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All day I’d been looking forward to a seminar with Jakob Stegelmann (one of the great genre and game ‘enthusiasts’ of Denmark) and Malene Flagga (quantum physicist and science journalist). They were going to venture into the future, both of science fiction and reality (as the title for the seminar so concisely expressed it).

I’d brought my notebook and a pen (because it was that kind of notebook) with me in hopes of getting inspiration both for my thesis and this blog. But, alas, throngs of nerds, geeks and other kinds of sci-fi hooligans had decided to spend their monday night in The Black Diamond which meant not only chaotic shambling verging on a state of civil war, but also that yours truely was not appointed a seat in the great halls of The Black Diamond.

So here I am now with a familiar bitter taste in my mouth, a mouth that wants to speew profanities at Students Only! for being an elitist extension of the military-industrial complex by only allowing people who are students to their seminars and for accepting sponsored beer.  And not least for ensuring that corporate censorship will saturate the once pristine waters of academia. I want to tell them that I never ever ever ever will try to attend one of their events ever again… ever. And then we’ll see who drops the last tear!

But truth is that I’m a student, I like free beer and without sponsorship, it would probably be impossible for them to do what they do (as far as I know anyway). I just feel miserable because I didn’t get in, they tried all they could to get as many in as possible and even though it was chaos, they kept cool.

So because I did not get to see this seminar and because I feel like I owe you, here is something much better, the Amazing Dancing Baby Skeletons of Bologna!

In: Me, science fiction | tags: Me, sci-fi, science fiction, scifi. | #