Brief Boskone wrapup

So I'm in the lobby of the Sheraton Boston, where there's free wifi for hotel guests, though the hotel doesn't go out of its way to actually tell you this or anything. And I'm exhausted and just starting to come out of the alcohol fog I acquired last night and I'm totally and utterly rejuvenated creatively, in a lot of ways. The two primary things that are stick with me from this con:

• I couldn't believe how many people showed up for my solo half-hour discussion this morning on The Princess Bride. I read a bit from the manuscript for my upcoming book Behind the Screen: The Princess Bride, and everyone laughed and hallelujahed in the right places, and that was really gratifying. I resolve to continue writing about movies...

• On the other hand, I was entirely outclassed at the panel on blogging. There was Kathryn Cramer, who is teaching people how to use Google Earth to investigate natural disasters and taking on corporate criminals and private militaries, and Cory Doctorow, who is pushing back hard against all who would limit personal privacy and intellectual freedom, and there was me, who blogs about LEGOs and movies and Dilbert cartoons. I felt like the little kid temporarily granted permission to sit with the grownups. I resolve to try to get a bit more serious in my blogging...

Next con: I'll be popping into Lunacon in New Jersey next month, just for the Saturday, though I don't know if I'll be on any panels -- I need to talk to the con organizers about that. But I will definitely be speaking at I-Con on Long Island at the end of March. And I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll be able to go to WorldCon in Los Angeles in August, and that the con will actually want me to speak. Working on that...