Wiscon Day 2 - Report 5
Jun. 4th, 2008 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julieandrewsAfter the opening ceremonies, I went back to the room and found a classmate! Hereafter referred to as K1, she and I were sharing the room. She gave me this awesome gift, as a few other people have blogged about (see if you can find them!). It's a notebook she made herself and it has a Japanese theme. I haven't downloaded any of my pics yet, and I won't promise pics, because I'm bad about that. But I may later post a pic. :)
My night was winding down, but first, a panel!
Not Just Japan: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
M: Rachel Kronick, Vandana Singh, K. Joyce Tsai
K2 and N (S's husband) -- see if you can keep track of the players without a scorecard or even their names. ;) -- attended this panel as well. The panel had compiled a bibliography beforehand, which was really useful. They've posted it online; I think if you visit the Wiscon lj community, that's where it was posted. I learned the difference between manga, manhwa and man.. okay, no, I didn't learn it, as I can't even remember what the third one was and may have spelled the second wrong. Plus, I already knew 'manga' was only the Japanese word. But, someone in the audience may have learned the difference!
Vandana said something about cultural appropriation that made enough sense to me that I wrote it down. Paraphrased. That the author is taking a culture and presenting it to their own culture as the audience. With the mindset that the people from the culture they're using aren't their audience, their audience is rather their own people. If my attempts to explicate it there didn't make sense, let me include exactly what I wrote down. "They aren't my audience. I'm taking their stuff and presenting it to my people, my audience."
Of all the things mentioned, I think the only one I'd read/seen was "Koi... Mil Gaya" which is basically a Bollywood version of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "ET". It had caught my eye at the library one day. It was odd. It was my first real Bollywood movie if you don't count "Bride and Prejudice". I'll take suggestions for others to watch!
There were a few panels in the next timeslot, but none appealed to me enough to attend. I made my first visit to the consuite instead. I was amazed. I'd heard good things about the consuite.. free food, really? Here's some of what they had: Veggies and dip, fruit, crackers and cheese, pizza, hot dogs, popcorn, soda. Other stuff too, but of less appeal to me.. like tea or coffee or whatever, and candy doesn't count as real food. I would've gone for pizza, but it looked like their default was pepperoni. There was a sign that if you wanted cheese, you had to ask for it and wait up to 20 minutes for it to be cooked. Why is it only me that thinks cheese should always be the default?
It wasn't clear in the consuite itself that they had veggie hot dogs, but they did. They were SmartDogs, which may have also been vegan and/or gluten free, but I dunno. SmartDogs aren't my choice of veggie hot dog, but they're better than Tofu Pups. Their main drawback is they're small, so the bun dwarfs them. The buns seemed to be all white too. Cheaper, perhaps, but not health-conscious!
I never did try any popcorn. A shame. The soda was in real soda machines, which is great. I don't know why it always tastes better from one of those things.
Then I went back to the room for sleep! This was probably around 10:15-10:30. I could've looked in at the parties, but I think exhaustion won out.
My night was winding down, but first, a panel!
Not Just Japan: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
M: Rachel Kronick, Vandana Singh, K. Joyce Tsai
K2 and N (S's husband) -- see if you can keep track of the players without a scorecard or even their names. ;) -- attended this panel as well. The panel had compiled a bibliography beforehand, which was really useful. They've posted it online; I think if you visit the Wiscon lj community, that's where it was posted. I learned the difference between manga, manhwa and man.. okay, no, I didn't learn it, as I can't even remember what the third one was and may have spelled the second wrong. Plus, I already knew 'manga' was only the Japanese word. But, someone in the audience may have learned the difference!
Vandana said something about cultural appropriation that made enough sense to me that I wrote it down. Paraphrased. That the author is taking a culture and presenting it to their own culture as the audience. With the mindset that the people from the culture they're using aren't their audience, their audience is rather their own people. If my attempts to explicate it there didn't make sense, let me include exactly what I wrote down. "They aren't my audience. I'm taking their stuff and presenting it to my people, my audience."
Of all the things mentioned, I think the only one I'd read/seen was "Koi... Mil Gaya" which is basically a Bollywood version of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "ET". It had caught my eye at the library one day. It was odd. It was my first real Bollywood movie if you don't count "Bride and Prejudice". I'll take suggestions for others to watch!
There were a few panels in the next timeslot, but none appealed to me enough to attend. I made my first visit to the consuite instead. I was amazed. I'd heard good things about the consuite.. free food, really? Here's some of what they had: Veggies and dip, fruit, crackers and cheese, pizza, hot dogs, popcorn, soda. Other stuff too, but of less appeal to me.. like tea or coffee or whatever, and candy doesn't count as real food. I would've gone for pizza, but it looked like their default was pepperoni. There was a sign that if you wanted cheese, you had to ask for it and wait up to 20 minutes for it to be cooked. Why is it only me that thinks cheese should always be the default?
It wasn't clear in the consuite itself that they had veggie hot dogs, but they did. They were SmartDogs, which may have also been vegan and/or gluten free, but I dunno. SmartDogs aren't my choice of veggie hot dog, but they're better than Tofu Pups. Their main drawback is they're small, so the bun dwarfs them. The buns seemed to be all white too. Cheaper, perhaps, but not health-conscious!
I never did try any popcorn. A shame. The soda was in real soda machines, which is great. I don't know why it always tastes better from one of those things.
Then I went back to the room for sleep! This was probably around 10:15-10:30. I could've looked in at the parties, but I think exhaustion won out.