A VTSFFC Party, Day One
It turns out that a 5-hour drive in a Mini Cooper is a lot more comfortable than you’d think. In the front seat, anyway.
Dwight introduced me to a bunch of very good music. I’m going to have to look up some more material by the Dresden Dolls and the Supreme Beings of Leisure. The company was excellent and the scenery compelling (and the leaves haven’t even turned yet!)
We arrived in Blacksburg, picked up shrewlet, and wandered into Invisifest around 4, into a panel that tltrent was hosting. I was knocked over by my welcome; my VTSFFC family is one excellent bunch of folk, who really know how to make a guy feel like he’s where he belongs. I caught up with rattrap, nius, rainbowsaber, mephox, anterus, southernsinger, rubinpdf, Cathy, Ben, Jamie, and many other people. Around six, we had to shut down the panel, but we dragged most of the crowd to Macado’s, where Pat and I geeked out over Whovian matters while we waited for our food.
There was a brief attempt at handing Technicon 25 over to me, which I discuss a little more over in my lifestyle filter (if you want to be added to that and haven’t been, leave a comment here to that effect). Suffice it to say that their idea would have made for a quite memorable TCon, and that I turned down the kind offer. Rapidly. Possibly in nanoseconds 🙂
We went back to the ‘Fest for Keith’s White Plectrum concert, which was a small, laughter-filled performance. Keith paid me high compliments by telling the story of how “Red Pill” was written. For those who asked, the throwaway line which inspired “When They Shut Down The Fusion Plant (We’ll Pack Our Bags And Glow)” is found in Music From the Heart of Space, a Starfleet: Batron Eleven fanfic which includes elements of Doctor Who, Robotech: Macross, and Megazone 23. Despite that mashup, I’m still rather proud of the tale, which will always live on in some small manner thanks to Jerry’s twisted creative mind.
We had to leave shortly afterwards. I wish I’d had the energy to stay all night and party, but I have a wedding to attend tomorrow!
Tags: conventions, doctor who, fandom, filking, food, friends, music, technicon, travel, writing
Hey, credit where credit is due! You did that song in an amazingly short time (less than ten minutes)! It was definitely good seeing you again, and hopefully it won’t be so long between visits.
Yeah, add me to that filter (unless you think it’s too much for my mind to process …).
Too bad Invisifest missed me by a week. But then this weekend would have been triple-booked, so oh well. I was in Bburg last weekend and will be in DC this coming weekend, so I can’t really complain about missing friends too much, although it’d have been nice to catch you. Ah well, we must save a meal at T’con or something. 🙂
I still appreciate the ego-boo! It was great hanging with you last night.
And you have been added (in case you haven’t already noticed).
I would have really loved it if you’d have been there too, but Technicon it will be! Enjoy DC and Europe!
add me to filter, please? How are you doing?
Added!
I’m doing quite well! (I’m usually afraid to say that. Let’s see if I regret it later today -smirk-)
Job good, money okay, relationship good, even getting good amounts of fun in my life.
How ’bout yourself?
Yay! Glad to hear things are good for you. I really should make an update… Things are ok here, I suppose, Dan’s left for Fort Drum, in fact should be arriving in about an hour. This is for 2 years. It will be an interesting adjustment period. Otherwise, things aren’t too bad, life continues apace.