Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:56:58 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: PhilCon et al?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> dalek_cag at yahoo.com 11/16/04 10:44:27 AM >>>
>I've never been to a Philcon either.  Not really a
>matter of disliking the con, more a question of i'm
>lazy and cheap and to date the GOHs haven't interested
>me enough to haul my ass to Philly for the weekend or
>for an incredibly long day trip.  I did enjoy MilPhil,
>so no objections to going back to Philly for a con at
>some point.

Philcon, having moved to December, is less & less of a three ring
circus.  Ok, they program for such, but the warm bodies just ain't
there.

>
>I've had my ups and downs with Balticon, less because
>of the con itself and more because the Wyndham is run
>by the devil's minions.

I suspect the devil's minions are better organized.  2005 is the last
year at Wyndham.  2006 is off to Marriott's Hunt Valley.

Oh, the Balticon site (www.balticon.org) has yet to be updated.

>
>I like both large and small cons.  I went to I-Con
>several times as a day trip on the LIRR.  They are an
>all things to all people con, so there's something for
>everyone, assuming you can figure out how to navigate
>the SUNY-Stony Brook campus.  A couple pro writers I
>have a passing acquaintence with have said it's not a
>con that has a good reputation with the pros, largely
>because it's run by the SUNY SF club which means the
>club has a high degree of turnover and reinvents the
>wheel every year.
>
>As it stands now, I don't think Capclave's in any
>danger of being turned into a three ring circus.

Ringlets?

>however, I don't see anything wrong with making more
>of an effort to attract gamers and filkers. It's a low
>cost way to try to get more members.

The joke about gamers is that you take their membership money, show
them the gaming room and forget about them over the weekend.

mjw