Of (Gay) Elf-Boys
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mishalakSexy Boy – The Kinky Boyz with Kia
Saturday
The next morning I was on a mission from Alison. She had asked me to dress up in my terribly Goth outfit for Sue Mason's interview panel. So when I got up I took even longer than usual getting ready because it took me simply forever to paint my fingernails black. Not a look I'm going to do regularly, but it was a lot of fun this once. Along with my vinyl pants and a fishnet shirt (is it right to call something so insubstantial a shirt?) I was looking very fab.
I made quite a splash when I arrived downstairs for the panel. A guy with a Polaroid took pictures of me with Sue, as did Diane.[1] During the panel I took pictures and ran questions from the audience up front for Alison to ask Sue. The whole thing was quite a blast and we got an explanation for all the mooses (sic) in Sue's art and some fun drawings of moose done on the chalkboard.
I followed Sue to her next program item: touring the art show and giving her take on the pieces in the show. There was a huge crowd so I didn't follow her too closely, but her talking about the art did inspire me to put a bid on a elf piece by her. After a break to hang around upstairs, during which I changed into my black jeans and red shirt Spike sort of outfit, I went back down to hang with Sue at an artist collaborative participating program. While there I tried to show off my inability to do art, but was unrelentingly encouraged by the many fan artists there. Feh on them for not being supportive of my negativity. I might actually have to go out and practice now.[2]
More taking pictures of people and vague trying to be helpful in the con-suites. Then I was off to see a quick slice of the city and get some blank CDs for Andrew to burn my pictures onto. At approximately 5pm I went back to my room to clean off my nail polish and put on my vinyl pants, black tee shirt, boot, and Farscape vest. I thought this outfit would be okay for a Time Traveller's Ball since I didn't have anything 1940s or Victorian in my suitcase.[3]
Arriving early I tried to take pictures of people as they came in using the nightvision function on my camera.[4] Some of those came out excellent looking like classic 1940s photos. Sue Mason did two changes of clothing. The first was more medievaly blouse and skirt and the second was a very nice black dress with corset. Drinking a Brandy Alexander, a Scarlet O'Hara, and various other mixed drinks at the ball gently smashed me. Sue and Alison mocked my drinking abilities in comparison to British fans.
Part of the refreshments were little cheese cakes, cocktail shrimp, and a cake provided by Geri out of the Worldcon bid funds. She had decided that she could plausibly call the dance a Worldcon because it was a Time Traveller's Ball and so was part of an alternate future where she chairs Worldcon. Or else she only agreed to chair a Minneapolis Worldcon, not to actually bid for one. Either way she's planning on sending half the money to the next three Worldcons as pass along funds and the other half goes to Minicon to get it closer to being in the black.
Other doings at the ball include getting complements and questions about my peacekeeper uniform, meeting people from the Denver area and learning Rachael (from the dinner with Sue) may be moving here for school, and my playing bartender late in the game when we lost the official one. Jack had wandered off somewhere, probably to go party after being exhausted by the alcohol requirements of the fen. [5]
For a short while during and a longer time after the Ball had wound down I hung out in the drinking con-suite and various parties. And I met a really cute guy who I made out with for a while, though we decided against doing anything more than that due to each of us having roommates. C'est la vie. For some reason I then returned to my room, changed shirt and pants, again, then went back out to the parties for a while. I wandered upstairs in my velvet shirt, back down to the Tor Party, and generally hung out. I turned in a bit later than I would have liked.
[1] Me with Sue
[2] Artists at Work/Play
[3] Me later at night in the peacekeeper uniform. Once again picture by Diane Lacey.
[4] The opening of the Time Traveller's Ball
[5] Jack, the official purveyor of mixed drinks.
(Note, there are other pictures of doings besides the ones I'm featureing here.)
Saturday
The next morning I was on a mission from Alison. She had asked me to dress up in my terribly Goth outfit for Sue Mason's interview panel. So when I got up I took even longer than usual getting ready because it took me simply forever to paint my fingernails black. Not a look I'm going to do regularly, but it was a lot of fun this once. Along with my vinyl pants and a fishnet shirt (is it right to call something so insubstantial a shirt?) I was looking very fab.
I made quite a splash when I arrived downstairs for the panel. A guy with a Polaroid took pictures of me with Sue, as did Diane.[1] During the panel I took pictures and ran questions from the audience up front for Alison to ask Sue. The whole thing was quite a blast and we got an explanation for all the mooses (sic) in Sue's art and some fun drawings of moose done on the chalkboard.
I followed Sue to her next program item: touring the art show and giving her take on the pieces in the show. There was a huge crowd so I didn't follow her too closely, but her talking about the art did inspire me to put a bid on a elf piece by her. After a break to hang around upstairs, during which I changed into my black jeans and red shirt Spike sort of outfit, I went back down to hang with Sue at an artist collaborative participating program. While there I tried to show off my inability to do art, but was unrelentingly encouraged by the many fan artists there. Feh on them for not being supportive of my negativity. I might actually have to go out and practice now.[2]
More taking pictures of people and vague trying to be helpful in the con-suites. Then I was off to see a quick slice of the city and get some blank CDs for Andrew to burn my pictures onto. At approximately 5pm I went back to my room to clean off my nail polish and put on my vinyl pants, black tee shirt, boot, and Farscape vest. I thought this outfit would be okay for a Time Traveller's Ball since I didn't have anything 1940s or Victorian in my suitcase.[3]
Arriving early I tried to take pictures of people as they came in using the nightvision function on my camera.[4] Some of those came out excellent looking like classic 1940s photos. Sue Mason did two changes of clothing. The first was more medievaly blouse and skirt and the second was a very nice black dress with corset. Drinking a Brandy Alexander, a Scarlet O'Hara, and various other mixed drinks at the ball gently smashed me. Sue and Alison mocked my drinking abilities in comparison to British fans.
Part of the refreshments were little cheese cakes, cocktail shrimp, and a cake provided by Geri out of the Worldcon bid funds. She had decided that she could plausibly call the dance a Worldcon because it was a Time Traveller's Ball and so was part of an alternate future where she chairs Worldcon. Or else she only agreed to chair a Minneapolis Worldcon, not to actually bid for one. Either way she's planning on sending half the money to the next three Worldcons as pass along funds and the other half goes to Minicon to get it closer to being in the black.
Other doings at the ball include getting complements and questions about my peacekeeper uniform, meeting people from the Denver area and learning Rachael (from the dinner with Sue) may be moving here for school, and my playing bartender late in the game when we lost the official one. Jack had wandered off somewhere, probably to go party after being exhausted by the alcohol requirements of the fen. [5]
For a short while during and a longer time after the Ball had wound down I hung out in the drinking con-suite and various parties. And I met a really cute guy who I made out with for a while, though we decided against doing anything more than that due to each of us having roommates. C'est la vie. For some reason I then returned to my room, changed shirt and pants, again, then went back out to the parties for a while. I wandered upstairs in my velvet shirt, back down to the Tor Party, and generally hung out. I turned in a bit later than I would have liked.
[1] Me with Sue
[2] Artists at Work/Play
[3] Me later at night in the peacekeeper uniform. Once again picture by Diane Lacey.
[4] The opening of the Time Traveller's Ball
[5] Jack, the official purveyor of mixed drinks.
(Note, there are other pictures of doings besides the ones I'm featureing here.)