[PS] Brainstorming notes from Sunday October 22

[Jack Dietz]

I was typing as fast as possible and truncating, but many of these  
sound amusing.

Jack

Filk
--Drum Circle?  More in Events
--Drumming 101 panel before Drum Circle (Howitt)
--(already in Zambia) Fairy music from literature?  Dragonsong  
series, Mercedes Lackey stuff
--Music Your Parents Don't Understand
--Anime music videos (youtube sorts of things) (already in Zambia)
--Filk across languages? How do you translate the humor AND the  
rhythm AND the meaning?
--Filk around the world (Japanese, German, etc)
--Japanese stuff in general, preparing us for Worldcon Japan
--Childrens' filk, not in Fast Track, talking about filk songs  
intended for children

Late Nite
--Twisted childrens' song lyrics: "Are We Really Back At Camp Yet?"
   --Adult lyrics for Charlie on the MTA?

Events and Programming has to have a sit-down; LARPs and Gaming are  
split now

Literature
--Napoleonic war from the French side?  Almost no literature, no  
alternative history translated into English?
--Historical lyrics, poetry (September's idea) limericks about  
historical events (King George's madness, etc)

Need to replace Persis after next year--who will replace her after  
next year?

Fan Interest
--"Lifestyles"
   --Fandom and Vanilla?  Is it OK?  Be all vanilla with each other  
in a room.
   --Kids vs Non-Kids: "Childfree" vs "How can you be so thoughtless  
to MY kids?"
     --Free-range children are bad; our crowd isn't necessarily all  
unicorn farts and rainbows (molesters), plus your child's behavior  
reflects on you
   --Fandom's culture, the Fallacies (no one must be excluded from  
anything, even if they have No Clue Whatsoever) (we're not all  
friends, even though we all hang out in similar places online)
     --How has Livejournal changed social interactions vs. listservs/ 
usenet/newsletters
     --Joining a fandom is not a social life in a can
       --Arisia is being run by a "clique"?  People are running  
things because they showed up (and didn't piss everybody off)
     --gadflies
   --Social Skills for People with Aspergers: Things 1,2,3,4 if you  
fix them you'll get along OK
     --Grumpy Old Curmudgeons, where what was cute when you were 19  
no longer works when you're 45; Intensity of conversation becomes  
ranting; Pontificating fans taking over parties
       --Graying of fandom, is it largely the people who never did  
end up learning?  Big gap between 17 and 30 in our attendance. (We're  
doing a teen panelists panel)
       --Gaming, anime don't appear to be given a big focus at cons  
these days, but new fans may see that there was no attention given at  
all
         --Gaming for Old Fogies, panel idea
         --Hugos had a category for games, it had no nominations
   --Why do women end up better socialized than men?  Adjusting  
yourself to social forms?  Flaming on line?

Media
--New Dr Who panels, Torchwood, Sarah Jane series next year, revival  
of old series? (When I Was A Kid, Daleks Couldn't Go Up Stairs)
--Old and New: Dr Who, BSG, new Transformers?  Are series reboots  
faithful to the original, good updates for our new cynical  
generation, or just cashing in?
--BBC vs American practices: selling one season's worth, then coming  
back and selling the next vs running episodically forever

Food
--Kitchen knife handling course
--Hygiene Ninjas, little bars of soap, etc

I Don't Know: "The Convocation of Weirdian Isles" sounds like  
basically a conclave of people representing different fan activities;  
that wouldn't have a lot of draw opposite the Masquerade

How to attract volunteers?  How do we do free rooms and such, if  
that's what people expect in order to come and present to us?  How do  
we attract the younger crowd?  How can we improve volunteer  
compensation for people?  Rooms seem too expensive?
--DragonCon doesn't give a room to its AGoH, but pays appearance fees  
to actors
--We don't want to be a media con
--How many special guests can we have, how can we spread special  
guestships around to attract repeat program participants?
-- More convention scoping stuff.

Gaming (later, from Lisa A-G)
--How to keep a party together?  Either during a dungeon or outside  
of a dungeon; how to keep the party going when it splits, or how do  
you keep the people no longer "needed" for a quest from bailing on  
the game?
--Best Games You've Never Heard of?  Boardgames out of print, in  
other languages; computer games abandoned when the hardware platforms  
became obsolete.  (web sites: "The Underdogs")