Three conventions, no waiting

[gerisullivan]

Coming Soon to a Convention Near You Rennie, the official Reno in 2011 carpetbag created by Brad Foster made his/her/its debut on Memorial Day weekend as TR Renner and Mark Herrup launched the first of many (many!) Reno in 2011 bid parties.

Are you heading to ConRunner, Midwestcon, or ApolloCon this weekend? Reno in 2011 agents will be in England, Ohio, and Texas, listening, talking, and partying with fans. They'll gladly take your money, too. :-)

Look for our UK Agent, Steve Cooper, at ConRunner in Wolverhampton. It's the first non-US convention we'll be at, but it's far from the last! The vote is in Montréal, after all....

On Saturday night, Jim Mann, Laurie Mann, and Ben Yalow are hosting a Reno party at Midwestcon in Cincinnati. Look for flyers announcing the room number, or just ask -- last year, three different people I didn't know each told me where the Montréal and Australia parties were. Nice!

ApolloCon Fan GoH Anne KG Murphy is representing Reno in Houston-- we'll likely post a special report about our activities there sometime on Saturday. Maybe even with a picture or three....

If you're like me and spending the weekend at home, wishing you were at any or all of the above, please take a minute and swing by the Reno in 2011 website for a quick convention fix. We've updated it with links to pictures and mini-reports from Balticon, BayCon, ConQuesT, Marcon, WisCon, and Fourth Street Fantasy Convention. There are a few other new things, too -- where we'll be next, an updated supporter list, agents' names, and such. As always, we'll gladly take your money on the website, too.

Seriously -- many, many thanks for the active, positive support we've received this past month, the first month of the bid. The Reno in 2011 Worldcon bid already has over 160 Supporters, Friends, and Really Close Friends. Your contributions make the parties and other fun surprises possible. I'm looking forward to helping us all have a mountainous good time in Denver.

See you on the Funway!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I mentioned to someone at Balticon that your carpetbag looks more like a shopping bag. The proportions are weird and the handles don't look right.

Susan de Guardiola
http://www.rixosous.com

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Shopping is a good thing to do at a Worldcon, too.

There's an interesting contest in there -- what kind of bag is Rennie, really? And is it male, female, omni-gendered, or something else?

Though there's the risk that it would turn into a pseudo-Rorschach test. Especially if we add in Rennie's cousin, coming soon to a Worldcon near you. I think we'll just stick with a naming contest for him instead. We were going to have a naming contest for Rennie, but the bag seems to have named itself.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say what Susan did, although I didn't know it was meant to be a carpetbag.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

so where's the LJ group already?

[ckd]

Are you perhaps looking for renoin2011?

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. I meant to post this there, not here!

Oops. Off to fix that.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

It's some number of options down my "Post to" list and I mistakenly breezed right by that menu bar, mistakenly posting the message to the default...here.

corwynofamber set up the renoin2011 LJ community the day the bid was announced. I'm glad to see you there! (Apologies for inflicting a duplicate post on you.)

[erikvolson.livejournal.com]

What's the price for "You Bastards. I hate you all?"

What about "Sort of friends?"

"Not a friend, but I'm dating one of your friends?"

"Only a friend in the LiveJournal Sense?"

"It was just a crush, anyway?"

"Oh, just have the money!"

"Wait, I joined what?"

[jennlk]

or "I don't know any of these people, but it looks like a good party to crash"?

what about "those people look really crowded in that handbasket -- maybe I should chip in so they can buy a bigger one"?

"how much did I have to drink?"

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Grin. The handbasket response is perfect. On so many levels -- perfect, perfect, perfect!

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

We gladly accept donations of all sizes; we wouldn't dream of limiting you by putting a specific price tag on each.

Your clever categories remind me of the time my employer invited employees in my department and our spouses or significant others to the company box for a Twins game. I asked if I could bring an insignificant other. They were amused and said yes. And I called the play correctly -- David Emerson was utterly delighted to be my insignificant other that day, and for years after, too. The feeling was mutual.