And another NTIF fades into the sunset...

[lillian13]

Well, it was crowded and noisy and they really screwed the pooch on the layout, since the city of Dallas is redoing the Automotive Building. We asked for a corner booth away from the stage and got put on a wall about 50 feet from the stage (nothing between us and the music).

Ah...the music. It's safe to say we were not near the A-List stage. Or even the B-List. The later it got, the more feedback we got to hear from the speakers. (Either they were giving the sound man too much Guinness or not enough!) I am hoarse from yelling to be heard above said mediocre* music.

They added 57 more vendors this year, most of whom are either companies trying to get your information so they can sell it (sign up for a chance to win a vacation/golf clubs/whatever), or were jewelers. I kid you not, one of the other buildings--the one with the Irish Dancers in it, yay!--was like 70% jewlery vendors. Sheesh. Then they didn't let anyone start loading out until almost 9pm. On Sunday. Thankfully I was able to leave early, since I had a 3 hour drive back to Austin.

However...I saw many, many lovely dogs. Everything from teeny Papillons to enormous Wolfhounds, Grand Pyrenees, and Great Danes. The dogs were generally better-behaved than the people, frankly. I saw a grown man glomp another, which made me boggle. I got to work with alycorn , who is always fun, and saw vickita a couple of times.

....and it's over 'til next year.

Going to see Watchmen tonight with the World's Best Niece. Screw doing laundry!

* I did buy CDs from The Next Chapter as well as Loescher & Kenneth (which is actually a flash drive!). They were worth it. The others....not so much, sorry.

Comments

[vickita.livejournal.com]

Yeah, dude, there were only three acts on that stage next to you that I would have gone too see, all weekend. L+K, for obvious reasons; Tullamore was there on Friday night, and I like them a lot, just as human beings, and Mary, the woman who plays the dulcimer has a beautiful voice, and then Poor Man's Fortune was out there at some point, and Wolf and The Piper were playing with them every chance they had all weekend.

God, I REALLY hope they revert to the old layout next year.

How was the movie?

[lillian13.livejournal.com]

Well, they're saying that the city might work on another building after this year's State Fair. yay.

Watchmen is very very violent, but I thought they did a good job of compressing the series into 2.5 hours of movie.