8/28/06: Hugos there
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davidlevineThe complete voting results and details are here. Some photos from the award ceremony can be found here.
I just got back from Los Angeles tonight, after being off-Net for the last week, and I will respond to the many congratulatory emails as soon as I get a chance. One thing that's slowing the process down is that I have to examine all the spams with subject lines like "Congratulations!" and "You won!" to see if any of them are actually from friends of mine.
A proper con report is forthcoming, but I thought I ought to clear up a few things:
- Humping Harlan's leg. As you probably already know, I am a toon. I can and will do anything as long as it's funny. In particular, I will often put one leg behind the other person when engaged in a big fat hug. This is a joke I've done so often I just about can't stop myself. Under the circumstances it seemed the thing to do. Soon it will be all over the net... but I survived the Chicken Suit Incident, and I'll survive this. Most people seemed pleased by my enthusiasm.
- Breaching the sake keg. All I can say is that I did the best I could with the inadequate mallet provided, and I sure hope that failure to break the lid on the first blow isn't a bad omen.
- Does winning the Hugo help your career? So far, signs are positive. I've already received offers for Czech and Italian rights for the winning story, been solicited to contribute to an anthology, and received at least one email with the subject line "No One I've Seen Naked Has Ever Gotten A Hugo Before (I Think)." Well, maybe that last one isn't really a career thing.
- Getting the Hugo home. There was much discussion and
debate at-con about the advisability of attempting to bring a large,
heavy, and very pointy rocket-shaped object in carry-on luggage.
I thought I was being practical when I decided I'd ask at the
security gate if I could carry it on, and if the answer was no I'd
put it in my checked luggage. But no, practicality and the TSA
have nothing to do with each other. Consider this Catch-22: I
couldn't get an opinion from the TSA agent as to whether I could
bring a bag on board until it had been X-rayed; I couldn't go through
the X-ray line without a boarding pass, nor could I hand my bag to
the TSA agent to be X-rayed; and even if I could get a boarding
pass without checking my checked bag, it would be rejected when I
took it through the security line.
The best I could hope for was an awkward and peculiar boarding process involving a minimum of two passes through the very slow security line, whether or not the Hugo passed X-ray muster. So to save time I just packed it in the middle of my checked bag. Which arrived on time and in good shape. The trophy's on the Radiola in the dining room right now.
See also Kate's perspective.
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Date: 2006-08-29 06:03 am (UTC)So much for the non-creative world of square dancing!
Yahoo!
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Date: 2006-08-29 06:07 am (UTC)Just letting you know, in case you might confuse it for cowboy porn spam or something. :-)
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Date: 2006-08-29 06:16 am (UTC)Congratulations!
(You beat out MIKE RESNICK?!)
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Date: 2006-08-30 05:44 am (UTC)To my great surprise, Resnick came in FOURTH. Details here: http://cluebytwelve.net/Hugos2006/04_Short_Story.htm (let me know if you need an explanation of the voting system).
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Date: 2006-08-30 05:58 am (UTC)Love the Rockettes pic.
Wow!
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Date: 2006-08-30 05:12 pm (UTC)Thanks! :-)
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Date: 2006-08-29 06:57 am (UTC)Very cool, indeed.
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Date: 2006-08-29 07:07 am (UTC)I'm going off to polish all those photos of us together now, and haul in a tanker truck of stout so I can invite friends around and gloat about how I know you.
(Seriouslty, well done. It's brilliant news, and I know how much it means to you. Proud on your behalf, man.)
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Date: 2006-08-30 06:54 am (UTC)And yes, it does mean a heck of a lot to me, since I've been a fan since I was 16. And I got the award from Harlan Ellison! Who, no matter what I may think of him personally, is definitely a significant figure in the field.
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Date: 2006-08-29 08:47 am (UTC)Well done.
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Date: 2006-08-29 10:15 am (UTC)I hope you've got somewhere cool to put that rocketship!
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Date: 2006-08-29 11:17 am (UTC)Congratulations!!
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Date: 2006-08-30 05:15 pm (UTC)If you ever want to find out how much one of your stories sucks, get it nominated for a major award. Nomination means that people who don't like that kind of story -- who otherwise probably would not have read it, or might not have posted their opinion, will read it and post about it. Based on the pre-convention reviews I figured I didn't have a chance, so it's really cool to hear that people actually liked it.
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Date: 2006-08-29 11:33 am (UTC)http://pics.livejournal.com/safewrite/pic/0002bdsy/g31
Conga-rats!
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Date: 2006-08-29 12:17 pm (UTC)Congratulations and continued success!
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Date: 2006-08-29 12:56 pm (UTC)Congratulations!