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The Dirty Linen Better Be Dirty
I’m looking forward to steering away from the political internals of con committees and talk about more fun fan things like award ceremonies and masquerades (wigs, lycra and capes, oh my).
But I have a bugbear to get out of my system and that’s the public resignation.
I’ve talked previously about the not uncommon occurrence of committee members ( Read more... ) -
The Committee of Commonsense Professionalism - Part Two
In the ideal realm of the con committee all members are equal and when it comes to courtesy and the sharing of information and ideas this is basically the way it should be. But that doesn’t mean all responsibilities are equal and in reality not all committee members are as important as others and those levels of importance will also vary throughout ( Read more... ) -
The Committee of Commonsense Professionalism - Part One
A con committee is a team of volunteers and they deserve the gratitude of the members for their services. Even when a convention was a disappointment or a bit of a mess we should still appreciate that at least the event actually happened. So the standard convention committee member has a reasonably respected non-professional status when it comes to ( Read more... ) -
Guest Who
Guests, who needs guests?
I thought it would be fun to open this with how we don’t need no guests. We don’t go to conventions for the guest, like we don’t go to the convention for the programming. But the truth is that guests are important to a convention (programming too, but that’s for another time). We need guests. We need them for us to ( Read more... ) -
Sex Life of Fans
Sexual goings-on at conventions are a natural adult proclivity and fans have their own special brands of play. At any regular science fiction convention there’ll be the guy with mild Aspergers looking on the white board for directions to the Furry “Scritch & Yiff” Party, the resident Leisure Suit Larry who tries to chat up every woman in the ( Read more... ) -
Good leaders need a good pair of bollocks
Democracy is good for a country, not a convention.
I guess with the last piece I left you with a bit of a cliffhanger. The con committee losing their direction, a convenor losing their faith, the fate of friendships in the balance, and what will become of the con?
Well, lets go back in time, back to the beginning.
The con begins as an idea. An idea ( Read more... ) -
Bollocks of Leadership
Convenor, it is on your head. Deal with it
A single person rarely brings the seed of a convention forth. Usually it forms itself in the air between three or four people, often while caught in a con induced high and within the loud din of a room party (A bad time to make such decisions - though far less conventions would happen if they weren’t). It ( Read more... ) -
Dream cons are bollocks
I'm giving over my lj for a time to a project designed to get something out of my system.
My plan is to deal out, in no particular order, my thoughts about small science fiction conventions, and the running thereof, based on my experiences with Perth's Swancon.
People who know me well enough have no doubts about my affection for this long running ( Read more... ) -
The Great Monkey Poo Mountain Adventure Concludes
This is the rest of the facebook adventure in one easy dose.
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Robin know you don't have wait long for a random monkey to start peeing. He runs over, cups his hands... yes, he knows this is getting gross. Ah, man, that stings the eyes!
Robin stunned Cheek Scar Bastard when ( Read more... )
