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May. 29th, 2011 07:06 pmWe went to BayCon this weekend. I hate the hotel (the Hyatt in Santa Clara), but I had a good time at the con. Chaz was on some panels, including one with members of Book View Cafe, an online book store that has an interesting blog, interesting articles about its authors, and sells e-books (unhindered by DRM) of novels, short stories, and anthologies.
Saturday night I had dinner with Chaz,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
acanthusleaf, aberwyn, and madrobins at Kabul, one of my favorite restaurants here in Sunnyvale. As you might guess from the name they serve Afghan food, and even though this was high school graduation weekend we managed to get the last available table. The food and conversation was excellent. Pretty much anything that Kabul serves that has yoghurt and meat sauce on it tastes heavenly. Chaz and I split an appetizer of aushak (onion dumplings in yoghurt and meat sauce) and a side order of kadu (baked pumpkin in, you guessed it, yoghurt and meat sauce), and we each had chicken and lamb kabobs. Mmmm. I brought half my meal home in a box so I could also have firnee for dessert, a rice pudding with pistachios in it. Mmmm.
Today I went to a panel on the evolution of women characters, which was interesting but mostly focused on television shows, so I didn't get any names of new books to look for. I think everyone should buy Desdaemona, but that's just me.
I also enjoyed the panel "A Shot Rang Out", where the panelists draw suggestions from the audience out of a hat, and weave whatever they pull out into the story. Both my suggestions were used. "The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel" ended up the story, but one of the popular ones was my "sex-crazed box turtles" suggestion. I wonder where I thought that up? Two of the panelists were Dani and Eytan Kollin, two brothers and writers who were very entertaining in different ways. They wrote The Unincorporated Man, a science fiction novel that I bought at the con, about a future where human beings are corporations and need to become majority shareholders in their own stock so they can control their futures. Looks interesting.
We are now at home catching up on the internets. Tomorrow we may do something new and daring in our relationship, like go somewhere new, that's not a convention, that's not even planned. Stay tuned to find out where ('cause I don't know).
Oh, and Chaz got a new coachman's hat. I think he looks fabulous.
( Here's a picture )
Saturday night I had dinner with Chaz,
acanthusleaf, aberwyn, and madrobins at Kabul, one of my favorite restaurants here in Sunnyvale. As you might guess from the name they serve Afghan food, and even though this was high school graduation weekend we managed to get the last available table. The food and conversation was excellent. Pretty much anything that Kabul serves that has yoghurt and meat sauce on it tastes heavenly. Chaz and I split an appetizer of aushak (onion dumplings in yoghurt and meat sauce) and a side order of kadu (baked pumpkin in, you guessed it, yoghurt and meat sauce), and we each had chicken and lamb kabobs. Mmmm. I brought half my meal home in a box so I could also have firnee for dessert, a rice pudding with pistachios in it. Mmmm.Today I went to a panel on the evolution of women characters, which was interesting but mostly focused on television shows, so I didn't get any names of new books to look for. I think everyone should buy Desdaemona, but that's just me.
I also enjoyed the panel "A Shot Rang Out", where the panelists draw suggestions from the audience out of a hat, and weave whatever they pull out into the story. Both my suggestions were used. "The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel" ended up the story, but one of the popular ones was my "sex-crazed box turtles" suggestion. I wonder where I thought that up? Two of the panelists were Dani and Eytan Kollin, two brothers and writers who were very entertaining in different ways. They wrote The Unincorporated Man, a science fiction novel that I bought at the con, about a future where human beings are corporations and need to become majority shareholders in their own stock so they can control their futures. Looks interesting.
We are now at home catching up on the internets. Tomorrow we may do something new and daring in our relationship, like go somewhere new, that's not a convention, that's not even planned. Stay tuned to find out where ('cause I don't know).
Oh, and Chaz got a new coachman's hat. I think he looks fabulous.
( Here's a picture )
