2011-11-22

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2011-11-22 12:20 am
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Whirlwinding

At around 10:30 Friday night, I decided to go to Philadelphia to see s00j in what I believed to be her last concert of 2011.

I bundled some things together and grabbed the red eye bus down south.

At 1:30 pm Saturday, I arrived at PhilCon, where I was greeted by shadesong.

At 2pm, I showed up at s00j's autograph table and pointed out I had nothing for her to sign. I do think the look of slight incredulity at my presence was kind of worth it. We determined that I see her in the fall, because that is when my s00j is in alignment. Now we have a story, which means now there are rules.

Her performance, accompanied by the superb Heather Dale, was tremendous.

I then spent the night party hopping to keep awake, smooched the cute geek girl who speaks 5 languages (as you do), and left the hotel at 6:30 am to head back to Montreal, crawling into my apartment at 8pm.

I violated horsetraveller's rule, but sometimes the point is that one did the journey.

Overall, however, PhilCon seemed pretty stale. I did enjoy shooting Jedi, however, and got to kidnap Doctors and make them pose next to the TARDIS corset, so there was definitely fun to be had.
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2011-11-22 04:19 pm

Heather Dale - Fairytale

Listening to Heather Dale's new CD, I can't get over how much she sounds like Holly Cole in it. Not what I was expecting, really, but given that I like jazz standards and torch singers, I'm not complaining.

UPDATE: Not all of it, of course. Skeleton Woman isn't that style at all. (And I really need to hand this over to Hobbes, since that's one of the stories he likes to tell.)