From: MarkLFischer at aol.com
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:05:27 EST
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Balticon in 2006 - Hunt Valley Inn
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

In a message dated 3/14/2005 4:23:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
omni at omniphile.com writes:

>Seriously!  Put the hotel on a cruise ship and dock it in cities  as needed.
>That would let you hold cons on both the west coast and east  coast, as
>well as much of the great lakes region over time.  You  could also do
>seagoing cons that go to places like Bermuda for a  week...maybe even meet
>AE449!  ;-)

I'm going to refrain from citing Coast Guard issues, since that would lend
an air of legitimacy to this whole thread :-)

I'll just note that, knowing fen as I do, there would be a mass  gafiation
ten seconds after the invoice arrived for the first periodic  drydocking and
bottom maintenance.  Nothing has succeeded in destroying  fandom to date, this
might just manage it.

Perhaps groups and better-heeled individual fen could invest in old RVs of
whatever age and opulence they can afford, and a couple of old circus  tents.
My background in Fandom on a Shoestring is tickled by the image of  an
itinerant Okie convention swarming around the country like Vulcan-saluting  locusts,
periodically settling on some luckless community to strip their stores  bare
of snack foods, and leave SF-shaped holes in their second-hand  bookstores.
Permanent Floating RiotCon, anyone?