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"And now on to round two!"

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Video of the Readercon comedy show, It Was a Dark and Stormy Mic, is online! In three parts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jRs02hYl8c

At 24:28 I recite Train lyrics in the style of shitty open mic poetry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhzLJqL9kdY

At 7:13 I sing "Can't Take That Away from Me" with all pronouns replaced with the word "Greg".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6XULGkg4YE

At 1:48 I sing NIN's "Closer" to the tune of "Save the Best for Last", and at 10:44 you get to hear me do my best Roxette impression (with the sound cutting out halfway through to see whether I can stay on beat).

No one is obligated to watch the entire 90 minutes, but there's some pretty good stuff in there. (Hat-tip to X for ghostwriting some of my "IP Shrinkage" titles, including Partial Recall.) I think my favorite line of mine was defining approximate as "a substitute spouse" and watching the wave of laughter as people thought about it and then got the joke. Cat singing "Do You Know the Muffin Man" but not being allowed to repeat any words made me laugh until I cried. Sarah brought the house down with Prince's "Darling Nikki" to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon". And every performance in the lyrics-as-poetry section is worth listening to, especially Marty reading the "Charles in Charge" theme song like it's gay porn and Heath performing the "Three's Company" theme in the voice of Riff-Raff from RHPS.

And now you all know I am a giant ham. :D I love performing and I especially love performing as part of a group. We were a great group and did very well by one another and I'm so grateful to Heath for inviting me to play.

The Readercon media page has lots more videos, photos, con reports, and panel livetweets and recaps. Since I missed, uh, basically everything due to con staff things and childcare, I'm delighted to be able to experience a bit of it in retrospect.

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