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Shore Leave
Jul. 13th, 2008 05:30 pmMy brain is not entirely recovered, so this is more of a series of strobe-lit images than a flowing essay.
First: My review for French Pressed is up on Reviewing The Evidence. It contains a pithy statement about a particularly annoying cozy cliche. RtE is then planning on taking a 2-week break.
Second: My apologies to everyone who responded to the previous post with "Let's get together!" I did not have my laptop or time to get online all of yesterday or until I got home today. (Also, at Shore Leave in particular, I'm running around like a crazed weasel. I would love to meet people, but the best way of meeting me is to catch me coming out of a panel and introduce yourself in small words. By this afternoon, I'm faintly surprised I was speaking coherent English. If I even was.)
I did want to meet y'all, and I regret that I wasn't able to. Hopefully, that can be rectified!
Third: It was good to see everyone I know but don't see often enough. It was great to meet new people, especially you, Mr. Drew (if you're reading this) and you,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jmswallow (I hope you are reading this). persiflage_1 - this is the J. Swallow who wrote Peacemaker, if you want to drop a link to your "I love this book!!!!" post in the comments.
( A selected quote from each guest, masquerade commentary, and recaps of the Who panels under the cut. )
Finally, just as I seem to be the only knitter who numbers my needles and everybody thinks it's a good idea, I seem to be the only panel moderator who uses this technique and, as I've been complimented on it more than once, I shall describe it for anyone who wants to adopt it:
I like to throw out a discussion topic, have my say, and keep an eye on the audience. As hands go up, I'll point to the person with a nod, and holding up fingers to show where they are in the queue. (My mental buffer won't hold more than 5 anyway.) Then each of them gets their say, and if I or another panelist wants to interject, we do so before the next audience person gets to speak, but then we *do* make sure to go back to right where the queue was broken. (Which I often mark by just pointing to them in order saying "One, two, three, you start.") Take a couple of audience rounds that way (a juicy topic will feed two or three rounds of hand raising) before saying "okay, and now let's move on to..." and repeat the whole thing.
People know if they've been seen or not, they don't have to have their hand up forever, they do get their say, and it tends to keep too many people from just blurting out. The downside is that it really only works when I'm either the only one on the panel or the most talkative panelist (not thattiggerallyn and terri_osborne didn't get their $.02 in!) But the key is that it *works* and works well on contentious panel topics.
Oh - and apparently out there somewhere is a parody of the "He's like fire and ice and rage" speech, and I would love to see/hear it all the way through. All I can remember being told is "fire and ice make tepid water."
First: My review for French Pressed is up on Reviewing The Evidence. It contains a pithy statement about a particularly annoying cozy cliche. RtE is then planning on taking a 2-week break.
Second: My apologies to everyone who responded to the previous post with "Let's get together!" I did not have my laptop or time to get online all of yesterday or until I got home today. (Also, at Shore Leave in particular, I'm running around like a crazed weasel. I would love to meet people, but the best way of meeting me is to catch me coming out of a panel and introduce yourself in small words. By this afternoon, I'm faintly surprised I was speaking coherent English. If I even was.)
I did want to meet y'all, and I regret that I wasn't able to. Hopefully, that can be rectified!
Third: It was good to see everyone I know but don't see often enough. It was great to meet new people, especially you, Mr. Drew (if you're reading this) and you,
jmswallow (I hope you are reading this). persiflage_1 - this is the J. Swallow who wrote Peacemaker, if you want to drop a link to your "I love this book!!!!" post in the comments.( A selected quote from each guest, masquerade commentary, and recaps of the Who panels under the cut. )
Finally, just as I seem to be the only knitter who numbers my needles and everybody thinks it's a good idea, I seem to be the only panel moderator who uses this technique and, as I've been complimented on it more than once, I shall describe it for anyone who wants to adopt it:
I like to throw out a discussion topic, have my say, and keep an eye on the audience. As hands go up, I'll point to the person with a nod, and holding up fingers to show where they are in the queue. (My mental buffer won't hold more than 5 anyway.) Then each of them gets their say, and if I or another panelist wants to interject, we do so before the next audience person gets to speak, but then we *do* make sure to go back to right where the queue was broken. (Which I often mark by just pointing to them in order saying "One, two, three, you start.") Take a couple of audience rounds that way (a juicy topic will feed two or three rounds of hand raising) before saying "okay, and now let's move on to..." and repeat the whole thing.
People know if they've been seen or not, they don't have to have their hand up forever, they do get their say, and it tends to keep too many people from just blurting out. The downside is that it really only works when I'm either the only one on the panel or the most talkative panelist (not that
tiggerallyn and terri_osborne didn't get their $.02 in!) But the key is that it *works* and works well on contentious panel topics.Oh - and apparently out there somewhere is a parody of the "He's like fire and ice and rage" speech, and I would love to see/hear it all the way through. All I can remember being told is "fire and ice make tepid water."
