Writing and whatnot

My Balticon this year started with it being my job to procure the truck to convey the necessary gear from the Baltimore Science Fiction Society building to the hotel.

Well, really my Balticon started at the last year's Tech party when the TD position was informally handed over to me from my predecessor, who was planning to run for Vice Con Chair at the next election. Or perhaps at the meeting in September when he was formally voted into that position, and I was Formally Asked to be the TD, but by then the planning work had already started.

Anyway. Our usual truck driver had largely parted ways with the group a couple years ago, and his last year's substitute was out of town, so I recruited the new and eager and very competent stagehand from my last production (henceforth dubbed SuperStageHand for his ability to lift heavy objects - and persons - casually one-handed) to be the driver.

I suppose I should spend a moment detouring to said last production, which NoLablels directed and I produced and stage managed. This was Oscar Wilde's Salome, poetically based on the biblical story of the beheading of John the Baptist and staged as a 1990s media-fest. We got a whole lot of awesome new actors out of it, who reported having much fun, as did the audiences. And I did my best to make sure that all the things that needed to happen would happen at the right time, from scheduling auditions to calling the show and many things in between, and I have memories to reflect upon fondly throughout.

Back to Balticon. ( With happy moments, multitudinous mishaps, and a surprise water feature )