Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:20:33 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Philcon 2005 (was Re: Balticon 2006)

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 6/12/2005 4:43:17 PM >>>
>"Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, maybe it's just me, but it seems silly not to have a
Philcon
>> 2005 site, even if just says something like: :"here will be a
>> Philcon this year.  Trust us." or somesuch.
>
>It's not just you.  For them *not* to have a 2005 site positively
>screams "this con is pining for the fjords".
>
>There is, after all, not only a Capclave 2005 site, but also a
>Balticon 2006 site, a Capclave 2006 site, and a Capclave 2007 site.
>
>There's also a DC in 2011 site, but there isn't anything there yet.

http://www.dcin2011.org/ .  The problem is that there is no "convention
center" hotel, just a number of smallish hotels near the convention
center.

Next year BookExpo is in DC (19-21 May) and I have their housing
list/map if anyone is interested in seeing it.

>But I don't plan to worry about that lack for another year or so.

Wise move <g>.

mjw