BitterCon

[sallytuppence]

Remember BitterCon? That's the con you go to when everybody else is off having fun at World Fantasy or something, and you have to stay home and work and nurse your grudges and cultivate your jealousy until it acquires a critical mass and

Comments

[anonymous]

I bid working in a lawyer's office, writing a brief which has sentences like "consequently, the Trial Court should not have denied Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff Response in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment and Plaintiff Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment, contrary to Rule 6.2"

[anonymous]

That was me, Ilona

[sallytuppence]

Oh yeah, I knew it was you. You have good cause to be bitter.

But do sentences like that, as ugly as they are, beat oral surgery?

[birdhousefrog]

I, too, am here through jlundberg. Man, does he get around at these cons. I was so busy being bitter I forgot to pre-register for Bittercon. But I'll buy a membership at the door.

What they don't have in Texas:
1) lunch in a cafeteria with first graders that include my daughter at 10:45am, all talking at once
2) a 5 mile walk with fall color and country fresh air in a warm down vest
3) my Mouse King story
4) a cuckoo clock
5) a woodstove with fire

Bittercon is turning out so much better. But I'll leave the office work to others...good thing this Bittercon has lots of panels to choose from.

Oz

[sallytuppence]

Howdy! I've been lurking on your blog a bit, though I don't think it was through Jason. Maybe through Good Ol' Mike Jasper? Can't remember.

Anyway, see! We're mixing and mingling and meeting new people! Even better than a con!

[birdhousefrog]

Yes, you're most likely lurking on mine through Jasper, we went to Clarion together. But he hasn't posted today and Jason is soooo good at publishing things like this on his blog! I don't know Jason personally, but I'm beginning to feel like I do. Hey, would you mind if I followed your blog?

This is an absolutely awesome party you're throwing!

Oz

[sallytuppence]

You're very welcome. And I hope you don't mind if I de-lurk once and a while.

It's a pretty good party, but ultimately it makes the bitterness worse...

[livia_llewellyn]

I think Harlan Ellison should be GOH at BitterCon. Seriously, the dude is ALWAYS bitter. ALL THE TIME. He's the Bitter King!

[sallytuppence]

Hah! But we'd have to get somebody to squeeze his boob.

Who would you nominate for that, hmmm?

[livia_llewellyn]

That's a toughie - how about Nicholas "Slappy" Kaufmann (aka nick_kaufmann? I think he'd cheerfully step up to the plate! (before wisely running far, far away...)

[tacithydra]

We should all squeeze his boob. Every time we see him.

"Hey Harlan, how're they hangin'?"

:squish squish::

"Pretty saggy these days, I see."

[charmingbillie]

I am now bitter that I am not the bitterest.

I have worked for years, sent out my bitterness to all the best publishers and have they accepted my bitterness for the quality bitterness it is? No! I ask you--how is that not a conspiracy? How can anyone not see that my bitterness is absolutely the bitterest bitterness ever?

Bitter bitter bitter bitter BITTER!

[Note: once you've used bitter about ten times in one post, it no longer looks right]

[sallytuppence]

*snerk*

hint: cut and paste.

bitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitterbitter

See? Easy.

[charmingbillie]

Oh, sure, now you have out-bittered me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[But I am totally winning on excessive exclamation points.]

[experimeditor]

Sweet! I mean, um, bitter!

[rachel_swirsky]

Hey, we're having a writer's group meeting this weekend! You still get to hang out with cool, cool science fiction people. We're even traveling someplace to do it!

Is it the lack of alcohol that's doing it? I live across the street from John's Grocery. I'll pick us up some vodka.

PAR-TAY!*

*poster is not responsible for any inevitable lack of partying.

[sallytuppence]

That's right, we are! Take that, WFC goers!

Bring the vodka; we can put it in the chocolate shakes, which are to die for.

Literally--five scoops of chocolate ice cream; they're going to give me a heart attack.

Waaa!

[rachel_swirsky]

I'm late to BitterCon. That makes me bitter. Ya know what else they don't have in Texas? Frozen fingers stuttering over keyboards in cold basement offices.

See ya'll tomorrow!

--Lisa B.

Re: Waaa!

[sallytuppence]

Nobody's ever late to BitterCon. It's everywhere and all the time.

1:45 at my house, right?

I need to start critiquing...