08-05-2018, 11:25 AM
Vacations are for *suckers*. Lay about in foreign places with no fixed schedule, letting anarchy rule your waking hours, dealing with crowds of foreign people who just want your money and then want you gone? Heat, no air conditioning, damaging UV rays from the sun? It’s a mug’s game and it will kill you by inches while whispering in a bored tone that you are having the time of you life.
No, sir, none of that “sun/fun” malarkey for me! I’m going on vacation the New American Way!
I’m a gonna work! For *Free*!
My friend Alan, he of Borderlands Books, asked me if I want to dust off my bookselling skills and work their booth at WorldCon, which is being held in San Jose this year. I haven’t been to a con since high school, and World Con is the most literary of the bunch (it is where the Hugos and the John W. Campbells are awarded). It will be shifts at the booth (where more than 20 author events are scheduled, more added daily) then attending Nerd parties with the other denizens of Nerdistan.
Take that, Euro-fools! I get 5 days in an air-conditioned bunker filled with nerds! Enjoy your “culture”, suckers!
No, sir, none of that “sun/fun” malarkey for me! I’m going on vacation the New American Way!
I’m a gonna work! For *Free*!
My friend Alan, he of Borderlands Books, asked me if I want to dust off my bookselling skills and work their booth at WorldCon, which is being held in San Jose this year. I haven’t been to a con since high school, and World Con is the most literary of the bunch (it is where the Hugos and the John W. Campbells are awarded). It will be shifts at the booth (where more than 20 author events are scheduled, more added daily) then attending Nerd parties with the other denizens of Nerdistan.
Take that, Euro-fools! I get 5 days in an air-conditioned bunker filled with nerds! Enjoy your “culture”, suckers!
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.