The coolness of Elayna.

[shadesong]

In addition to mortifying Neil Gaiman, Elayna has also...

been hugged and sung to by Tori Amos. She was 18 months old and dressed as a faerie. And the song was "Happy Phantom", which Elayna usually provided woohoos on, but she was feeling shy...

been photographed by Hal Clement at two separate Tropicons.

played "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Dynamite, Gummyhead" with Harlan Ellison and Peter David.

also played the "animal game" with Peter David and Paul Jenkins

been called adorable by Clive Barker, but that was just from a photo, she didn't meet him. He signed "The Thief of Always" for her.

and has Poe's autograph, but likewise didn't meet her.

...and I'm sure there are people I'm forgetting...

Comments

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

Your little girl has more geek cred than I and all my close friends combined. o.O Damn.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

She has no idea how cool she is. She thinks her life is totally normal. She wrote a journal entry for school about having gone to DragonCon, seeing some cool costumes, and buying art from Peter David's daughter. Same tone as the journal entries about playing with the cat. This is her life.

[snowelf.livejournal.com]

Wow. Elayna is one lucky young girl.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

HARLAN actually liked her?

Wow.

I have so got to meet this kid.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yah. She was originally just playing with us. Then Peter David noticed that she was playing with alternative rules and started questioning her. Which sucked Harlan in.

Elayna: Dynamite beats rock, paper, *and* scissors.
Peter: Well, something has to beat dynamite!
Elayna: Well, yeah. Gummyhead.
Peter: Gummyhead?
Elayna, making her hand into a claw: Gummyhead. It smooshes dynamite.
Harlan: Well, if gummyhead beats everything, why don't you just always use gummyhead?
Elayna: Scissors beat gummyhead. They cut it up.

And then they had to start their panel.

[tww1fa]

Hal Clement? As in Mission of Gravity Hal Clement? <swoon>
When I was a kid I had a pet millipede named Barlennan...

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yep, that Hal Clement. He's a regular at TropiCon...

[terminalwriter.livejournal.com]

My oldest, before a year old, saw Les Miserables, a Duke basketball game in Cameron Indoor Stadium, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Oklahoma...