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Grex Scifi Item 105: Confusion 1999
Entered by krj on Wed Jan 20 09:44:00 UTC 1999:

I think it's time for this annual item.  I'm so gafiated I'm not 
even sure when Confusion is, but I think it's this coming weekend.
Perhaps some of you will file con reports as teasers for those 
of us who aren't going to be there.
 
(A request: if one wants to dump in a huge amount of promotional
information (like the program schedule) please put it in a 
separate item.)

11 responses total.

#1 of 11 by anderyn on Thu Jan 21 01:22:02 1999:

It is this weekend, and I guess I'm going. Not that I plan on staying
long, since I have to work the Ark that night, but I guess I want to
see Lois McMaster Bujold more than I want to bum around the house on
Saturday.

#2 of 11 by robh on Thu Jan 21 13:05:52 1999:

I plan on being there.

#3 of 11 by krj on Fri Jan 22 04:14:11 1999:

Who's at the Ark?  Twila, you *never* stay for the parties!!

#4 of 11 by anderyn on Fri Jan 22 14:35:39 1999:

Um, well, Mustard's Retreat, and I signed up to work the show before
I realized that the con was this weekend, so poot.... anyhow... I dunno 
if I'd *like* the parties --- I never have made one...

#5 of 11 by krj on Mon Jan 25 19:24:21 1999:

So, will anyone bring us a con report?

#6 of 11 by robh on Mon Jan 25 19:33:01 1999:

It was fun.  I'll enter more when I get home from work.  >8)

#7 of 11 by robh on Tue Jan 26 05:01:38 1999:

OK, con stuff.  I took second place in the Babylon 5 trivia
contest, found out that one of my oldest friends in fandom
was dead (not a fun way to start the weekend), went to
several panels (topics: the Y2K problem, the year in SF
media, the Disneyfication of modern storytelling, and
whether SF fans are more tolerant than the culture at large),
spent three hours at the hotel restaurant trying to get dinner,
got lots of good art from the art show, books and a fox
puppet (his name is Reynard) from the dealers' room, played
Stun Runner in the arcade five times and got five of the
top ten scores, played a few games by the poolside, and met
lots of old friends I hadn't seen in two years.

That sums up my weekend!

#8 of 11 by anderyn on Wed Jan 27 02:16:17 1999:

 A-ha! I wondered if that was you, Rob~! I was at the B5 panel, 
and thought that there might have been someone I kinda knew on
there.

Um. Went only Saturday, for part of the day. Saw Bujold, went to
eh Art show, had a nice lunch at the restaurant next door, um,
talked to some folks, headed back to Ann Arbor....

#9 of 11 by tpryan on Wed Jan 27 04:26:24 1999:

        I took second place in the B5 quiz last year.  This year not]
even qualified, but attended.
        Russ Cage built a smoke ejector for the smoking con-suite, it
did work, keeping the smoke out of the hallway and almost making the
room tolerable to non-smokers.
        I wonder if ConFusion is the only 1,000 person even that is
held at that hotel any weeekend of the year.  They seem to fall on
some of the support issues, like bathrooms out of hand paper towels
by noon.
        I got more books to the Klingons at the Alien Empire table
to help them raise money for Leader Targs (Dogs) for the Blind.  AE
was also showing the first productions of "babylon park".

#10 of 11 by void on Sat Feb 6 14:04:45 1999:

   i spent much of my con gophering in the art show.

#11 of 11 by dea on Thu Apr 8 02:17:46 1999:

i have heard that the con this year was not one of its best years, i hope they
do much better next year.

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