Comments on: Do Not Listen to Gwenda Bond

By: Benjamin Rosenbaum

Benjamin Rosenbaum — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:06:21 +0000

The panel has been lit on fire, blown up, qrushed into bitty pieces, and then blown up again into smithereens!

But it lives on!

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 03:59:36 +0000

That's a great idea, Jed. Let's do it! you can put in suggestions for panels for wiscon 30 here. Do it!

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:49:03 +0000

And there was me thinking that “The Panel is Dead!” was some new pop group Gwenda had discovered.

Still, Jed is right, we should discuss these things. I recommend we found a new literary movement within SF that will write fiction based on the assumptions that the panel is indeed dead. Then there will be a massive reaction against it and panels will suddenly become much better.

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:56:52 +0000

I think we should put together a panel at next year’s WisCon about whether the panel is dead or not.

Or at least a panel about how to have an effective panel.

By: gwenda

gwenda — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:52:55 +0000

Sleep would be nice, wouldn’t it? Safe trip, dear.

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 10:43:00 +0000

And the other half is having other people vehemently insist that whatever it is absolutely is NOT dead!

5:45AM in Madison about to get a plane back to NYC. Very, very, very tired.

By: Shelly Rae

Shelly Rae — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 05:59:35 +0000

Except I’m pretty sure that jelly shoes are dead. But Elvis is not. Nor feminism (right on sister!). Haven’t panels simply mutated into blogs, & lists, & forums (oh my!)?
Anon,

By: gwenda

gwenda — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 03:15:59 +0000

It’s dead, dead, deadity dead dead!* (Unless it has Maureen McHugh or Karen Joy Fowler on it… and a few other people I’m too tired to list.) I just think the panel needs a rest for a bit, so that it can evolve into a more revolutionary, less frustrating form.

Possible involving the evolution of the SuperModerator, who renders all panels great.

*You realize the whole fun of saying something is dead is that the thing being pronounced dead never really is, right? See: the novel, the short story, books, god (er), jelly shoes. Etc.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:02:13 +0000

As someone who only attended 1/2 panel and a reading due to various circumstances — up 1/2 panel from last year by the way — I think she may just mean that cons are great even without the panels. Just a guess.