Mis/Disused Morning?

Getting up at about 8am, we went to Oded and Karen’s new apartment where I helped them put in the doors and stuff. The place looks very good but the landlady sounds and pretty much acts like my old Bible teacher. Nasty.
Karen proceeded to her Math studies while Oded went off to work and I was dropped at the front of the Eshkol building for the second day of Icon.

At a fashionably late 10:15 I entered Dotan Dimet’s lecture ‘RPG 101’. I thought, having played, almost without exception, only freeform RPGs, this lecture could enlighten me a bit. It didn’t. It was really for people who had no idea what an RPG is. He explained about what it is, what are the methods, how it’s done and why. It was very informative but I was definitly not the target audience.

After the lecture I met Little Dragon Egg at the ticket stand and promised her I’ll also get tickets to Uber Goober for her. After that, I went to meet with my brother, Amichay, at the Cinemateque ticket office. We bought the tickets for Uber Goober and then just walked around and looked around. We had something to eat and watched the crazy people whacking each other on the cinemateque lot.

Uber Goober was a very cool movie. I won’t elaborate on what it is. If you don’t know, you can find out for yourself from the many links I’ve strewn about the post. It was really about the gamers. Lots of gamers, lots of cliches and lots of anti-cliches. The Great Lukeski was there and it was cool.

At 16:00 we split up. Amichay went to the conspiracy theories lecture by Emanuel Lotem and I went to the Hebrew Authors Panel. It was incredibly funny and informative. I also got a chance to talk to Dorit Landes who actually blew Guy, Lavi, Vered and Nir’s minds away with her response on the audience questions round. She is the main editor of… of… of a publishing house who’s name currently escapes me. Very important person.

When that was done, I just walked around the Eshkol for a few minutes until I entered the Tim Powers Artist Lecture. It’ll be too much to sum up what he said but I must say that among all the people I’ve heard talking about how to write and improve your fiction, he was probably the most helpful of them all. I told him that when he finished and then talked to him some more about his work. He ended up thanking me and I felt that it should be the other way around…

Amichay and me met after I was done harrasing a famous author and we ended up teaching three kids how to play Cannibal Pigmies in the Jungle of Doom. As expected, it was an instant hit and I had to force the guy to my right to Roll the Credits because I wanted to leave in favour of the musical.

The Buffy ‘Once More, With Feeling’ musical required me to run about two kilometers from the Tel-Aviv Cinemateque to the Tel-Aviv Museum. I was a bit out of breath when I got there but fortunatly, the play started only about 15 minutes later.
If you don’t know, the musical, like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, is a fan-based performance of the original episode because it was such a cult base and was, is, and probably still will be, the most popular, love, and to my opinion, one of the best, episodes in the series.
Just like six months ago, in Olamot Con, it was great. This time they added two more original segments and translated the entire play into Hebrew. It was awesome, very well done and incredibly funny. The production value was also raised a few notches. Unlike the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which I think is plainly sick, this one was great and I recommend it to anyone who ever watched buffy, likes the Israeli side of things and has a sense of humor.

After walking back the two kilometers (There were lots of people around and it was hard to avoid singing the songs from the play), I ended up back at Soduk for a sausage toast (Which are great, by the way) and was on my way to watch A Wicked Tale when Oded called and said he wanted to call it a day so we went back to his place to get some sleep.


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