ext_234665 ([identity profile] firstfrost.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] firstfrost 2012-03-01 09:54 pm (UTC)

The JoCo part included a nightly concert (or talk or story read or whatever), and also some morning get-togethers like a Q-and-A which was to a large part being entertained by the group of entertainers joking and teasing each other and generally playing off each other very amusingly. But in addition to that, the famous people mostly tried to be accessible and friendly, so they'd hang out by the pool in the afternoon or play games or chat or incite people to make shapes in the ocean. Mike played poker with Wil Wheaton. Then there was the game room, which tons of people brought games to, and was the official meeting place. One group ran a puzzle hunt across the week (Marleigh did that; we helped). There were D&D sessions in the Crow's Nest and a Dominion tournament and lots and lots of pickup games and an iPhone Handbell Choir and two dance parties in the nightclub with John Flansbergh (They Might Be Giants) as the DJ and JoCo karaoke and non-JoCo karaoke and an open mike night and a Drink and Draw with several webcartoonists. (One flaw is that the group was big enough that we just didn't all fit in the smaller lounge used for things like kareoke night; that was unfortunate.) One evening we all descended on one of the cruise ship musicians and listened to him play (at the suggestion of one of the JoCo musicians), which kind of floored him - the usual passenger is retired and not likely to sing along to Moxy Fruvous. There was a Moustache Formal with Mandatory Moustaches and Optional Fezzes with a number of very impressive fezzes and some very impressive moustaches (one was clockwork. Many were tentacular. Some hung from glasses). One fez looked like a Dalek and another like a Tardis. The fezzes really confused the muggles - we were clearly some sort of Shriner Hippie group.

Post a comment in response:

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting