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The Stilyagi Air Corps is the local Science Fiction fandom group. Recently I started an email mailing list for announcements and discussions for or about the group. If you are interested in joining the mailing list, send me a request to stilyagi-request@hamjudo.mi.org Let me know your favorite mailing address. I will be out of town for a week, so don't expect a quick reply.
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Tell us a little more about the group. Is it just an e-mail type group or do you hold cons and whatnot? Where did the name "Stilyagi" come from? What sorts of discussions are discussed and what sorts of announcements are announced? ;)
I'm a former member of Stilyagi and a frequnter of conventions. I ju[C[D (oops) this conference the other and thought I would make myself known..
Welcome to Grex!
Does anyone know/remeber Hugh Daniels, or any one who works with the Xanadu project. If so, do you know of an e-mail address for any of the above ?
I Know Huel Perkins, the guy on channel 4 news...Does that count?
#1 Stilyagi can from the book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlien (The Stilyagi Air Corps..) This is the Ann Arbor Science Fiction club (I think still a UofM group too..) We discuss anything sci-fi related including the local conventions. (And some stuff non-sci-fi realted..) Come by the meetings on Wensday 9ish at the Old Town and see what it's like!
<vidar drops in from the twelfth story window, and lands on skezz lightly, then jumps off and onto the ground. He poises his laser-sighted machine gun over his shoulder.>
The Stilyagi are also responsible (if that's the word) for ConFusion, which is held every January, somewhere around here. (Did they decide if they're going to leave the area, like ConClave is going to?) Greetings to all who know me. (You've been warned.)
Huh? When/why is ConClave leaving???
#8 may be refering to ConClaves discussion to have their convention in Lansing this year. However, they decided to have it the the Southfield Whats It Hotel.
ConFusion 10101 will once again be held at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza in Romulus, near Detroit Metro. The date is January 27-29, 1995. Pro GoH is Pamela Sargent, Fan GoH Bob Tucker, TM Kathe Koja, Artist GoH Laura Butler, Science GoH Geoffrey Landis. Membership rates are $20 until Nov. 15, $25 until Jan. 15, $30 at the door. Checks payable checks payable in U.S. funds to AASFA/ConFusion. For further info: ConFusion, P.O. Box 8284, Ann Arbor, MI 48107. The Stilyagi Air Corps is no longer a U-M student organization, and hasn't been for at least three or more years. Nor did the group start out as a student organization. In the beginning (1973) it was a group of Ann Arbor fen who met at the World SF con in Toronto in 1973 and decided to continue meeting when they returned home. The first Stilyagi meetings were held at a book store called the Cloak and Rocket. They sought recognition as a student organization so they could use university facilities to hold their first convention, the A2 Relax I Con, held in the ballroom at the U-M Student Union in February 1974. They maintained their student status so they could continue to hold the weekly Stilyagi business meetings in various meetingg rooms around campus. All of us early Stilyagi members considered the student organization status as nothing more than a "front" which allowed us to access free meeting rooms and use of university copy centers for printing the club fanzine and other publications. During some of those early years, virtually none of the active Stilyagi members were currently enrolled as students so we had to draft the occasional "friend of a friend who was a student to sign the necessary paperwork to keep us "legitimate." Word is that ConClave will indeed be moving to Lansing in 1995. Aparently they've signed a contract and everythi Many of the attendees at the recent ConClave (Oct. 7-9, 1994) seemed less than enthusiastic at this prospect.
What is the reason for ConClave moving? Were they unable to find a decent hotel (i.e., got fed up with the Southfield Days Hotel, or whatever) or did they just feel that more fen would attend if the con were in Lansing? Or ???
I can't believe they thought attendance would improve in Lansing, it's only marginally closer to Chicago, much much much further from Detroit, and not particularly closer to any other big population base. Sure, the folks from Grand Rapids will have an easier time, but how many of them are there? I will be very surprised if ConClave doesn't shows a huge drop in attendance because of this. Goddess knows I won't be able to go this time.
They didn't choose lansing because of it's location or being "nearer" to anybody. They choose lansing because it was the only place they could find a decent hotel to hold the con in. There just arn't any decent hotels in the A^2 detroit area left that can hold a con of Conclave's size. Everybody is sick of the Days/whatever hotel at 9mi& Southfield. .]
That's a good reason. Of course, after a few cons in Lansing, the attendance will go down far enough so they can come back to Detroit, until they get too big again... <robh's head is spinning>
Rob,
There are buses into Lansing, and trains too. It takes about 2hrs from
Ypsi to Mason, back when I was in college. Mason is close to Lansing,
so you could be there in 3 hrs, easy. It was $10 each way back then, but
I have no idea of the prices now. Lansing has a good bus system, too,
and if the show is near MSU, there's a big bus depot there.
Pattie
Pattie, you seriously overestimate how much time and money I'd be willing to spend on ConClave, especially since Confusion is about fifteen minutes drive from my house. Rather than spend money on a bus, I'd just save it and use it on the Dealers' Tables at Confusion. >8) I'm sure the hard-core con-goers will still go to a Lansing con, but many will not.
ROb,
I didn
t realize there were two shows of similar type. :)
Pattie
#18 (pegasus) may not know there are four cons in the area. Clave, Fusion, Traption, and Bacchanal (if you want to call Bacchanal a con; YMMV). As to how long this situation obtains, it's anyone's guess. Aloha!
I see Ditto was held here in Ann Arbor, too.
Thing is, Ditto (like Corflu, the other fanzine fans convention, passes from place to place. Corflu is in Las Vegas this year, and damned if I know where Ditto's going to be next. I missed this year; the Post Office only gives me one weekend off out of every six, and this one wasn't it.
Yeah, I know...just thought I'd mention it, since it was local this year. We got a chance to pick Eric Lindsey up at the airport so he could attend Ditto. He puts out a fanzine called Gegenshine (I probably misspelled that...) that is fun to read.
Yeah, you misspelled it. Good guess. It's "Gegenschein (and trying to type over this damned line noise, I probably just misspelled it, too). Sorry you and Suzi weren't able to actually attend Ditto. See you at ConFusion?
Hmmm, haven't heard yet. I'd sure like to go, though!
I've heard a lot about all different kinds of cons (especially Star Trek ones), but have never been to one. You all realize that there are people at these things, selling all kinds of stuff. Yeah, you know where I'm going with this, don't you? People who make a living selling paintings and jewelry at these things are nothing but .........con-artists.
Wake up you item!
check out Paul Hass's pages at http://www.hamjudo.com
Check out the Stilyagi pages at http:/www.hamjudo.com/confusion.
The de-Hiltonized hotel 9 mile in Southfield for the last
convention had converted at majority of it's rooms into condos, much
to the chargin for that year's con-goers. The move to Lansing/Holt
does provide ConClave with a very good hotel. More rooms than they
can provide programing for. Safe walking distance to breakfast,
lunch & dinner. ConClave will return to Lansing in 1998, this time
not on Yom Kippor in the same weekend.
Found my ConFusion of Winnebagos flier,
January 23, 24 & 25th 1998 at the Van Dyke Suite Hotel & Conference
Center in Warren, MI. All rooms are curretnly held for convention
reservation (810)939-2860 until 1/10/1998. That's near the GM Tech
center by 14mile on Van Dyke in Warren, MI. Better URL:
http://www.stilyagi.org/cons/confusion.html
Pro Guest of Honor (GOH) Connie Willis, Fan GOH Mary Ellen Wessels
(http://www.mewsic.com), that's former GREXer (mew); Artist GOH
Jane Irwin (local Ypsilanti Artist, I got a print of her's on my
wall); Science GOH Dr. Marvin Minsky; and ToastMaster Larry Tucker
--yeah, that guy that posts here every so often.
Paul Hass's hottub on the internet (as seen on channel 50)
can be e-mailed at hottub@hamjudo.com and it will return it's
current status. You can microwave to his cats via his site. Paul
was a mover and shaker at GREX in it's early days, and responsible
for that aaa60 terminial I first GREXed on, way back when.
These fan run conventions are far differnt from the
cash-cons put on by Creation. Much more fan involvement at a
fan run convention. Much more oppurtunity for participation and
creativity at a fan run convention.
He was?
That or was very GREX freindly in it's begining years. I think Paul helped make sure GREX was available in one the incarnations of computer rooms at a ConFusion or ConClave.
Yup, he was very Grex-friendly, but he was too busy to be more involved than that.
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