Well, I'm back now.
The mead I started is nicely brewing in the garage, rhodamel and all, and I'm back after a ten day trip to San Diego and other parts south, where I did
Conjecture and
Buffyfest, then topped off the trip by attending
Dr. Schuler's Medicine Show at the El Cid in LA, after I met Jonathan Woodward at Buffyfest. Jon plays Knox on Angel, Holden Webster on Buffy (stealing the show in "Conversations With Dead People," the one episode the character was in), a unaired episode of Firefly, and is going to be in Still Life, currently filming. The Medicine Show was performance art mixed with old-school cabaret, and appears to be a who's who of young Hollywood up-and-comers. Aside from Jon, the guy doing the great "Latka" accent and hustling raffle tickets (which won prizes in a Let's-make-a-deal-style show) had a very distinctive face, which I suddenly found peering out at me from a car commercial when I got back and watched my videotapes of all the shows I recorded while I was out.
But back to the cons. Conjecture was great. Alison Lonsdale came up with excellent panels, and all was madly entertaining. Buffyfest was also a blast, a really great one-day con which will hopefully be expanded to a full weekend next year. In short, fun-fun-fun. And plenty of good business, so readers will hopefully pardon me if my next installment is equally late.
