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Food & Con Thoughts
15/7/09 18:18I love farmers' markets.
Today's haul:
- Pea tendrils (to be turned into salad with oranges)
- Sweet corn
- Peaches (small, honeysuckle-fragrant)
- Radishes (does anyone know if you can eat radish greens? If you can, are there any recipies you recommend? There's so many of them, and the radishes are so small).
- Dandelion greens
- A Cauliflower (an impulse buy. It looked healthy, unlike all the other cauliflowers I'd ever seen. I'm going to use it in a Japanese curry).
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More readercon thoughts will likely be pending over the weekend, but for now, please read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sovay's post on the potential future(s) of readercon (she was a member of this year's Con Committee). I know I was and am worried (and, frankly, baffled) about the direction that Readercon may be going in. I hope that my offer of volunteering for something small next year will be noted, and taken up on. I have been to Readercon for 5 years now, and honestly, it's the only 'fan' con--anime, SF or otherwise--that has started to feel like home to me. (I haven't been to WisCon yet; I enjoy WorldCons, especially the art shows, but they're exhausting and the panels aren't as good as at Readercon). I have been excited to see that Readercon has been getting younger and had more persons of color (though the percentage is still abysmal, as coffeeandink--hi, nice to meet you at the con!--points out here, and SF fandom had better address this problem) in attendance since I first started going, and had seemed to buck the trend of other 'fan' cons I'd been to, where I didn't really feel part of the network of fans that make up the con unless I was under 21 or over 40. I hope that Readercon will keep being a welcoming place for writers, creators, and fans of all ages, races, and genders.
A few of the things I was excited about:
- I remain very excited to be able to see some of my favorite authors in the same place. I see my work existing in a continuum and dialog with a lot of the folks I see at Readercon, and pick up on the creative energy I find there, and so it's great to be able to talk to these people in person, and meet some of them for the first time.
- I was very exicted to have my misconceptions about the Interstitial Arts Foundation dispelled by the panel at Readercon this year; so if anyone who is a IAF member is here: thank you!
Today's haul:
- Pea tendrils (to be turned into salad with oranges)
- Sweet corn
- Peaches (small, honeysuckle-fragrant)
- Radishes (does anyone know if you can eat radish greens? If you can, are there any recipies you recommend? There's so many of them, and the radishes are so small).
- Dandelion greens
- A Cauliflower (an impulse buy. It looked healthy, unlike all the other cauliflowers I'd ever seen. I'm going to use it in a Japanese curry).
--
More readercon thoughts will likely be pending over the weekend, but for now, please read
sovay's post on the potential future(s) of readercon (she was a member of this year's Con Committee). I know I was and am worried (and, frankly, baffled) about the direction that Readercon may be going in. I hope that my offer of volunteering for something small next year will be noted, and taken up on. I have been to Readercon for 5 years now, and honestly, it's the only 'fan' con--anime, SF or otherwise--that has started to feel like home to me. (I haven't been to WisCon yet; I enjoy WorldCons, especially the art shows, but they're exhausting and the panels aren't as good as at Readercon). I have been excited to see that Readercon has been getting younger and had more persons of color (though the percentage is still abysmal, as coffeeandink--hi, nice to meet you at the con!--points out here, and SF fandom had better address this problem) in attendance since I first started going, and had seemed to buck the trend of other 'fan' cons I'd been to, where I didn't really feel part of the network of fans that make up the con unless I was under 21 or over 40. I hope that Readercon will keep being a welcoming place for writers, creators, and fans of all ages, races, and genders.A few of the things I was excited about:
- I remain very excited to be able to see some of my favorite authors in the same place. I see my work existing in a continuum and dialog with a lot of the folks I see at Readercon, and pick up on the creative energy I find there, and so it's great to be able to talk to these people in person, and meet some of them for the first time.
- I was very exicted to have my misconceptions about the Interstitial Arts Foundation dispelled by the panel at Readercon this year; so if anyone who is a IAF member is here: thank you!