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Jim at RT Convention
The Dread Pharaoh Roberts:
--- Quote from: Mickey Finn on April 19, 2007, 03:59:44 PM ---Cathy, let me introduce you to A-kon...15-20k people ;)
And these are small potatoes compared to Dragon Con & Comic Con.
Fencon is amazingly tiny for the rep it has.
DFWCon is an comfortably sized writers con, probably a bit smaller than RT, definately less authors, decidedly more than Fencon.
Aggie-con, btw, is one of the longest running cons. Small, intimate, but guests like Terry Pratchett, Harlan Ellison, etc.
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FenCon has that rep because we try to make sure EVERYone has a good time - guests, fans, vendors... The only time I'm aware of a guest not enjoying FenCon...well, I'm not sure he'd have enjoyed anything at all. Bit of a prima-donna. But he was still pleasant to the fans.
I have a strange feeling we've probably met. I have friends in ORAC, and am usually locked in the ops room all weekend when FenCon is on, putting out brush fires (or, occasionally, pushing a Dalek down the hallway to heckle the fans). I don't know if we run in the same circles, but it sounds like those circles may intersect once in a while...
Mickey Finn:
I used to be in charge of Meri's Minions (the position Robi Holman now holds, she used to be on my team), aka PsiCops, aka Bureau 13, aka Division Six.
Do you, by any chance, have long brown hair, glasses, and a sardonic look on your face much of the time? (I know the latter describes many people in conops.) Early to mid 20s, female? I see that person in conops alot. ;)
Checks profile...nope, yer male. That's not you. Ok, how about tall, thin, light hair and glasses, early 20's?
I've only made one Fencon, the one Jim was at. I was one of the ones in the Resnick panel who got caught in the hurricane traffic in Houston and couldn't make it, the previous year.
Claudia Smith, my roommate, made the first one and praised you guys to high heaven.
The Dread Pharaoh Roberts:
Nope, I'm a big guy, slowly losing the battle to resist becoming a "fat guy" (I may have, in fact, lost this battle...but I'm still fighting.), with short dark hair and a close-trimmed beard. No glasses, but the sardonic look is likely. I think the long-haired guy with the glasses may be my friend Jim, who's actually in charge of con ops for FenCon. I'm the other ops guy.
At last year's FenCon I had a bit of a Marine Corps-style buzz cut - the result of a communication problem with a hairdresser a few days before. "You really want it that short?" "Well, no, that's a bit shorter than I had planned..." :o Still had the beard, though, trimmed to match. Unfortunately, I only got to see about 30 minutes of the actual con last year, so I only really met the folks who came by the ops room. If you saw the Dalek make its trip down the hallway, I was the one of the guys pushing it - the one with the microphone throwing wisecracks out through the Dalek's voicebox.
You should come back this year - we've got a new hotel (the hotel was the one recurring compalint last year...they really dropped the ball. Again, and again, and again...) and it looks like we're gonna keep growing.
Mickey Finn:
"with short dark hair and a close-trimmed beard."
So, not Woodchuck, then. ;)
Claudia's definately going...she's a huge Connie Willis fan... I'm planning on it, it's not definate yet.
Wolfhowls:
What?What are all these Con's I've never heard of? It's like a whole new world has opened up to me. So what are the list of Con that are in Texas and the Major Con everyone goes to?
Hey Mickey it was really cool meeting you and your roommates in person ....Hey here is a thought maybe all the Houston fas could do that again?
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