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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congratulations!
Date: 2006-08-29 01:25 pm (UTC)and you didn't even have to dress up and walk the red carpet, or have your cleavage, gown, and choice of hair style discussed all over the planet...
Congratulations!
Re: congratulations!
Date: 2006-08-30 05:20 pm (UTC)Re: congratulations!
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Date: 2006-08-29 01:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-29 02:08 pm (UTC)'Congratulations' is too mild a word, but not being a famous writer, it will have to do.
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Date: 2006-08-29 02:50 pm (UTC)Wow. I actually know someone who's won a Hugo. Excellent!
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Date: 2006-08-29 05:02 pm (UTC)Dave, you had the biggest Cheshire-cat-grin-cum-top-hat I'd ever seen when you leapt on the stage. Way, way cool!
Gotta love this photo:
http://www.midamericon.org/photoarchive/06worldcon034.JPG
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Date: 2006-08-29 05:14 pm (UTC)Bonus: one of them knew what a Hugo was!
Wow...
Date: 2006-08-29 06:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-29 09:22 pm (UTC)Congratulations
Date: 2006-08-29 09:28 pm (UTC)Re: Congratulations
Date: 2006-08-30 05:30 am (UTC)Whatever I may think of Harlan as a person, there's no denying the impact he's had on the field and I consider it a signal honor to have received the award from his hand.
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Date: 2006-08-30 12:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-08-30 03:15 am (UTC)And you may already have won a HUGO!! Match your personal code numbers with ours on our pseudo-quasi official site: www.waytogoDavid-we'reproudofyou.talebones-alumnus.com
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Date: 2006-08-30 05:43 pm (UTC)If only all spams were like this...
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Date: 2006-09-03 05:24 am (UTC)Actually, it's easy to get a boarding pass without checking a bag. We printed out our boarding passes at home before we left for the airport for Worldcon. The Travel Section of The Post has been telling people to print out boarding passes about 23 hours before the flight leaves due to airline overbooking. One of the hotel we stayed at on our trip advertised that as a perk.
I think the airlines are also encouraging it to cut down on lines. Lots of people at Dulles had printed them out and went right to security if they had just carry on.
Yes, TSA does not run airports. The airlines do. We never had a problem flying with Hugos.
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Date: 2006-09-04 05:07 am (UTC)Please don't let
Oh, and congratulations.
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Date: 2006-09-04 04:37 pm (UTC)And thanks!