5 things, Sunday thunderstorm edition

[truepenny]

1. My story "Fiddleback Ferns" is part of Drabblecast 201: Trifecta XV, along with stories by Jens Rushing and Karen Heuler.

2. Thank you, heresluck, for introducing me properly to Mumford and Sons. Sigh No More is about to go in the stereo for the third time in three days.

3. The Ambien only sort of works. >:\ I'll be trying something else starting tomorrow.

4. Guy riding a Harley Friday afternoon in small-town southeastern Wisconsin? Probably not actually jaylake. But I sure was excited for the split-second I thought maybe it was.

5. A question! I have to give Guest of Honor speeches this year, which is a new experience for me. So tell me, O internets, if you go to a Guest of Honor speech, what do you expect to get? What do you hope for? What would make you tell all your friends they should have come, too?

Comments

[jaylake.livejournal.com]

Nope. Not me. But I appreciate the sentiment!

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Not being of any great help with the five things, but can say this: it's quite a fine thunderstorm (or series thereof), isn't it?

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

I <3 Mumford & Sons very much indeed and I love the local radio station where I first heard them even more.

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Twenty-four hours ago, I had never heard of Mumford and Sons. You are the second person to mention them since last evening. Clearly, this is a sign from the universe that I must go buy their CD right smart quick.

[heresluck]

\o/

(Stealth Shakespeare FTW!)

[papersky.livejournal.com]

You can usually say you'd rather be interviewed than give a speech, and then they'll find someone to ask you questions you can answer, which tends to be much easier.

What I hope for in GoH speeches, and interviews, is awesome anecdotes that help explain how that person is who they are. Like Ken MacLeod talking about how the CIA financed his Trotskyist trip behind the Iron Curtain -- so secretly that he didn't know himself.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

My favorite guest of honor speeches have been anecdotal -- ones that share incidents in the life of the writer that were funny or touching or surprising, or taught them something about their craft.

My least favorite guest of honor speech was basically a manifesto about The Singularity. Of course, if I liked the concept better I might have been more interested, but it felt a little like going to a birthday party and finding out, once you're there, that the birthday girl is trying to sell you Tupperware.