From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes of the November 5th meeting are online
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:53:05 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:00 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes of the November 5th meeting are online

> "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> > Keith wrote:
> >> Elspeth wrote:
> >>> The overall impression that I've gotten is that people feel that
> >>> there is already a 'big tent' convention in the area
>
> >> What convention is that?
>
> > Balticon.
>
> > My own feeling is that the Balt-Wash does not need 2 Balticons.
>
> Balticon is not in the DC area, any more than Philcon, Lunacon,
> or Boskone are.  There is no such place as Balt-Wash.

Depends on your point of view.  Significantly, when Baltimore designed its
subway it did so with an eye to making it fully compatible with DC's Metro,
and the lines will eventually link -- either in Columbia, or, equally
likely, at BWI.

I've dated women in Baltimore while living in Falls Church.   I go as often
as weekly to Baltimore's Orion Sound for concerts (twice this week --
Tuesday for Happy the Man's new CD release party, and tomorrow for Red
Masque and Brave).

Both areas have distinct identities, but they've been closely linked ever
since the Baltimore-Washington Parkway Expressway Redundancy opened in the
mid-'50s (and all the more so since I-95).

--Ted White