Alan Kistler's Latest Profile Up On Monitor Duty

For those of you who enjoy Alan Kistler's comic book character profiles as much as I do:

Alan's finally posted Alan Kistler's Profile On Wonder Woman! (Part One). Enjoy.

Boskone 44 Report

Over the weekend, gnomi and I attended the Boskone science fiction convention. It felt a bit odd to be attending during the shloshim period of mourning, but for me a science fiction convention can be considered a professional conference, so I had no stark religious dilemma about attending. I simply made a point of not attending any parties, and I took myself off a humorous program item I had originally been scheduled on.

Nomi and I had an excellent time at the convention for the most part. Jim & Laurie Mann put together an enjoyable program, as they always do whenever they run programming for a convention. We did have some issues with the hotel, mostly because of the difficulties they had in accommodating our sabbath needs. This is the third time we've gone to a convention in a Westin hotel, and all three times the staff promised us a refrigerator would be delivered "in ten minutes" without ever actually providing one. The last time we stayed at a Westin, the apologetic manager on duty Saturday night asked Nomi how he could make things better, and she suggested that he instruct the staff not to lie to guests. Indeed, if the Westin had just told us in advance that they would not have refrigerators available, we would have figured out other options for our kosher food. Instead, they kept telling us that they would provide us with a fridge, even going so far as to tell us the additional cost for the fridge over the weekend. And then, as I said, no fridge ever appeared.

But I don't really want to go on about the missing refrigerator, or the Brookline cab company that told us that we'd have a cab in ten to fifteen minutes, and then when we called back twenty minutes later told us it would be another fifteen minutes. Instead, let me go through the good stuff that happened at the con, including all the panels we attended.

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And then they closed the con up, and it was time to go home.