Chaz Boston Baden ([info]hazelchaz) wrote,
@ 2006-06-25 23:48:00
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...Lips like sugar, sugar kisses; lips like sugar, sugar kisses. Lips like sugar...
Part eleven. Some of the ribbons that I've had printed using the stock roman typeface from the ribbon makers, and haven't reordered in a fancy style.

  • BUCCONEER 2
  • DRAMA QUEEN
Bucconeer 2. Will Baltimore bid for another Worldcon anytime soon? Mil Phl followed Bucky, just up the road a piece to the north; and there's talk of a D.C. bid early next decade. I enjoyed Baltimore's 1998 Worldcon, and I'd like to go to Bucconeer 2. Of course, it won't be the same; I enjoyed the hell out of Con Francisco, and would have liked a Con Francisco 2 -- Con José was nice, but it wasn't Con Francisco all over again. Likewise, I missed ConAdian (Winnipeg, 1994), and would enjoyed ConAdian 2; I went to Torcon 3. Nothing wrong with Toronto, mind you. The conventions don't really repeat, even if they have the same name; I'd been hearing for years how well a Noreascon is run, and some of the things that slipped through the cracks at Noreascon 4 shocked me. (Example: the pocket program wouldn't fit in the pocket -- doesn't anyone read Filthy Pierre anymore? -- and the maps didn't line up. They were using several floors of the facility, but weren't consistent in where they put "North" on the pages. Made it a little tricky to use them for navigating from place to place upstairs and downstairs, and isn't that what they're for? I took mine and marked Boylston Street on each page, because it's an easy landmark -- all those windows looking over Trader Joe's. But I wrote this up 2 years ago, I don't need to go over it again...)

So you can't go back, you can only go forward to something else. If you heard about a great convention you missed: well, you missed it, they're not going to run it again for you even if they re-use the name. If you went to a great convention: cherish the memory of it. Remember the Brigadoon effect.

I haven't given out very many of these, so I stll have a few left; no need to reprint them, so no fancy art.

"Drama Queen" is something I saw on a t-shirt at Windycon; the young lady was wearing a red t-shirt with a "Dairy Queen" parody logo. I don't really think it works for a ribbon, though, which is why I still have a bunch.

On both of these -- anyone interested in them?

  • DEATH WILL NOT RELEASE YOU
  • LASFS MEMBER
"Death will not release you" is a LASFS slogan, of course. Occasionally I'll drop off a packet of these at the LASFS table; but I'm not actually in charge of promoting LASFS, and I'm usually doing something else that keeps me busy. So I haven't used them up, and probably won't be reordering them for myself.

  • FAN GALLERY HELPER
  • FAN GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHER
I mentioned in my previous post about the relationship of the Fan Gallery to my ribbons. I got the "Helper" ribbons to give people who help me with setting up the physical exhibit, and later the "Photographer" for the people like Mark L. Olson and Erik V. Olson who've contributed two or more photos that we use in the exhibit. When they run out, I'll reprint them in a fancy style. But since I don't go through very many each year, compared to how many I have on and, it won't be soon.

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[info]wouldyoueva
2006-06-26 04:28 pm UTC (link)
Bucconeer 2. Will Baltimore bid for another Worldcon anytime soon? Mil Phl followed Bucky, just up the road a piece to the north; and there's talk of a D.C. bid early next decade. I enjoyed Baltimore's 1998 Worldcon, and I'd like to go to Bucconeer 2.

There are some of us in BSFS that call Bucky "Discon III" since the running of that Worldcon was largely done by the Washington crew, many of whom did not bother to help us bid. (Unlike Connie, the 1983 Worldcon that was more of a 50-50 deal.)

BSFS probably will not bid for a Worldcon since both times the Worldcon has been in Charm City, we took a significant hit on Balticon, and we need the money from Balticon to pay the clubhouse bills.

I would say ConStellation 2 is a better bet than Bucconeer 2. But either is going to make BSFS shriek.

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[info]avt_tor
2006-06-27 03:56 pm UTC (link)
Constellation 3. :)

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[info]kevin_standlee
2006-06-26 07:13 pm UTC (link)
Con Francisco 2
Actually, if I'd had my way, it would have been "ConFrancisc02," with the last o replaced by a 02, and pronounced "con-fran-siss-coh-too". 2002 was the only year this possibly could have worked, and since in those days we were restricted to bidding only for 1999, 2002, 2005, etc., it seemed like fate to me. I might have lost that battle, though, and even had I won it, it would have been as much trouble to get people to follow it as it is for L.A.con IV to follow the preferred punctuation, capitalization and numbering style.

Of course, I would have loved to have had CF02 (our internal abbreviation for it), but the San Francisco Marriott had other ideas. About the only way I can see us doing a San Francisco Worldcon now is for someone in fandom with Way Too Much Money to buy that dratted hotel and fire all of the snooty people who priced us out of the place.

The building itself is still a great facility, and now that Moscone West has opened, the convention center would only be diagonally across the street from the hotel, instead of a longish walk around the block away.

And ConAdian 2 would have been fun, too. I suggested that the marketing slogan be "This time, bring your friends!" since the the 1994 Worldcon in Winnipeg was the smallest North American Worldcon in many years. OTOH, we would have had to do something about the lack of airline seats into the city.

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[info]_darkvictory
2006-06-27 12:13 am UTC (link)
The LASFS marketing committee would be interested in "LASFS MEMBER" and "DEATH WILL NOT RELEASE YOU" for the club table.

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