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Why Do You Go to So Many of Those Convention Thingies?

It's a less than three days until the Memorial Day weekend, so me and Scott, we're all set to head off to WisCon, the greatest convention in the known universe. We've turned down a bunch of invites here in Manhattan and our explanation for saying no has, as usual, raised eyebrows. Most of our NYC friends aren't part of the sf or publishing world and some are puzzled by our disappearing periodically to attend conventions. Disappearing to Sydney for months and years at a time they understand (sort of—do New Yorkers ever really understand people who live anywhere but NYC whenever they possibly can?), but sf conventions? In the Midwest? Huh? The short answer as to why we go to ...
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Posted by Justine at 11:16, May 25th, 2004 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Musings | Comment now »

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