, and Peter Beagle as the three gimlet-eyed editors. Back there is the building where we Moved the Boat - like lime jello, this is one of those stories that seems like a good idea at the time but makes no sense the next morning - and behind it is the lawn where we recruited Tim Powers to play Golfimbul, Mythcon's unique combination of softball, lawn bowling, and plastic doll dismemberment.Come August there will be more memories to add to these. But in the meantime, I'm the chairman and there's work to do. Spent most of Thursday writing e-mails, reporting to the committee and pinging other people for various purposes. Next job: conjuring up the programming schedule, since I seem to have assigned this to myself.
