Pour
les films, mes gouts vont vers la même chose qu'en matière de
livres : la SF mais aussi ce que j'appelle des films cons (comme
dodge ball) ou les films d'horreur, les films de kitano et de
miasaki.
and
erstwhile den mother to Ad Nauseam, the mediaeval and Renaissance
dance music consortium of the Barony of Lions Gate and the Shire of
Eisenmarche. ... )I'm also known as Baby Cthulhu for the
7-foot-tall green-and-purple plush costume I sometimes wear at SF
conventions.
They
see media fans and assign a stigma to the media they are consuming.
What the panel name seems to be getting at though, is the general
license to consume mainstream media sf that allows these properties
to be hugely successful while literary fans seem to work from a
much smaller population base
I've gotten two bites so far: a big megahotel in
DOwntown Oakland, for a front office manager position, and a
smaller (but still fairly big at 400 rooms) luxury hotel right by
the Ferry Terminal in SF, as a bellman. I don't know what to do,
because both have pros and cons.
had someone comment on my Interests, that as I have listed
Ren-Faires, SFcons, Fantasy etc. That I must be a Trekkie or
Furry type.Er, no.I go to those venues as a merchant/dealer. I
dress up in comfortable costumes because I have to and I am there
to WORK.I do love to read SF/F, and history.
Sci-Fi ConventionPolitical
ConventionMusic FestivalNew Years Eve in Times SquareThe SFcons I
tend to like also have decent folk/filk circles, and we call the
camp we make it the Winnipeg Folk Fest a convention, so that's an
easy answer.
There are no cons. Here's a big pro. Also: great music scene,
reasonable weather, beautiful landscape. My understanding of it is
that it's a smaller, less gay SF.