Current mood:	chipper
Current music:	The James Heathering Band - "Low Rider"
Entry tags:	ribbons

...In this way Mr. K will challenge the world!....
Ribbon update: golly, there are a lot of ribbons going through my hands. Over 100 styles; easily more than 7000 ribbons total, maybe eight, not sure yet. (Yes, that's right, if you manage to collect one each just of the silly ribbons coming from RV Awards, your badge string would be longer/taller than you are.) I'm ordering the ribbons for two bids, a number of laconiv department and division heads who want frivolous extras, and at least one convention that wants promotional ribbons. I'm sending the ribbons in to the ribbon ladies a thousand or two at a time. A few people haven't paid me yet; if they don't pay up by the time I send in the last batch of thousand or so to be printed, they're not getting their ribbons.

Seventeenth part of the saga. Some plain ribbons that I ordered a few of in 2003-2004, and haven't re-ordered since.

• LESBIAN TRAPPED IN A MAN'S BODY
• NOREASCON 4 FILM CREW
• NEWSZINE

At ConDor in 2003, with some friends we brainstormed up a bunch of ribbon ideas. "Lesbian trapped in a man's body" was just too subtle to be a big hit; your ribbon text should be short and punchy, not a riddle you have to take an extra moment to puzzle out. The fact that I'd been mistaken for a lesbian online notwithstanding.

Mike Donahue wanted some "Noreascon 4 Film Crew" ribbons printed up; we printed small quantities and reordered them. The last batch referred to "Noreason 4" instead of "Noreascon 4." (In typo veritas?) Of course, once the 2004 Worldcon was over, we didn't need anymore of those.

The yellow NEWSZINE ribbons have been sitting in my ribbon bins, awaiting need. I ran across my leftover Chicon 2000 purple "Newsletter" ribbons with the white printing; I believe I gave them away to someone slaving over a Worldcon newszine. (Michael? Jan? 2004? 2005? It's all a blur. I could look it up, I suppose...) I guess I'm going to need more for my people this year, if I get as many people working on the newsletter as I think I might.

• SECOND GENERATION FAN
• THIRD GENERATION FAN
• TOO MANY 501(C)(3)'s

Okay, this is a trick question, so to speak; I spelled out SECOND and THIRD when I ordered these from Parker Systems in 2003, and switched to writing 2ND and 3RD on my later orders from RV Awards. I have plenty of the new fancy 2nd/3rd style; the original SECOND/THIRD ribbons have long since been handed out.

A 501(C)(3) is an IRS non-profit organization category (Educational); not all non-profit cons have a 501(c)(3) umbrella, but a lot of them do. SCIFI Inc. for example. This was Christian's idea again. I ordered them in 2003; I believe we just ran out at baycon when Christian took them to give away. Either that, or he still has a few in his luggage. If you see him, you could ask him...