hazelchaz | ...so they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.

Friday evening, mostly, part 2 of 2

After the "Lucas Back in Anger" show I went over to the Hilton, to see the parties.

People I saw and photographed Friday night whilst party-hopping included: Rolf Christian Andersen, Kurt Baty, Kris Bauer-Exline (

glittercat13), Gunnar Bakke, Arabella Benson, Thomas Benson, Mike Benveniste, Helge J. Bjørnhaug, Scott Bobo, Jim Briggs, Judith L. Chantelois, Chad Childers, Genny Dazzo, Mike Donahue, Lynn Edwards, Darrel L. Exline (

darrelx), Adrienne Foster, Sue Francis, Lisa C. Freitag, David Gallaher, Deb Geisler, Lynn Gold (

figmo), Marina Grskovic, Joe Haldeman, Andrew Hook, Ed Hooper, Joyce Hooper, Masaharu Inoue, Tamie Inoue, Per C. Jørgensen, Vlatko Juric-Kokic, Greg Ketter, Elizabeth Klein-Lebbink, Laura Krentz, Gyrd Thane Lange, Nicki Lynch (

nwl), Richard Lynch (

rwl), Christian McGuire, Yoshiko Maegawa, Craig Miller, Carol Morton, Jim Murray, Inger Myers, Roderick O'Hanlon, Noriko Oyama, Carole Parker, Elayne Pelz, Yngve N. Pettersen, Larry van der Putte, "Sparks" Rennie, Patrycja "Zoey" Rozycka, Leann Runyanwood, Spring Schoenhuth, Jerome Scott, Hachiya Shouichi, Takayuki Tatsumi, Sten Thaning, Kees van Toorn, Andy Trembley (

bovil), Tom Veal, Jack Vickeridge, Sue Wheeler, Mike Willmoth, Naoko Yamaguchi, Carmental, and Dessy.

I stopped first at the Future Worldcon party -- the L.A.con IV/Nippon 2007 party. Christian McGuire was at the door and welcomed everyone to the "Pacific Rim Worldcon party hosted by..." as he and Ed Hooper handed out Space Cadet party stickers, and just inside the door Yoshiko Maegawa in a kimono handed out Nippon 2007 stickers as well.

The "red" theme was carried over very effectively, I thought; certainly the strawberry shortcake looked like a big hit. A number of people just wanted the fresh strawberries, which was just as well as I heard they ran out of whipped cream during the course of the evening. There were chocolates strewn about the place, and candies, and so forth. The little boxes of Red Hots were enjoyed by several people; I think the amount I bought was the right number (one small case of them), because they're not everyone's favorite. The giant 200g Turkish Delight snap bars were broken into their bite-size pieces, the Chomps were all over the place, and there was some other Cadbury chocolate that I didn't supply as well.

galtine1 had told me not to do the jelly, so I still have six packages (three strawberry, three raspberry) of jelly blocks, and the plastic serving cups, in my luggage. There was some kind of red punch at the far end.

Genny Dazzo wore a sleeveless sparkly red dress. Joyce Hooper and Elayne Pelz wore red, with matching Space Cadet caps, and complete Space Cadet badged sashes. Although the uniform appearance was spoiled slightly by the sashes being opposites of each other -- Joyce's went over her right shoulder, while Elayne's went over her left. I wore my red and black anime-style "Dragon Princess" shirt. The Japanesese attempted to read the writing on it -- they said there was a greeting in one place, but couldn't make heads or tails out of the large writing. (Maybe it's in Chinese that doesn't work in Japanese? Or maybe it's just some random ideograms.) The party was in a non-smoking ballroom, and there was a bar right outside so if you had to have a drink you could get one. It was a prime location: the first ballroom off of the bar (there were three). Because the ballrooms are so much larger than the other party rooms, there was plenty of room for tables (10-seat rounds, I believe) where people could plant themselves if they wished. Kudos to

galtine1 and her crew (including busboy

darrelx) for a marvelous party.

Naoko Yamaguchi and Noriko Oyama were dressed as wind-up clockwork maids -- they had black and white maid uniforms, with a big wind-up key sticking out of the back. They seemed to have some connection to madscientist-cafe.org.uk.

At the Friendly Norwegians' party, Per C. Jørgensen served me a "Borg" pilsner. I don't know what the Norwegians think of the Star Trek Borg, but the Beer of Borg was okay. It was cool -- and only barely -- not cold at all. I took it with me, Jack Vickeridge took a picture of me with it, and I took it with me to a few more parties.

Even though Carmental is now 24, she still pushes my "Jailbait" buttons. Perhaps because she's grown up to be a beautiful woman but still has a playful young attitude? I don't know; she's not immature, that's not it. Maybe it's because I've seen her with her mom at so many conventions.

Inger Myers has made herself a "Cookie Jar" dress -- the fabric has gingerbread men in a cookie jar. It looked to me like it the outfit was made with the "flame" skirt I've seen her wear before.

kproche and

bovil's League of Evil Geniuses party had the signs on the wall that I'd seen at their party at Gaylaxicon. Lots of evil geniuses, lots of odd food. Including some locally-produced twisty marshmallow things, which I bet would be great toasted. But there were no candles in the room, so I couldn't check the theory.

I met up with Vlatko Juric-Kokic. Vlatko had volunteered to help with the Saturday night Masquerade Fan Photography area.

The Kansas City in 2009 party was in another party ballroom. They had the advantage of having a kitchen at their backs, and Inger Myers spent the day baking batches of Inger Cookies. Chocolate Chip and Peanut Butter were what I saw, the peanut butter were almost gone by the time I arrived (about 22:00) but there were a bunch of the choc chip ones left. (I suspect she made many more of those than the p.b. cookies.)

library_lynn pronounced the choc chip ones very good. Inger told us that she had to wing it because her recipes are in american cups and tablespoons, but she hadn't brought her measuring cups; but she's been making these same recipes for decades, she has them in the back of her head, so she could look at the amount of sugar she had and say "that looks about right" and go with that. I think she and my mother would get along famously; mom cooks like that all the time.

rwl said that Joe Siclari is ready to help me restore my photo collection with any way that he can assist. This reminds me, I think I sent Joe a CD or a zip file with some of the Fan Gallery photos; it may have been just the viewing-size images that I had posted with the captions, but that would be a good thing to ask him for when I talk to him next. I'll have to send e-mail, because I didn't see him when I stopped by the FANAC exhibit.