On Feb 28, 1:12 am, Jan  wrote:
> In article ,
> jmsa...{at}aol.com says...
>
> >I actually remember that day.  I'd flown into London the day before
> >going to Blackpool, was jet lagged and didn't get any sleep...came to
> >Blackpool, figured I'd get some sleep that night only to discover a
> >fax from Doug with the article in Variety saying that Claudia was
> >leaving the show, which was the first we'd heard of it.  So there was
> >no sleep THAT night either...also was on the phone through the day and
> >evening and found there was little to no room service.
>
> >So the next day, with 3 days of no sleep and 24 hours with no food, I
> >had to skip breakfast to keep dealing with the Claudia situation, then
> >when I went to get lunch there was a situation in the dealer's room
> >with some counterfeit merchandise, and I had one shot for food, my
> >first in almost two days...just half an hour between panels.
>
> >I first went into the restaurant and told the waitresst that I had
> >just half an hour and needed food desperately, I was shaking and faint
> >from lack of food.  She said she could rustle up a hamburger fast.  I
> >said fine, that and a salad.  20 minutes goes by.  No food.  She
> >forgot to put the order in.  I tell her to cancel the hamburger, just
> >bring me a bowl of soup, anything to keep from falling over.  Ten more
> >minutes go by and now, just as I have to leave, she finally comes over
> >with a  half-cooked hamburger that was still cold inside, having
> >decided that I should have that instead of the soup without even
> >checking back.  Meaning that I got nothing.  I was furious, said some
> >unhappy things, shoved it back and walked out...going over to the line
> >to get some fish and chips to eat as I walked to the panel.
>
> >So yeah, I'm not at all surprised I looked rather unhappy at that
> >moment.
>
> And here, with no prompting, is the other side of a story that a non-fan has
> been repeating for years of how JMS 'threw' a hamburger and 'abused' a waitress
> at a con.  Sounds like the waitress probably got harsher language than would
> ordinarily have been the case but now there's context.

I thought the very same thing -- "context is everything" -- before
even reading your reply, Jan. I'm reminded of a discussion between
Adama and Tigh in the new Battlestar Galactica, where Adama points out
the need to consider context when hearing reports of events. For
example, it was literally true that they declared martial law and that
some civilians got shot by soldiers, but there is context that makes
the series of events different from that on a pirate ship like what
the Pegasus had become.

Matthew
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