EFF event details and my picture with Cory

Follow up to this post: http://www.111minnagallery.com/2009/03/eff/

I had a great evening at the EFF fundraiser. BART made it easy to get there on time, and both the EFF staffers and I were glad about my donation to their cause. Minna gallery filled up slowly, but by the time Charlie Jane Anders started reading, seats were long gone and many were on their feet.


It may have been Senior Staff Attourney Fred Von Lohman who introduced the authors. (That's right! The Fred Von Lohman).


Going first, Charlie Jane Anders read an interesting story of a girl researching her biological father on the internet, and left it with a cliffhanger (i.e. - plz buy the book), but I spent too much time being disturbed by the broad shoulders, large adams apple, and deep voice this lady had. I guess I should be more open. This is SF after all.

Analee Newitz was less complicated and read a more playful story, and I considered picking up a book. My reading list is long, though, and I have yet to do so.


The third reader, Rudy Rucker, started by taking a pic of the audience, then starting an audio recording to blog later. You get bonus points if you can find me in the audience.


Rudy went on to tell a story that made me keep checking my watch. It was a monotonous delivery of an oddball fantasy of a postal worker in a weird living dreamscape. He got some laughs out of the audience, but it was lost on me.


Finally Cory Doctorow read from Little Brother, and made some noise. He selected a passage depicting civil unrest, and was animated & engaging in his delivery.


Afterwards, I took a pic with Cory.


I was interested by the different texts the authors used to read from: Charlie had a bunch of wrinkled printed 8.5x11 sheets. Analee used an ultra-thin notebook (macbook air). Rudy used a bound prinout. Cory brought a published hardcover.

It was a fun night, but after an early day at work in Hayward, a jobsite walk in Santa Cruz, a night in San Francisco and a long BART ride home, I was pretty beat. It was worth it to get Little Brother signed by Cory, though.