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Pyat's Astonishing American Adventure
Jul. 15th, 2002 04:35 pmBest. Con. Ever.
Possibly it was simply the ego rush of having strangers from England ask me for my autograph. Maybe it was the buzz from selling so much damn product in three days. I dunno. AnthroCon was an absolute blast, the best con I've ever attended, frankly.
I met lots of people I've known only as glowing text on a screen, took lots of pictures. I discovered that I've been mentally mispronouncing Matrian's name for five years. I had a good (though too short) chat with Matrian on Saturday night that was basically an offline version of our online chats. :-) Next year I'll book some time to have a proper visit.
On Friday I had supper with Kianir and CanaWolf, as well as some nice folks from Texas - a guy and two charming young ladies (furry artists) who made me realize just how old I am. One of them claimed my fedora for the duration of the meal. Kianir showed off his mighty VW bus.
I shared a room with Jason Holmgren (aka Rafferty), the head honcho of Sanguine. He's incredibly uncool, in a good way. Very hyper and chock-a-block full of obscure cultural references. At 7 AM on Saturday morn I switched on the hotel room TV, and the original Beastmaster movie was on. Rafferty, coming from the bathroom, cheered.
"HBO means 'Hooray! Beastmaster's On!'"
For some reason, the conversation then turned to torture techniques as used in RPGs and an old issue of Marshall Law we both own.
We sold a barge load of product. Without going into details, I will say that if I'd whacked Rafferty over the head and run off with the cash, I could've bought a late model used car.
I made peace with Steve Gallacci, the guy who first published Usagi Yojimbo - I did an interview with him once in the orginal Realms magazine 4-5 years ago, and the editor twisted the article to make it look like he'd chased me off with a gun.
Some weird coincidences. I commissioned a con badge picture from an artist at the table next to me, and discovered she lived in Burlington. Later, I was talking to some guy about American dollar bills - told him I'd gotten too used to coins to go back to paper $1's. As I was talking to him, some red-haired British woman piped up and asked "You're Canadian?" And I said yes... so she said that she and her husband had just moved to Canada, and really wanted to play Iron Claw, possibly on the play testers list. "You probably don't know the city. It's called Hamilton," she said. She and her husband make prothestics and masks for special effects companies, apparently. http://www.the-pack.com/alexisrudd/?action=image&gallery_id=1&image_id=4 I'm going to run a few games for them before they return to England (temporarily) in September.
Possibly it was simply the ego rush of having strangers from England ask me for my autograph. Maybe it was the buzz from selling so much damn product in three days. I dunno. AnthroCon was an absolute blast, the best con I've ever attended, frankly.
I met lots of people I've known only as glowing text on a screen, took lots of pictures. I discovered that I've been mentally mispronouncing Matrian's name for five years. I had a good (though too short) chat with Matrian on Saturday night that was basically an offline version of our online chats. :-) Next year I'll book some time to have a proper visit.
On Friday I had supper with Kianir and CanaWolf, as well as some nice folks from Texas - a guy and two charming young ladies (furry artists) who made me realize just how old I am. One of them claimed my fedora for the duration of the meal. Kianir showed off his mighty VW bus.
I shared a room with Jason Holmgren (aka Rafferty), the head honcho of Sanguine. He's incredibly uncool, in a good way. Very hyper and chock-a-block full of obscure cultural references. At 7 AM on Saturday morn I switched on the hotel room TV, and the original Beastmaster movie was on. Rafferty, coming from the bathroom, cheered.
"HBO means 'Hooray! Beastmaster's On!'"
For some reason, the conversation then turned to torture techniques as used in RPGs and an old issue of Marshall Law we both own.
We sold a barge load of product. Without going into details, I will say that if I'd whacked Rafferty over the head and run off with the cash, I could've bought a late model used car.
I made peace with Steve Gallacci, the guy who first published Usagi Yojimbo - I did an interview with him once in the orginal Realms magazine 4-5 years ago, and the editor twisted the article to make it look like he'd chased me off with a gun.
Some weird coincidences. I commissioned a con badge picture from an artist at the table next to me, and discovered she lived in Burlington. Later, I was talking to some guy about American dollar bills - told him I'd gotten too used to coins to go back to paper $1's. As I was talking to him, some red-haired British woman piped up and asked "You're Canadian?" And I said yes... so she said that she and her husband had just moved to Canada, and really wanted to play Iron Claw, possibly on the play testers list. "You probably don't know the city. It's called Hamilton," she said. She and her husband make prothestics and masks for special effects companies, apparently. http://www.the-pack.com/alexisrudd/?action=image&gallery_id=1&image_id=4 I'm going to run a few games for them before they return to England (temporarily) in September.
