YOUR CAR IS ON FIRE

[egypturnash]

I'm sitting here at the Museum cleaning out spam via the webmail while the back of my brain percolates on organizing some stuff.

Best spam subject line ever: YOUR CAR IS ON FIRE!

geeze, I miss the days before marketers and scammers got on the net. Along with everyone else. 148/1000 messages over the last few days were not spam, and a good third of the spam was in Russian or Chinese.

Meanwhile, in the past week, I have gone from vaguely thinking "gee, I should get my butt out to some cons" to having loose plans to attend three cons: AC, Rainfurrest, and Foolscap. (The last is a literary SF con, not a furry con, that aprivatefox has been trying to get me to show stuff in the art show of - which is also a week after RF. Which I am considering 'cause I got asked to come do a panel. Not as a GOH or anything so I gotta pay my own way. I will have to see who in Seattle would like to have me and maybe a boyfriend or two hang out for a week...)

This is on top of Absinthe and the art show* at the end of the year. Luckily the biggest project of the year has no firm schedule; Absinthe comes out when it comes out. Which is going to be "soon" for the first chapter, once I spend a couple days not letting myself from getting distracted from pencilling; that and finishing a couple more pages in AI will give me enough buffer that I feel confident I can run the whole first chapter on a two-pages-a-week schedule.

* memo to self: mail Ami when you get home so you can swap Bolton's piece for that print, and talk about the size of the spider show!

Comments

"You and maybe a boyfriend or two"

[krdbuni.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there would be no shortage of interested parties as long as we have some timeframes.

Kristy

Re: "You and maybe a boyfriend or two"

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

Yeah!

Re: "You and maybe a boyfriend or two"

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Rainfurrest: September 18-20 2009, Seatac Marriott.
Foolscap: September 25-27, 2009, Redmond Town Center Marriott.

Not sure when we'd be coming in and leaving, precisely; that's up in the air!

Re: "You and maybe a boyfriend or two"

[krdbuni.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we can make room around those times. Amusingly, my birthday's in that vicinity, so if you do make it to town, we'll have to do something decadent and grotesque in celebration.

Kristy

[jirris-midvale.livejournal.com]

ooh ooh! rainfurrest! <3

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I dunno too much about it except that it happened the weekend after our post-gallery trip to Seattle last year!

[jirris-midvale.livejournal.com]

It was a fun con, even if I was just working a table for it. Very pretty hotel, nice people.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

This! That atrium in the Rainfurrest hotel was amazing. And it was near my old apartment so I could see just how much Hwy 99 changed. XD It was a nice con, it was just big enough to have the critical-mass feeling of "con-ness" as opposed to being just a place for some nerds to find each other.

[aprivatefox.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to stay with us between RF and Foolscap, and also to split hotel with us at Foolscap. =)

As far as paneling goes, I should mention that Foolscap invites attendees who have expertise in fields to sit on relevant panels; it is more collegial than most cons, and the discussions are correspondingly more interesting. As far as I know, they comp no one to the convention except the two GoHs each year. So, you're in very good company as an un-comped panelist at Foolscap. =)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I'm an un-comped panelist at RF, not FC. Sorry about the convoluted sentence syntax!

[aprivatefox.livejournal.com]

Ah! Well, if you pre-reg for Foolscap, you can probably become an un-comped panelist there, too. =) Have you been in touch with their art show yet?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Not yet; it's on my List Of Crap To Do This Week! (along with getting art show info for RF; I already got AC art show info because Nick bugged me to do so after we decided to answer the plea to do something post* for their conbook.)

busy, busy.

[aprivatefox.livejournal.com]

Let me make Foolscap info convenient:

Guidelines are here, and boil down to "This is juried, we want to see new work, it should be good." The jurists will accept you; a few of them saw the tarot and asked me to get you to submit to them. They suggest on the site that you email a URL for your website to them.

So, if you email Tina Klein-Lebbink at artshow@foolscapcon.org, and give her a link to http://egypt.urnash.com/Showcase/ and possibly also http://egypt.urnash.com/tarot/, that will be the necessary first step.

Now there's one less step of tracking-down URLs. =)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks for collapsing my to-do list a few steps.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Mail sent!

[eredien]

Rax and I were thinking of going to AC.

[rax.livejournal.com]

Oh right, we were, weren't we! Your being there would certainly be a bonus.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Hmm! We should discuss transport and/or lodging plans with you. If you have any. We sure don't, yet.

[eddvick.livejournal.com]

Thankful RainFurrest and Foolscap are not on the same weekend as they were last year. I'm on the concom of Foolscap so was not able to get a table at RF. Having seen your work, I'd say there's no doubt you'd get a thumbs-up from the jury.

All members of Foolscap are invited to be panelists if they feel they have the wherewithal to be on said panel(s). The con's at a great hotel that's in a shopping center with good places to eat and hang out.

Oh, and this year we're giving out prizes to people who convince others to attend Foolscap for the first time. Mention aprivatefox when you sign up!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I am not sure if I would have much to add to the panels of a literature-oriented con; I just draw stuff!

I will be sure to mention him. Once I dig up his legal name from somewhere around here...

[robocoon.livejournal.com]

Hey! I'll be at both AC and RF... :D

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Not one, but two chances this year for you to get me drunk and hand my giggly self a sketchbook to defile with funny-but-unpleasant filth!

[robocoon.livejournal.com]

It's a date. B)

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Swap what-what?

I'm trying to manage my chaos, but still want the pieces and still have funds set aside for them. I've been intending to contact you but haven't had a good opportunity and wanted to avoid extra pressure.

I'll try to get you on AIM, or the phone, and you can always email those addresses you were using.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

She still has the one you bought at the show, which I'm gonna take home, add glass to, and FINALLY get on its way to you; there is also a print she sold of the QoC that I had to get Tug to output and haven't gotten to her.

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, cool!