More on Bcon

I can't believe it's a week since I left for Bouchercon. The weekend flew by, and once I got back, life settled in again and I'm back in my routine. Alison said it's like going to summer camp and then suddenly having to be back at school. She's so right. (and yes, she does snore)  

Other Bcon observations:

• The Weber Grill was everywhere. Really. Every corner you'd turn, there was the Weber Grill. And yet it still  managed to stay in one place. It was like a magic trick.
• Kudos to the organizers for the Gameworks evening. Free arcade games in the mall. Clair and I played a lot of air hockey, raced cars, and even shot big game (I kept shooting the bear cubs by accident, a huge no-no, but I'm no Sarah Palin).
• I had no idea Indiana still allowed smoking in bars. I thought every state had banned that.
• Despite my whining about the time of my panel, we had quite the crowd to listen to our stories about our book "hooks." Seems not everyone wanted to hear Michael Connelly, Sue Grafton and Sara Paretsky talk about Poe.
• I had to sign next to Sara Paretsky, whose line stretched far past the couple of people in mine. She's lovely and elegant and I fear I was a gushy fangirl. And I wanted to swipe one of the Tshirts she was giving away.
• Judy Bobalik tells the long handled saucepan story so well that I thought Martyn Waites would spit out his food he was laughing so hard.
• In my signing line, a woman showed me her tattoos but she didn't have me sign a book.

Today's question is one I had to compose and then answer on my Bcon panel. Our moderator asked us to think of a question no one had ever asked us that we wanted to be asked.

Which reality show would you want to be on?

Karen

Comments

[Wilfred Bereswill]

I actually thought about eating at that Weber Grill, but kept winding up in one of the three Brew Pubs between the Hyatt and the Omni.

Used to be I wanted to be on both Survivor and The Amazing Race. I even filled out an application for Survivor. I never sent it in, but I filled it out. If I had to choose one:

The Amazing Race.

[AlisonGaylin]

My cousin actually came very close to being on Survivor (!) I'm thinking Amazing Race too for the travel, but I'd be so tempted to blow off the challenges and just go exploring and eating and drinking.

[Patti Abbott]

We ate at the Weber Grill twice.
In Michigan you can smoke in restaurants (unless they forbide it) and bars. It's horrible.

[Karen Olson]

I'm totally into the Amazing Race but since I can't fly without Xanax and I absolutely won't bungee jump or do the food challenges, I'd probably be the first team off.

Patti, how did we not meet??

[Clair Lamb]

Karen, I got a t-shirt from Sara Paretsky — her last one, in fact. Perhaps we can negotiate a deal; I have seen how dangerous you can be with a fake gun.

[Jeff Shelby]

Amazing Race. I think Alison and I should apply to be a team and then get eliminated on the first leg.

[N]

While I love THE AMAZING RACE, I know damned well I wouldn't be able to pull it off. Too much flying, eating weird shit, and getting up at weird hours of the morning.

So I'll take SHARK TANK, as I wish I had a business idea of invention I could go and cash in on. Love that show.

[Kieran]

Sounds creepy, but I think hanging out with the JACKASS crew would be a awesome.

[AlisonGaylin]

It's a deal Jeff -- we just have to make sure the first leg is to a country where they serve excellent food and alcohol.

[Lori Armstrong]

What is this TV of which you all speak?

So I'm going to cheat and say I'd like to be on a game show on CMT called the Singing Bee - country karoyke people. Now don't that sound like fun?

You all had so much fun at Bouchercon. Sigh.