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February 13, 2008
Going To Shmoocon Tomorrow!
Haven't blogged in a while because, well, I had a whole blog entry planned about how much I loved the hit documentary, The King of Kong. I rented it and watched it and watched both commentaries all in a row and was just so enthused by the whole experience. I went around all the next couple of days telling people about how cool the movie was. Then, as is so often the case, Jason Scott went and ruined everything by pointing out that it's full of lies. There are three other entries after that first one I just linked to on the subject and they're all worth reading, especially the 8000 word essay where he goes into dire detail about his issues with the film makers and the choices they made. So, yeah, can't really recommend it so much anymore. Disappointing.
I actually just got off the phone with Jason, who'll be at Shmoocon as well, showing scenes from his newest documentary, Get Lamp. Hopefully I'll be able to sit in on the session, although I'm chiefly going to sell me some major bookage, so I'll be out in the vendors area, hawking my wares. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, Shmoocon is a hacker convention in Washington DC that is one of my absolute favorite cons. It's a good size - about 1000 people this year, and full of smart, interesting talks. Plus the Saturday night party always rocks.
Otherwise I've mostly been plugging away on writing stuff for school and finally getting going on the new novel - although I won't pick that up again until next week at this point. Still, it's off to a fun start, and I think it's going to surprise people when it's ready.
Posted by rdakan at February 13, 2008 02:37 PM