What a big weekend! I’ve just spent the past two days behind a table publicising the Australian Discworld Convention and converting (corrupting?) people to the goodness and cleverness that is Pterry Pratchett. Armageddon is a wonderfully exciting pop culture convention and the name lends itself to all sorts of puns, some of them are Pratchett in nature and some not. When I mentioned it on Discworld Monthly on Facebook people suggested I remember Ronnie Soak as the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse…there are some things that are very peculiar to Discworld fans.

It was a massive weekend with lots happening on and around my table as well as other tables, signing booths, photography type stuff and panels. I didn’t make it to a single panel, bearing in mind we had luminaries such as Margot Kidder, Jenna Coleman, Kevin Eastman, Terry Brooks and Robert Rankin I should have at least gone to one of them. I totally missed seeing the signing queues, just looking at the queues is something I love doing…don’t know why. I was introduced to Terry Brooks and had a slight melt down afterwards, I do hope I was sensible while talking to him. Managed to have a handful of words with Robert Rankin and didn’t melt down afterwards!

There were so many costumes, people are so clever. I took lots of photos and when I have a chance later today to look at them all I’ll make some decisions as to the rest of this week. If I have enough photos I might just dedicate this week to Armageddon and celebrating people’s talent. I know I have enough Doctor Who photos and Lords of the Rings but whether I can make things stretch beyond that is something I’ll find out. If I do I’ll be cancelling Mondayitis for this week but if I don’t I have a Deltora Quest which I’ve been planning and that’s highly appropriate.