Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:41:50 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ship-Con and Camp-Con (was: Re: [WSFA] Re: Balticon in 2006 - ...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 12:25 AM 3/15/05 EST, MarkLFischer at aol.com wrote:
>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.

Gee, I was joking, but this looks like it might work! ;-)

>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.

Are there any drive-ins left?  I thought they were all converted to
townhouse developments years ago?  Apparently people preferred sitting in
cramped seats and walking on Crudolium (tm) flooring and having their seat
kicked by the chatting moron in the next row while they looked at
ever-shrinking screens to sitting in their car to watch a movie with a cute
date.  Even after they fixed the sound problem by broadcasting over FM
rather than using the garbage speaker things that you had to hang on your
window.  Today's kids will never know the joy of watching a monster
creeping through a foggy swamp, with *real* fog...

It was also fun living behind a drive-in.  A friend had that setup in the
70s, and we'd watch the silent movies from his back yard and make up our
own dialog.  Very entertaining.  We could even sneak through the hole in
the fence and go get popcorn if we wanted to.  ;-)

>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).

Agoraphobia?

>>>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.

Ok, you win!  ;-)

-- Mike B.

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