From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] 2020 Worldcon
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 16:15:34 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

I'm not at the Worldcon this year, but I've been reading its
newsletters.  I see that for 2020 Peggy Rae's house got 3 votes,
and "El Fabulosa Bungalow" and John Sapienza's yard got 1 vote
each.  However, Wellington once again won, just like in 1815.
The con will be called CoNZealand.

This year's Worldcon is not very video friendly.  On YouTube there's
much more video available of a pair of opposing demonstrations just
outside the Worldcon protesting and counter-protesting the banishment
of an author for threatening to take video at the con than there are
videos of the con itself.  Somehow the demonstrations turned into
mostly being for and against the current US president, and the one
that's for him is also protesting against pedophilia, which they claim
is somehow associated with the current Worldcon.

The Worldcon is promising to livestream the Hugo award ceremony
starting at 10:30 tonight (EDT).  I plan to watch.