off-year biannual council adjunct advisory board election

I'm running for the Norwescon Guest of Honour Selection Committee. This is an advisory committee that comes up with potential guests to Norwescon. I think four of you can vote, but that's not why I'm posting this here. I think I'm mostly doing it because I just sent it in.

----- Statement for Election - solarbird -----

Vote for me if you want someone on the GoH selection committee who will bring up names from outside the core. If you thought Foolscap's decision to bring in Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade alongside Harlan Ellison as co-Guests of Honour was genius, as I did, and loved the resulting dust-up, as I did, then I am your candidate. If you want someone who will bring in suggestions like Michael Poe (Errant Story), or Jon Kilgannon and Mark Sachs (A Miracle of Science) or Fred Gallagher (Megatokyo), vote for me. If you want someone who tosses out names like Chiho Saito (Revolutionary Girl Utena, possibly the finest effort in high urban fantasy of the 1990s and substantially unknown to mainline fandom) or Rumiko Takahashi (Inu Yasha, Maisan Ikkokou, Ranma 1/2), or, well, anyone from CLAMP studios, vote for me. If you want someone who knows exactly why the word "Daikatana" is still funny, then I am your candidate, and I deserve your vote.

I'll list my own negatives for you: I am not a big reader of modern SF&F novels. I still read and still enjoy reading, and my classics background is pretty solid - particularly in the short-story canon - but I'm not the voracious novel reader others on the committee are. Similarly, I dropped my subscriptions to Asimov's and Analog when I realised they were boring me to tears several years ago. I hated Beggars in Spain. So if the person you want reads the surviving prozines religiously and skulks through the new-novels section every week - or even every month - I'm not her. Similarly, if you're looking for someone to pitch a Big-Name Actor as a guest, then, for the love of god, do not vote for me. I'm the chick who made Scientology jokes in the newsletter when John Travolta showed up, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

But if you want someone who is strongly aware of the alternative forms of fantasy and science fiction, someone who is knowledgeable enough to know, at least, what kind of questions to ask, and where to go asking - that's me. I'm that person. If that's who you're looking for, I am your candidate - and I want your vote.

one of those things that happens on teh internets

Every so often you get kind of blasé and think you've seen pretty much as much shock value as the internet has to offer (I mean, tubgirl hasn't fazed you in years and goatse, hell, that's just old-school lulz) and then you get it into your head to go check out what's new at Encyclopedia Dramatica and you're clicking along and sometimes it's lame and sometimes it's funny and then suddenly you see something and say, "oh. god." and click away and empty your cache and your browser history and clear out all your cookies and log out and go wash some dishes while hoping you've got some brain clorox you can use as soon as you're done because this just. isn't. working.

AND NO I'M NOT LINKING DON'T ASK.