Dark Side of the Moon

I made it to Readercon last night just in time for Jennifer Pelland's (jenwrites) reading of her story "The Ghosts of New York."  Awesome story, very intense, some fascinating ideas about death and ghosts.   And then to a panel discussion called "You Don't Know Dictionary" about word usage, with Greer Gilman (nineweaving) on the panel, of course, and that was interesting, too.  Sources of words and what they convey and choice of words to use and the effects, such as why readers now feel cheated if you use "wagon" instead of "wain" in your fantasy book.  

I hung out around the hotel a while after the panels.  On the way out, finally, I walked down a corridor of closed doors for the smaller conference rooms but heard what wasn't quite Nine Inch Nails coming from one of them.    Peeked in.  A small group of people were playing Rock Band, the display projected on a large screen, and yes, "The Perfect Drug".   The guy was nailing the vocals, too, in time and pitch.  Just not quite Reznor. :-)

More Readercon today and Sunday, with an SCA event (GNEW) on Saturday to ring a change.
  
Oh, and I've also made a few updates to the www.chansonarts.com website.  The "life drawing" section is temporarily gone till I get a better, more recent set of images uploaded.   For the rest, if you follow my deviantArt page, you won't see anything you haven't seen before.  It's like a "best of" version.