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Westercon 60 The Drink Tank Issue 135 This is the issue after the issue things to me! the Fanzine Lounge into an old- where I talk all about Westercon. And You also reference me with Mr. fashioned speak-easy. I love the fact there’s more! I’ve got another JayCon Schachat and the divine Espana as that I can create legends. review, a piece from friends about writing for various ’zines. Oh noes, so PS: Whither “The Lost Issue” of Westercon, more art and photos and a untrue! I am fanzinishly monogamous, the Fanzine Lounge fanzine? Where did Jame Bacon article! So, no more delay, in that I have written only for your that material *go*, exactly? a LoCing we will go with Leigh Ann Little Thing. That’s a very good question. It’s on Hildebrand! That’s true, isn’t it? My mistake. my machine somewhere, but the two Hardly the worst I’ve made in these searches I’ve done have not turned My dear Mr. Garcia, pages, eh? it up. I’m rather vexed... Finally, I want to comment on Oh my goodness, that my first your narrative about Getting That Thanks Leigh Ann. mention in your Westercon issue Party Started. The divine Espana (tm) (#134) should be with the epithet “that did not “tell me to go and get” the Stoli Queen of Snark!” I think you do me Vanil. Au contraire, I offered it freely wrong, Mr. Garcia! I mean, certainly, to her as an expression of Southern I can be a bit sharp of tongue, but I hospitality. She and I then went off think it’s a bit much to call me the together to retrieve the bottle from Queen of Snark. my room, where it had been waiting Duchess, maybe. for just the right moment. Now, we Queen? Oh, I don’t know . certainly did demand that you and Duchess is good, but honestly, you your beeotch/fine assistant Mr. deserve better. Marquess? The First Schachat get ice and mixers, but that Lady of Snark? I mean there is was largely to prevent the awkward Kathy Griffith, but I think in our moment at a party when there is world, you take the pie. liquor, but, well, no ice. Shots are just In other errata, you mention so uncouth, unless you’re under 22, my appearance on Sunday, which in college, or engaged in a drinking almost makes it seem like I arrived contest against the locals in some bar then. I imagine that all the alcohol in Nepal or someplace obscure like may have weakened your memory, that. Just sayin’. else you’d remember my joining you in the Fanzine Lounge as early as Friday Cordially, evening. I would hate for anyone to Leigh Ann Hildebrand think I came late to the party, so to True enough, though the legend speak. well read like this: Chris ORDERED That is true. The booze, it does Leigh Ann to get booze and turn this campus-based convention since to march them into the Academic plaza John Purcell, a TAFF nominator and 1969, really took this idea and ran over time. CorFluite, is up next! with it. Check out this photo and an And now, let’s welcome our next excerpt from the Battalion, the Texas contestant: Christopher J. Garcia ---- A&M University student newspaper: Come on down! I’m the next contestant on The Loc Wade Barker - THE BATTALION is Right! Senior biochemistry and chemis- What with your recountings of try major Whitney Morlatt makes a mold the fannish game shows you regularly for a gnome using a hardening rubber regale your faithful readers with, I fig- compound Thursday afternoon at an ured that is the perfect salutation for apartment. this loc. Students may soon notice 1,000 Can not argue with you! unfamiliar figures invading Academic It definitely sounds like Wester- Plaza. con 60 was a blast. You made me jeal- On Mar. 6, members of the stu- ous that I wasn’t there! That “SF Says dent organization Cepheid Variable will You” game show to fill in the prover- place 1,000 gnomes around the plaza bial pregnant pause during/after the as a way to promote AggieCon 38. Masquerade appears to have been a AggieCon is the annual science rousing success. I love interactive pro- fiction convention produced by the mem- gramming at cons; the more audience bers of Cepheid Variable. It is also the participation, the better, and the sillier oldest and largest student-run science is always A Good Thing. fiction convention in the nation. I love doing these game shows, both Whitney Morlatt, a senior bio- The idea backfired a bit, though. as a panelist and, it turns out, as chemistry {sic} and gnome officer for Ce- Within hours of the gnome horde’s a host. Kevin does a great job with pheid Variable, said the Reveille Club of placement, they began disappearing: Match Game, and Tom Galloway’s Houston provided the initial donation of stolen by students (most likely) who Win Tom Galloway’s Money is a hit the gnomes for the project to get started, thought they were just too cool to pass too! and Lowe’s in Bryan provided the plas- up. The actual final gnome count was The theme of this year’s Wester- ter at cost. of the approximately 500 or so gnomes con - “Gnomeward Bound” - reminds “Our group is well on the way actually made, less than 40 actually me that this past spring’s AggieCon towards our goal,” she said. “We are remained for the planned “March of the had gnomes figuring prominently in planning to make 1,000 actual plaster Gnomes” for opening ceremonies. Liter- the advertising leading up to and at lawn gnomes with the initial dispersion ally an underwhelming event. I have no the con. Cepheid Variable, the TAMU centered in (Academic) Plaza.” idea what you would call someone who student SF club that has been running After that, Cepheid Variable plans is caught stealing these yard decora- tions; it would require an entirely new gnomenclature. No matter how you saw Westercon return to the Bay Area, slice it, they were purlawned. under the name “Gnomeward Bound,” That is an unexcusable pun. You at the San Mateo Marriott Hotel over should be cast out! June 30-July 3, 2007, with activities Say, on page 6, is that caricature starting before and extending after the of Espana Sherriff by Jason Schachat convention, making it nearly six days accurate? Somehow I cannot believe long for those of us who took the time that such a pretty, sweet, young thing off to do so. like Espana would have such a foul The Bay Area had not hosted a mouth. Say it ain’t so... Westercon since 1987. Even worse, She’s not nearly that caustic. Why, the 1987 Westercon was, to put it we played pool just the other day as kindly as I can, not well-favored and she only let out one long, pro- organizationally. Combining the fanity-laden tirade towards me. somewhat sour taste that “Westercon She was downright ‘bring-home-to- Episode XXXX” left in Bay Area mama’ decent! conrunners mouths with a couple of The JayCon report was fun read- Last Gnome Standing: Worldcons sapping away all of the ing, too. All these reports of the totally Westercon 60 SMOF points for such things and a fun time you’re having way out west is Kevin Standlee mechanical change to its site selection simply making me quite frustrated. I system in the late 1980s that may have am so con-depraved. *sigh* Fortunate- Part 1: The Prodigal biased the system against northern ly, there are more cons coming up that Convention Returns California locations, and you get a are nearby and affordable. situation where a convention came to Westercon is one of the longest By the end of the year, I’ll the Bay Area with sixty years’ heritage Thanks for the fun zine, and I hope continuously-running science fiction behind it, and the overwhelming you have sufficiently recovered from conventions in the world. It was reaction of Bay Area fans was, “Huh?” Westercon by now. founded in 1948 as an alternative Westercons used to be bigger All the best, convention for people on the West than they are today. At their peak John Coast who couldn’t afford to travel in the late 1980s, over 2,000 people to Worldcon – after all, traveling to Recovered from Westercon? Are you attended Westercon, making the far off, exotic places like New York kidding? I might still be a little convention equivalent in size and City was well beyond the means of hungover from the Sunday night scope to BayCon. But the last twenty mere fen (except Forry Ackerman). bachanalia! At least I’ve started years have seen the convention shrink Like Worldcon, Westercon is held in resting and if I have more days substantially for a variety of reasons. a different city somewhere in Western like this Sunday, I’ll be back in top There are more “local” conventions like North America (including Hawaii) each flight form in less time than I’d BayCon, Loscon, OryCon, V-Con, and year, and is selected by a bidding have thought! Norwescon, and fewer fans perceive process similar to Worldcon. 2007 the need to travel to an out-of-town a failed Westercon event when there’s an annual one that bid.) With 25 satisfies their interests in fandom. years’ experience Moreover, the historical “roots” of running BayCon Westercon are the LA-Bay Area axis, out of the San and there is a theory that while Jose Doubletree Westercon travels all over western (née Red Lion), North America, if it doesn’t return there was a crew to the “home soil” regularly, it starts of experienced to wither.
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