Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:27:51 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The Small Press Expo, Bethesda, MD, October 12-13
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 04/18/07 11:00 PM >>>
>Will Frank <wmfrank at stwing.org> wrote:
>> http://www.spxpo.com/index.shtml
>> This time, "Small Press" mostly means small and independent
>comics,
>> but...interesting timing, no?
>
>The first Capclave was opposite a major local Anime con.  Next
>year's
>Capclave, if it keeps the same weekend, will be opposite Gaylaxicon,
>which will be in DC.

Capclave 2008 will be Oct 17-19 according to the 2008 El Jefe.  And
according to http://www.gaylaxicon2008.org/ Gaylaxicon 2008 is Oct
10-13.  Interestingly, their Art GoH is Alicia Austin, a past Disclave
GoH and artist for the Lew Shiner collection WSFA published that year.
Really, really nice art.  Here'san OK scan of the front (it's a wrap
around jacket):
<http://www.clarkesworldbooks.com/book_%5BSL000239%5D.html>

>There just aren't enough weekends to go around.

Noreascon II solved that: "Created the month of Claudius between August
and September for financial accounting"
<http://www.noreascon.org/n123/innovations.html>

>It's also likely that no matter what weekend Capclave chooses, it
>will be opposite major Metro maintenance work that results in
>"minor"
>delays, i.e. delays measured in hours, not days.  If we're really
>unlucky, it could even be faster to forget the Red Line and walk the
>ten miles from Rosslyn to Twinbrook.

Solution: very large trebuchet and a parachute <g> ...

mjw