From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:33:03 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

The best way to avoid lines for the masquerade, Hugos, etc., is to have an
SO on the tech crew. You can slip in and sit with them. The down side is
they are busy doing techie things for the whole con.

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>> The plaza between the Hyatt and convention center complex was quickly
>> named The Anvil of God.
>
>Crossing it was bad enough, but I was amazed to see long lines of people
>standing out there for *hours* before the Hugo awards ceremony.   (I went =
in a
>side door I'd discovered days earlier.  Bob Silverberg immediately =
grabbed me
>and whisked me to a seat in the rows reserved for nominees.)  I think it =
was at
>Midamericon that we started seeing Long Lines (and *tickets*) for major =
events
>like that.

ConFranciso had lines.  Boy howdy, did they have lines.  Not the best way =
for a Worldcon to initially present itself to the membership: lines.  =
Caused many people to start refering to the con as ConFiasco.  Aren't fans =
clever?

mjw

>--Ted White
>