Running a Convention

Running a convention is like a controlled crash, you have alot of chaotic events you know which way you want it to go and you have to try and steer it that way.

This year we did a very good job of steering.

You also have to hang loose and be ready to change direction quickly.

We were helped by all the people who showed up and threw parties, like the Red Dwarf, Farscape and Buffy parties, the LA 06 and Seattle 05 bids and the always realiable Gaylaxians, CFG and GT/Dorsai.

I also tryed to bring more new faces for panels from out of town and we got Jacqueline Carey, Rob Sawyer and Karl Shroeder. At least I think it was me it might have been them.

The late checkout and the allnight pool helped too.

Finally we had three kick ass guests of honour in

Artist Alan "Southern Gentleman" Clark
Author Melissa "Iron Driver" Scott
Scientist Jack "Consumate Professional" Cohen

Finally you have to schedule yourself a two to three hour gap for dinner on Saturday so you can go out for Thai.

The Dance at Confusion and Her Friends

I have two words to say about the dance:

"Andy Kaufman"

To tell the truth things turned out about what I expected they would last June when we accepted the DJ's offer. We got something different in a DJ and through this exercise we learned alot about the nature of the dance at Confusion.

Its not a dance at all it's performance art!

What a long strange trip it has been 1996-2003

For an interesting comparison look at the program I came up with and ran in 1996 at the Novi Hilton:

http://stilyagi.org/cons/1996/prog.html

With the program we just had at Confusion at the Van Dyke Park Suites:

http://stilyagi.org/cons/2003/?programming

New Icon

Hi I have an icon now.

It may be a picture of scottij playing the sax.

I like it because it's a black and white picture of a guy playing a sax.

Combining two of my intereests jazz and and black and white photography.