From: MarkLFischer at aol.com
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:25:48 EST
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ship-Con and Camp-Con (was: Re: [WSFA] Re: Balticon in 2006 - ...
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

In a message dated 3/14/2005 11:51:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
omni at omniphile.com writes:

>It would be a different kind of event, and wouldn't appeal to all fans,  but
>it might be fun and wouldn't cost much to run compared to renting a  hotel
>and setting up movie and other A/V equipment

I think it would be a hoot, myself, and if you combine Fannish industry  with
the ingenuity shown by some campers who refuse to abandon the comforts of
society (the aforementioned Pennsic-goers come to mind), there might be less
daylight between a camp-con and a hotel-con than you think.

What about a Drive-InCon, assuming the appropriate establishment can be
located and renovated for the purpose?  The program space and AV  considerations
would be built-in.  It would combine the worst features of  both a convention
and the drive to get there, but for some of us, that's not a  big problem.  In
my case, the inside of a car is the only  experience of a Worldcon I have ever
had (I've made it out the door and beyond  the corporate limits of my home
community several times, and in 1978, even got  about 2/3 of the way to
Iguanacon, a milestone for me).

>>Damn, is it obvious?  I thought I had those pants   repaired....

>Got to take them to a tailor with at least a partial  name, not just the job
>description, if you want the best  work...

Tailor-To-Prey usually does a pretty sharp job, even if his usual  line IS
taxidermy.  Chraal-Haberdasher is on the same block, but he got his  start in
the Puppeteer trade and you're lucky if you can get an even number of  legs on
his suit pants -- and you can't complain about it, either, unless you're
wearing MI powered armor.

Mark