{"id":8348,"date":"2015-11-23T10:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2016-03-08T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T03:34:38","slug":"hey-orycon-guess-who-has-the-high-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/23\/hey-orycon-guess-who-has-the-high-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"hey orycon, guess who has the high ground?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’d been so long since I’d been to Orycon that it was basically my first<\/em> Orycon kind of all over again. And a con other than VCON that I wasn’t working! How strange!<\/p>\n

They were in a new old hotel, and we were in a very strange room down past<\/em> what appeared to be the end of the hallway, down a second, very narrow hallway that did not look like it was supposed to go anywhere. (Seriously, it was some single-file-only narrow.) Our room started then with a very narrow rectangle, one long side of which became the hypotenuse for three sequentially larger and overlapping right triangles. This sounds terrible<\/em>, but it actually wasn’t; it was kind of neat and certainly more visually interesting than most hotel rooms.<\/p>\n

But nobody’s here for architecture. So, oh, what happened that I didn’t talk about in the weekend post? Well, I got into a band scramble with Callie from Echo’s Children, Chris Waffle from Going Viral (who had a great set on Sunday morning that not enough people attended – your loss, folks) and Andrew Ross, a well-liked solo performer in filk. The PDX Broadsides also put on a killer show – really, I didn’t see a bad performance out of anybody, everyone seemed pretty on point.<\/p>\n

The party scene at Orycon isn’t bad at all – they have a nice balance of sizes. The Westercon party’s entry stamp was the largest I’ve ever seen, a minotaur that was over 10cm long and looked like it was taking over half my forearm. Fortunately, the Radcon party had a choice of stamps, including a top hat, so I had them give my arm minotaur a dapper chapeau<\/eM>. I’m almost disappointed the ink was water-soluable; I didn’t think to photograph it before it got damaged.<\/p>\n

I also found high ground at the NIWA party – which at the time, I found unreasonably entertaining – all while staying on what architecturally my brain decided was all part of an excessively extended patio. (Because until I started heading upwards at the end, it was all on more or less the same level, connected by skybridges, so therefore: same patio. Two different buildings across three different blocks, whatever: same patio<\/eM>.)<\/p>\n


Sniper Bitch Instincts: Engaged<\/b><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Sunday continued to be pretty loopy and we ended up in some long conversations with people we’d never met personally before, including one of Anna’s favourite writers (and both Orycon and this coming Norwescon’s Writer GoH) Tanya Huff, talking about substantially about music festivals of Quebec and Atlantic Canada and guitar strings. I ratted out Anna’s elevator squee to her, of course.<\/p>\n

It’s not 10pm post-dead-dog arguments in a hallway about FM broadcast standards in television signals, but it’s pretty close.<\/p>\n


Anna and Tanya Huff, trying to keep each other vertical<\/strike><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Anyway, all in all, a successful and fun convention. Played a bunch, sold stuff, had a good time. Next up here is Second Thanksgiving, on Thursday, so posting will probably get a little sparse. It can take a little while to remind all the Henchies about being thankful<\/eM> they are still alive<\/em>, but eventually, even they get it.<\/p>\n

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Looking for the Grammy Awards Long List nominee post? Thank you for listening, and for your consideration<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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