More B'con recaps. Take a long, slow look at the picture there. Dark, sticky carpet with the geometric pattern to hide the dirt. Suicide railings about three inches below code. During last week's conference I called the Embassy Suites "the ghetto" but then again Swierczynski and Chercover and Olson stayed there so maybe I'm too quick to judge. Come on, Kieran, it was not that bad. OK, the breakfast buffet was passable, but I'm a former chef and wary of anything "touched" by knuckle-dragging third shifters who can't cut the prime time on the line. And yeah, they gave me a cheese plate when my room wasn't ready (lots and lots of cheddar for some reason) but could someone please explain the habit-trail entrance maze, dreary, cigarette-peppered gantlet to the street, and the OTB parlor in the basement? I mean, WTF?! Oh. That's right. It's Bouchercon. Two more classy posts from the original wonder twins. Although they missed each other, they were both superb roommates.
10/22/09
A View From the Ghetto: B'Con
More B'con recaps. Take a long, slow look at the picture there. Dark, sticky carpet with the geometric pattern to hide the dirt. Suicide railings about three inches below code. During last week's conference I called the Embassy Suites "the ghetto" but then again Swierczynski and Chercover and Olson stayed there so maybe I'm too quick to judge. Come on, Kieran, it was not that bad. OK, the breakfast buffet was passable, but I'm a former chef and wary of anything "touched" by knuckle-dragging third shifters who can't cut the prime time on the line. And yeah, they gave me a cheese plate when my room wasn't ready (lots and lots of cheddar for some reason) but could someone please explain the habit-trail entrance maze, dreary, cigarette-peppered gantlet to the street, and the OTB parlor in the basement? I mean, WTF?! Oh. That's right. It's Bouchercon. Two more classy posts from the original wonder twins. Although they missed each other, they were both superb roommates.