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[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

Dear fans of Boston:

A short time ago, I spent the weekend walking around telling people, "Thank you for having me at your convention." While it may have sounded a mite corny, I kept saying it, because I felt it. arisia 2008 was an utterly amazing experience for me, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I want to add a public thanks to several people:

• cintyber, for inviting me as a GoH and getting me out there for this con, where I was both Something New, and simultanously feeling so much at home.
  
• The most excellent, wondrous, and otherwise marvelous GoH Liason crew -- pineapple power! Most of the membership is probably not aware of these people, but they moved mountains for myself, marrus and suricattus. I cannot say enough.
  
• I also want to reco'nize the others what treated me good: the hotel staff and the arisians who interfaced with them; the Pubs folks; Events; Tech; Programming (thanks for making the geocaching thing work, guys!); Gaming; Fast Track; Green Room; and the Con Suite. (I know that's a long list, and I'm still worried that I forgot somebody.)
  
• The talk show guests who came on my show and played the improv game that has turned into a (now-bicoastal!) fandom institution-despite-itself.
  
• And not least, my Cue Card Chick and my Cameraman (Season 7.5, as well as the Season 2 footage that was screened at the Con), for the incredible support they provided -- including being reassembled after midnight on Sunday night, when Opportunity knocked (after all the scheduled filming was done).
  

Great con... no, scratch that. A con for the ages. I lurve you all, and thank you for sharing the ride.

(I have another window with many tabs open, so I'll be working my way through the LJ responses.)

Fondly,
Z (of eric_in_elevatr)

P.S.: Oh, and before I forget... when I thought that there would be opening ceremonies, at which I'd have to make a speech, I was going to open with this line, and I put it out there irregardless: "Nice boots." ;->

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Everything conflicts with something

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

Oh, well. I almost didn't make it to the Mad Scientist Laugh Contest. My cornerstone event (the eric_in_elevatr screening) ended at 10:30, and I was having real buyer's remorse at having booked an 11:00. The GoH liaison offered to me 3 times that I could skip it, but it was a real point of pride of me to not blow off any programming elements. I turned out to be glad that I'd gone, because I really enjoyed hamming it up and making the audience laugh.

Z

P.S.: Sorry we didn't actually make acquaintance -- but then, you're now on the wrong coast for me to intro you to bovil and kproche, whom I had thought you should really oughta know...

Re: Everything conflicts with something

[robdamnit.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's cool. I actually already know them from a few previous cons. Mad, mad costumers. Alas, I never touched base with them while in the bay area.