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MidSouth Con 2012

3/26/2012

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Helena, Ben, a couple of Ben's friends, and I went to MidSouth Con this weekend.  It was very entertaining and relaxing. I attended several of the conferences, including "So You Want to Write a Screenplay?"  [See the WHIP entry below], "Brave New Worlds" [a discussion of dystopian science fiction], "Things in Science We Don't Understand" [a panel of physicists, rocket scientists from NASA, etc discussed the things we don't yet know], and a few other ones.  I attended some costuming and garbing sessions with Helena.  

We got to see an excellent Rocky Horror Picture Show with a shadow cast from Memphis.  They did a great job.   It was probably the best shadow cast I've ever seen.  The audience was great, too.  They knew a lot of call-backs.   Of course, that  kept me up until close to 3:00 in the morning.  I'm too damn old to stay up until 3:00 in the morning. I crashed the next night, missing the costume contest.  

Also, we took very few pictures.  I guessed there would be a lot of pictures on the web.  Just use Google Images.  As of last night, there weren't that many pictures, but I'm sure they'll surface.

I bought a few small-press books, as always.  I enjoy reading those sometimes, although my time has been fairly limited and I haven't read nearly as much as I would like to.  One that looked interesting was The Anthology from Hell:  Humorous Stories from WAY Down Under.  The editor was Julia Mandala.  I've read a few of her other works.

I got a book on self-publishing.  At one time when I was teaching at Pulaski Tech in the paralegal program I considered composing my own textbook for Appellate Advocacy.  None of the books out there would fill the bill.  Apparently you can self-publish on CreateSpace (Amazon) and print out fairly economical copies.  It looks like you can print them out for five or ten bucks a piece if you do it right.  I'll have to investigate further.  Right now I barely have time to read the books I want to read.  Is it realistic to expect I'll be able to write one?  I can't even keep up with this blog?

Gerry


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    J.G. "Gerry" Schulze is an amateur linguist who practices law for a living.  For more information see his webpage, which has links to some of his other online activities.

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