"never again is what you swore / the time before / now you're standing there / tongue-tied"

Lessons of Phoenix ComiCon:

1. Doing origami with shiny foil paper attracts more attention from passersby than folding non-foil papers, no matter how prettily patterned. Especially large squares of foil.
   
   
2. If Peter S. Beagle walks by your table and you just happen to have a silver origami unicorn, you GIVE IT TO HIM.
   
   
3. If the only thing you are programmed for is a panel on SFF poetry, you get to tell comic book pros that you're there as a professional poet.
   
   
4. Order business cards early enough for them to arrive BEFORE the event. (Thus the subject line.)
   
   
5. Cute!nijna shirts are cute.
   
   
6. Even if not done in shiny foil, a complete set of 2" Chinese zodiac animals also attracts attention.
   
   

(The little thing behind the boar is not droppings, but a tiny flower folded by a girl who wanted to show off how small she could fold things. I was impressed.)

P.S. stillnotbored's first line contest for the month is on.

---L.