Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:21:03 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at panix.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave in search of...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 07:20 PM 10/18/2006, Ted White wrote:
>dicconf wrote:
>
> >  On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Candy Madigan wrote:
> >
> > >> --- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> ... a sheet of metal for a set of magnetic poetry to be used in
> > >>> the Town Square.
>  >>>
> > >> You might wish to check a dollar store for metal serving trays.
> > >>
> > > Naah, he's looking for something refrigerator door sized.
> >
> >  *Sigh* two or three metal serving trays, one above the other?  Or
> >  under the other, depending on how you look at it.
>
>Why not a *refrigerator door*?  They are easy to detach, and one might
>find one at curbside, waiting to be picked up.

Um, because I like you too much to actually use it on you but would be
tempted to try?

Seriously -

I'd gotten this notion fixed my head that turning Capclave members loose
with words on magnets could be vastly amusing.  (Probably more so if we
shifted it to the Saturday night reception for the duration.  Quote after
me: Authors and editors and alcohol, oh my.)  I did manage to finagle the
Genius, Book Lovers, and Cat Lovers sets out of the person who was
displaying them at NEBA.  What I didn't have is something that can be used
to stick them to.

It didn't occur to me that tracking down something large enough that people
can have fun with it that was also something we could get into and use in
hotel function space might be a just a tad bit difficult.  Hotels tend to
get cranky about things that they think might mess up their walls.  That
rules out raw metal, or metal trays attached to raw wood, raw wood attached
to raw metal, stuff like that.

And I think that they might notice us bringing in a refrigerator door.  Or
that there's one propped up against one of their walls.

But it's certainly restored my sense of humor!

Elspeth