Livefrom the DWCON
Hello Sports fans!
Just a short message, live from the Discworld Convention. So far, it's Good! Did some light Gofering, some Watch duty, which means basically that you stand around near the entrance of events, and politely mention to people that merchants will tear them to tiny bits if their beverage will find its way to the merchandise.
Of course, lots of people in all kinds of costumes, some more revealing than the others. The corsetting industry is well represented. A good corset is a powerful presentation tool. I did attend the Maskerade, where the most extravagant costumes are shown. Of special note was "Mr. Shiny", basically a disco-ball come to life.
I myself took part in one of the events:
stlemur had an item on the folk songs that were referenced in Monstrous Regiment. Together with Lonecat, 
countertony, the_hatstand and myself, we performed some of these songs while Edmund explained the significance of the songs. We were playing in the big hall (the Dysk), and there was quite a large audience,much to our surprise. I had specially learned "Johnny has gone for a soldier", and sang that. It was actually well received, go me! We also played and sang "Sweet Polly Oliver", "The World Turned Upside Down", and "Poor Old Soldier". Not to mention a three-part rendition of "Hanging on the old barbed wire". When we came to the end of the story, we still had some minutes left, so I sang "The Band Played Waltyzing Matilda", thoroughly depressing everybody. Can't give anyone the impression that War is actually fun, now can we? After that, Mr. Pratchett himself came up on the stage and gave us a very authentic folksong - A capella. The final song was by a brave volunteer, known as "Finsterer Fred", who borrowed Edmund's guitar and san an excellent Irish exile song. (As Mr Christy Moore once remarked, the main export of Ireland is people). And with that, the event was over. I think we did well.
So now i'm typing this from a borrowed laptop in the Hub. We missed breakfast, so I think I'll get one of these horribly overpriced sausages inna bun.
Some girl just had me smote for taking her picture. So now,of course, my quest is to get a nice pic of her. *grin*
Just a short message, live from the Discworld Convention. So far, it's Good! Did some light Gofering, some Watch duty, which means basically that you stand around near the entrance of events, and politely mention to people that merchants will tear them to tiny bits if their beverage will find its way to the merchandise.
Of course, lots of people in all kinds of costumes, some more revealing than the others. The corsetting industry is well represented. A good corset is a powerful presentation tool. I did attend the Maskerade, where the most extravagant costumes are shown. Of special note was "Mr. Shiny", basically a disco-ball come to life.
I myself took part in one of the events:
stlemur had an item on the folk songs that were referenced in Monstrous Regiment. Together with Lonecat, countertony, the_hatstand and myself, we performed some of these songs while Edmund explained the significance of the songs. We were playing in the big hall (the Dysk), and there was quite a large audience,much to our surprise. I had specially learned "Johnny has gone for a soldier", and sang that. It was actually well received, go me! We also played and sang "Sweet Polly Oliver", "The World Turned Upside Down", and "Poor Old Soldier". Not to mention a three-part rendition of "Hanging on the old barbed wire". When we came to the end of the story, we still had some minutes left, so I sang "The Band Played Waltyzing Matilda", thoroughly depressing everybody. Can't give anyone the impression that War is actually fun, now can we? After that, Mr. Pratchett himself came up on the stage and gave us a very authentic folksong - A capella. The final song was by a brave volunteer, known as "Finsterer Fred", who borrowed Edmund's guitar and san an excellent Irish exile song. (As Mr Christy Moore once remarked, the main export of Ireland is people). And with that, the event was over. I think we did well.So now i'm typing this from a borrowed laptop in the Hub. We missed breakfast, so I think I'll get one of these horribly overpriced sausages inna bun.
Some girl just had me smote for taking her picture. So now,of course, my quest is to get a nice pic of her. *grin*