Seven lonely days and a dozen times ago I reached out one night and you were gone. Don't know why

[hazelchaz]

Worldcon question: who from outside North America is going to inter_action, and would like to play with some ribbons?

I thought it might be interesting to bring some silly ribbons and have other people hand them out. flickgc, flyingsauce, sneerpout and all the rest of you: whaddya say?

I've got a particular style set aside for Lucy Z. and/or Zara B., since it was their idea in the first place, and I was thinking that Alice Lawson might want to hand out the "Sunnydale Visitors Bureau." And I'll drop off "2nd Generation Fan" (3rd, 4th) with jamesb for his department. But that still leaves a number of others to share. Any UK or european filkers in the audience, for example?

Speaking of sharing, I'm bringing some Kentucky Bourbon Fudge to share. (Hence the song referenced above.) Made by genuine Trappist monks, in fact. Stop me and ask for a bit.

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Comments

Re: Ribbons

[hazelchaz]

Send them my way... I've got a ribbon that should be handed out either by one of Those Bastards from interthingy.org, or by a Scot. Or both.

Chaz

Re: Ribbons

[munchkinstein.livejournal.com]

I am all a quiver as to what to reply to first. Should it be the suggestion that I am part of a mob? Or perhaps an enquiry as what this ribbon thingy is? Or is that tantamount to volunteering for something which, Reductio aside, I was doing so well at? Or perhaps I should enquire as to Kentucky Bourbon Fudge as made by Trappist Monks? It all starts so badly but ends so well I really don't know what to think.

Re: Ribbons

[hazelchaz]

Well, see, there's this "Clan Thyngye" mentioned on interthingy.org. Want to go around identifying members of Clan Thyngye?

Trappist Monks: The Abbey of Gethsemani, in Kentucky (Trappist, Kentucky, in fact; it's near Elizabethtown, which is near a major junction of two freeways) is home to about a hundred monks, that do the traditional monk thing.

Among those, they work to make things that they can sell to the outside world. Like cheese, for example. But they won't ship the cheese during the summer -- if you want Trappist Cheese from Kentucky, you have to wait, or go there yourself.

They also use some local bourbon (they don't say exactly which whiskey, but the nearest major distillery is Maker's Mark) in their fruitcake, which is very moist and I'm told quite delicious. But I'm not a big fruitcake fan... And they make fudge. Chocolate fudge with walnuts, and vanilla fudge with pecans (or maybe it's the other way around), and both flavored with bourbon.

Nummy stuff. Delicious. I Want to have some, but my doctor won't want me eating the whole box. Therefore I'll bring some to share. (Possibly to use as bread-and-butter gifts if we end up staying in someone's guest room, like Sue Mason's for example.)

Re: Ribbons

[munchkinstein.livejournal.com]

I'm very impressed with that Clan Thingy thing. So to speak. Provided I get to meet the Whisky Thyngyes I could happily do the ribbon thing(y).

Re: Ribbons

[hazelchaz]

So... who are you, so I can have someone point you out at the convention?

Chaz

Re: Ribbons

[munchkinstein.livejournal.com]

Ah, the difficult questions. I will appear on the convention role as Munchkin but, other than Friday's play, I am not obviously in any one place at the one time. Lucy Z. can spot me in a crowded room and my girlfriend is helping her with the Gopher Hole early on the Thursday so we could probably arrange some meeting around there in the first instance. That or a bar which I am distinctly not averse to. ;-)