From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Balticon in 2006 - Hunt Valley Inn
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:10:51 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: <MarkLFischer at aol.com>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 9:05 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Balticon in 2006 - Hunt Valley Inn

> 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?

Good one!

--Ted White