By far the most pleasant part of the trip was ditching WorldCon entirely and going out for crabs at some crab place we had to get to by taxi. That was fun.
WorldCon was miserable. It's the only WorldCon I've ever been to, so I also don't have a good sense for whether the problems were typical for an event that size, or if it was just a bad year all around. (The hotel with the parties was catastrophically overloaded; the good parties were all private; the programming was invariably too crowded for me to get into the room; etc.)
The con stuff was down near the harbor, and there seemed to be this narrow corridor of gentrification surrounded by a sea of intense poverty.
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Date: 2009-03-28 06:58 pm (UTC)WorldCon was miserable. It's the only WorldCon I've ever been to, so I also don't have a good sense for whether the problems were typical for an event that size, or if it was just a bad year all around. (The hotel with the parties was catastrophically overloaded; the good parties were all private; the programming was invariably too crowded for me to get into the room; etc.)
The con stuff was down near the harbor, and there seemed to be this narrow corridor of gentrification surrounded by a sea of intense poverty.