Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:38:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Ted White wrote:

> Most Americans of the mundane sort are uncomfortable in non-American
> cultures.   (This is why American hotel chains make their foreign hotels
> indistinguishable from their American hotels.  It allows tourists and
> business people to find a reassuringly "American" home base on their
> travels.)    There was a time when most fans Weren't Like That, but I think
> that time has pretty well passed now, at least when we speak of the 8,000+
> who attend US Worldcons.

Jackson has the gout.

-- Dick Eney