World Fantasy moments — me and my beloved elevator, view from the room, free pizza in the SFWA suite — yes, yes, I know New Orleans is a truly great food city, but the pizza was free, people. Several old friends didn’t recognize me between the new hair color and the masks I was wearing […]
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WorldCon moments — the elevators in the Hyatt were weird and complicated and dramatic and gave several people vertigo. But I kind of liked them anyway.
Congrats to Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki for his World Fantasy Award for the anthology, The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)!
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Congrats to Usman Mlk for his World Fantasy Award, for his collection Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan. (Accepted by Ahmad Siddiqi.)
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Fabulous and unexpected dinner last night at Maypop in New Orleans. I had: • bread service — annatto sesame rolls with coconut butter and shellfish pepper jam • roasted marrow bone topped with creole lobster bordelaise, served with pickled shallot, herb salad, Steen’s chili vinaigrette, warm roti bread Both delicious. Plus a little cornbready amuse-bouche;
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A little groggy; had trouble sleeping last night. But in car, on my way to airport for World Fantasy in New Orleans. I’ll be doing an interview for the SLF when I get in (with Ursula Vernon, yay! — I’m a big fan), then I have to Zoom in this evening to the school board
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Part 3! Here’s the finished blouse & sari / lehenga, at the conference hotel. I had a frenzied moment at one point when I thought I’d pack up my sewing machine and take it to the hotel to finish some of it better, and then I thought, no — do what you can at home,
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So, what is a sari? It’s generally 6 yards (although that varies) of fabric (that should be long enough to go from your waist to the floor, with a few extra inches for tucking). That’s it. I, of course, had to make it harder — I’d recently worn a sari which had a nice layer
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Okay, so here I chronicle my attempt to make a sari and blouse from 1 – 3 a.m., during ChiCon. Um. It didn’t go exactly as planned. Step 1 — making the blouse. I had previously bought and downloaded a sari blouse pattern, and immediately realized that making a proper sari blouse (which is very
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Last moments at ChiCon on Monday — Thai dinner with Dan, I think at Star of Siam. Just lovely. I’ll come back sometime soon with some posts about the sewing project for my Hugo outfit, but right now, I need to take Kavi shopping for her Homecoming dress, and after that, I think I’m going
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