I had a blast at the Northern Voice conference last weekend, meeting other fabulous bloggers, many of whom I am still in the process of adding to my blogroll. I went to the conference because Katr was going and I was curious about what happens at a blogging conference. I mean, it's blogging. How much do we need to talk about it? Isn't that what our blogs are for? And so on. The most hilarious thing was how people were on their laptops blogging about the sessions about blogging the whole day. It was all very meta.
I was not among the live blogging crowd, obviously, because there weren't any sessions about how to incorporate more witty sophisticated bathroom humour into your writing or how many hot pictures of Dawn French you can post on your lesbian blog before she'll send you a cease and desist (turns out it's twelve, if you're interested)(Also, I'm available to speak on these topics next year, Northern Voice organizers.)
But I did start the following list during the awesome From Book to Blog or Blog to Book blogging author panel. Because one of the people on the panel was author, blogger and Agnes of God, Meg Tilly.
Ha ha! I know! Meg Tilly!
Ways In Which Meg Tilly and I Are Similar:
- We are both part Asian
- My dad is a big fan of both of our work
- We are both bloggers
- We are both rocking the salt and pepper look
- We both live in B.C. and have dogs
- You can find both of us on Wikipedia:
- Me (okay, it's not about me - but I get a mention in the third sentence! Jealous?)
- We have both played nuns - she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar; I received Honourable Mention from the Alberta Public School Board High School Drama Festival.
- We are both lithe dancer-types with an ethereal, childlike beauty (oh, wait . . . yeah, that's just Meg Tilly).
I was too shy to go and try to have my picture taken with Meg Tilly once the panel was over; she seemed very sweet and approachable, but I am too big a dork and was afraid I might blurt out "Hi! One of the sisters fed me glass!!", which is Padu and my favourite line from Agnes of God. I might also have made a joke about how I exclusively use pigeon shit to navigate on road trips since I saw Leaving Normal (also one of my favourite films), but "stalker" is rarely the vibe you want to give off in these situations and I figured it would be best just to leave it.
Fate intervened, however, and not long after the session, Katr and I found ourselves sitting a few feet away from where Meg Tilly had just joined the lunch line. We struck up a conversation with her revolving around lunch and then Katr, fed up with my recalcitrance, nudged me into action. And so it came to pass that I bestowed the one Creampuff Revolution blog card I gave out the whole weekend upon Meg Tilly. She giggled at my tag line (Fat. Naked. Dangerous.) and we chatted about blogging, as you do.
She was enchanting. And just as she was probably starting to wonder why I was still talking to her, word arrived that they were out of food and she was whisked away by another author from the panel. Which is good, because I was seconds away from telling her about how I first saw Agnes of God on video at my friend Lori's birthday party when I was 12 because Lori's mom thought it would be like Nunsense and guess what? IT WASN'T.
So here I am in Monterey again this year, acting as Katr's arm candy for the TED conference. Last year, we checked in next to Forest Whitaker and I saw Cameron Diaz in the lobby but this year, I'm not casting my keen, celebrity seeking eye about with as much vim. 'Cause, you know - I met Meg Tilly! And I look forward to enjoying her lovely cozy blog and trying out her muffin recipes. Mmm...delicious muffins...
