Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 08:44:24 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> tedwhite at compusnet.com 03/31/02 11:51PM
>
>Steve Smith wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> To bring a SF note to the discussion, at Iguanacon II in 1978 in
>> Phoenix, Harlan Ellison was the GoH.  When he found out that Arizona
>> hadn't ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, he talked about doing all
>> sorts of nasty things to let people in AZ know what assholes they were
>> (he used stronger language, of course).  One of them was to have as =
many
>> people as possible avoid staying in the hotel and camp in the desert.
>> Now, desert camping is no more dangerous than any other form of camping
>> -- if you know what you're doing.  Fortunately, the locals talked him
>> out of it -- not only does it get cold at night, Labor Day is right
>> about at the beginning of thunderstorm season ...
>
>Harlan supposedly boycotted the hotel by living in a RV out front.  But =
in
>actual fact he slept in a hotel room most nights.  It may get cold at =
night
>in the desert -- particularly at higher altitudes -- but in Phoenix it =
went
>*down* to 95 at night...after daytime highs in the 110-115 area.
>
>--Ted White

There was an RV parked out front of one of the hotels, the Hyatt I =
believe.  But, yeah, as far as I know it was Harlan-less.  I believe that =
Patrick Nielsen Hayden denies having to go out and feed the meter.

As for the temps, well, yeah it was great.  Hot & dry.  As long as I =
stayed out of direct sunlight the non-freckled skin wouldn't burst into =
flame.

The plaza between the Hyatt and convention center complex was quickly =
named The Anvil of God.

And then there was . . . .

mjw