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Femmeconne was awesome, but made me sick as a dog (I had to get Cam to pick me up early) I mean to write it up later, but anyone who was there and said "Can you email me/post about *blah*" etc please remind me or I'll forget by the time I am well. I blame Felix the adorable lurgy carrying baby.

Just watched the Bollywood film "Om Shanti Om". It's a comedy/romance/drama set in Bollywood (with lots of melodrama about past lives and such), I get the feeling I was missing the context for a lot of the references (even just minor things like the significance of names) but it was still a lot of fun. The trailer has an amusing scene: the main character is doing a tragic love story about a deaf blind amputee, and decides what it really needs is this dance number "The Pain of Disco"(*) (nb the rest of the film contains much less in the way of topless men and blondes in spandex) I also really liked the credits: as in a lot of movies about the film industry, the cast comes out on a red carpet as if attending the film within the film and has the actors real names come up underneath..and then the (afaict entire) crew does this as well. The choreographers in particular clearly enjoyed having chance to dance onscreen :)

( things I remember I said I would do )

Race and feminism Panel

Since people have ASKED even though I am SICK...(and I may have completely forgotten everything that happened at the con after I am better, it's already pretty fuzzy)
( in which I use the word fuzzy a lot )