Baycon...

[mdlbear]

So far I'm having a great time. Had dinner last night with the flower_cat (plus chaoswolf's GF Mayhem, who is diabetic and has to be reminded to eat at reasonably regular intervals) and harpist Moira Stern, whose concert later in the evening was excellent (and rather sparsely attended -- whatever happened to people's sense of curiosity? You'd think that MZB's daughter would draw a bigger crowd at an SF con.).
The parties were pretty much of a bust.
The open filk, on the other hand, was fantastic. Not a big crowd, but wonderful voices and great songs. Callie Hills (of Echo's Children) did a very good cover of my song The Programmer's Alphabet; the melody has shifted a little in the filk process, and the RAM "that we used to call core" became "of which we need more". Could I be getting old?

Comments

[nolly.livejournal.com]

You'd think that MZB's daughter would draw a bigger crowd at an SF con.

Perhaps actual MZB fans (which I am not, not having read significant amounts of her writing) would recognize her daughter's name, but I wouldn't/didn't/don't.

[mdlbear]

Good point -- I may not have been thinking clearly. Moira was well-known around fandom back in the elder days, but apparently it's been long enough that most people no longer know her.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

That, and the name change has thrown folks off.

More important, though, is what she's done on her own. The filk concerts at Baycon, although listed in the pocket program (yay kierin!), seemed to mostly be publicized via word of mouth.