Public policy, social issues, gender politics, religion, civitas, and other taboo topics fall under the hammer of Shava's iconoclasmic force of natural philosophy.
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Report from the time traveller's convention
Monday, May 09, 2005
9:24 AM
Well, only a few percent of us arrived in costume (I will take the comment from one videographer that I looked like I was from Japan in the future as a compliment). It took well over an hour to get started, some of the talks were interesting, one of the skits was clever but didn't end well, and apparently about 99% of the attendees had missed the bit in the invite that said that refreshments were potluck.
The countdown at 10pm waiting for the time travellers to arrive (hey, I was there already!) was underwhelming.
In the sandy volleyball pit, two metal sheets (like storm-cellar doors) were marked with the logo for the convention, and warning borders about the edges that read "ACHTUNG!" amid their red hazard hatchmarks. The doors were roped off with yellow tape on poles. A bit of dry ice added smoke atmospherics. Next to the doors were carefully saran-wrapped milk and cookies, such as you'd set out for Santa.
Of course, there were too many people for everyone to be able to see the small hatch -- the event got limited to 475. I was amused to see people taking pictures over the heads of the crowd with their cell phones and trying to figure out what they were looking at.
At 10pm, we had a 60-second Times-Square style countdown -- at which point, nothing happened. So after a few seconds of anti-climax, some folks stole the cookies, and the crowd dispersed, some back to Walker for the music, some elsewhere.
But rather than returning for the post-punk eclectic loud music after 10pm, my friend Sam and I went to w20 to talk about the nature of knowledge and tradition and many other things, so the evening was a good one.
To the credit of the organizers, it's the end of the school year, inauguration week at the 'tute, and it's amazing they could pull off anything at all! So good job all around. Hard job to live up to a build-up like that.
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