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- From: michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
- Subject: Anime Expo Conflicts
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725341125snx@izumi.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <50H0VB1w165w@shakala.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 03:38:45 GMT
- Organization: JAFWA, Cal-Animage Zeta, Perth, Western Australia
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- In article <50H0VB1w165w@shakala.com> jake@shakala.com writes:
- >
- > The following is a message from Charlie Prael, who follows the
- > r.a.a. by remote (I download for him). After reading my last
- > post, he asked me if I would post this for him:
- >
-
- <sigh> Yet another of these "It's all Mike's fault" posts...
-
- > Most of you probably thought that the convention went fairly
- > smoothly, with a few minor glitches (such as the 1/2 hour late
- > start of the masquerade). I certainly hope so. From the inside,
-
- Bingo, first and foremost the outward appearance counts. If people run
- themselves ragged on the workings, I consider that a small price. I
- most likely will be working for Expo 93, and I expect a lot of
- hardships (running a local chapter of Cal-Animage with a few other
- people I KNOW how traumatic just THAT can be) behind the scenes, but if
- we can carry off a good outward appearance (which I believe we can),
- then the con will be a success.
-
- > Many of you think that AE92 ran smoothly, and that as a result
- > MT should bepraised. It didn't run smoothly because of him.
- > It ran smoothly IN SPITE of him.
-
- Okay, I would like the people who are running AA to come forward after
- their con next year and tell their tales of praise (TRUTHFULLY) of how
- well the con went for their staff.
-
- ALL conventions that I have been involved with (locally in just a very
- small capacity) have been near killers on the staff, because some
- things will crop up unexpectedly. Nobody is perfect, and cons will
- always create friction amongst people who work on it.
-
- Maybe I'm a masochist, and I look forward to being worked like a dog,
- and I know I will most likely gripe a bit about being worn out during
- the con, but what it will come down to is that afterwards I will look
- at my achievements proudly and count the con a success. I know I will
- be working with a lot of friends (some from the net) and I count that
- much more than what looks like a lot of bruised egos (some of who seem
- too lazy to drive the distance from SJ to SF to help run a con).
-
- > What Charlie does not mention is (1) that he is not a member
- > of Anime America, mostly because he is running the Operations
- > Division for the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention in
- > San Francisco, and doesn't have the time to do both.
-
- And are YOU a member/staff of AA? Or are you 100% impartial??? :)
-
- > Jake McFarland - jake@shakala.com
- > Shakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA 408-734-2289
-
- No comment.
-
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