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[lsanderson]

Spend almost all of yesterday running around to the Dig.It festival. Three panels in the morning, the first theoretically at 9:00 started much closer to 9:30. Two guys from Fallon wuz there, talking about & showing BMWFilms which wuz waay kewl. I'd not realized the effort began here. They showed the Guy Ritchie film, which was much appreciated. One guy from Carlson Marketing, one from Best Buy, and one from the NBC Shopping Network. The second panel was a bunch of digital film makers (if you can call them that), then I ran out to grab something to eat. The afternoon panel was an interactive media guy, who'd help build the American High website and another interactive site on the PBS website. Less interesting than the others, and I dashed home to dress in black, throw the beer and cider in the trunk, grab my bat mask, and head over to the MNSTF meeting/Halloween part at DreamPark.

Like Laurel, I was slightly hesitant about it.  Exchanged about two words with Laurel, and I should have really talked to her.

I'd two other film events at the Walker, one at six, one at eight, and a detour to Kelly's party in exciting Brooklyn Center. I ran in the door with one Guinness, ran around drinking it, talked to a few friends Drewan wuz wearing some hot leather chaps, and Laurel was dressed to kill. Joe was in full Star Trek drag. I, looking tres chic in black, complete with my new leather bat mask on upside down on my head...

• Dissed last year's programming with Michael Lee after he said he was running programming this year at ConVergence. (Yes, I do chew my own feet a lot.) I really enjoy talking with him, and I'm sure he'll do an awesome job on programming at ConVergence.

• Talked to Laura about a Buffy panel at Minicon.

• Kvetched to Laura, Joe & Drewan

• Sorta slightly avoided the dressed-to-kill Laurel

Waited around until the official five-minute business meeting was over and then dashed down to the Walker. Where the video, a German movie about designing shopping centers, was badly dubbed. The subtitles kept wandering around on the screen (when they wuz visible at all), and the screen border kept meandering up and down the screen. I assume it was problems from the PALS conversion... They offered everybody their money back, but I stayed and watched. There was not enough time to get back to DreamPark or Brooklyn Center, and to get back to the Walker by 8:00 when the Star Wars parodies started. Plus, I ustta be able to speak German in the long ago, at least enough to get around when I lived in Műnchen. (There was the time I got two friends jobs at the Bavarian StaatsOper... but that's a long story.)

The guy they brought in to introduce the Star Wars films was really great. He talked about Intellectual Property, fans, folk tales, and Star War parodies. He would make an awesome con guest. (Although, I suspect the Walker paid him more than a con would or could.)

The Star Wars parodies were really kewl, but a bit too long, and the sexual content slightly exceeded the age of some of the audience members, but it wuz an art gallery, after all, not a kiddie cartoon festival. Elizabeth, Doug, and Roscoe showed up. Roscoe had earlier in the day, won a soccer tournament in sudden death, but he was being very cool about it. Switching from one video source to another also ate up a bit of time. They finished very close to 10:30, and after a few words with Elizabeth, Roscoe & Doug, off I ran to Brooklyn Center.

Kelly's party was still going strong when I got there. Played a few rounds of a game, drank a couple of slushes, then sat around and talked until about 1 or so. Drove back into the city, and headed home to sleep instead of back to see if MNSTF was still going. Should have slipped an espresso in there someplace.