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doodlesthegreatTip for those who run conventions: If you happen to list someone in all your ads as making a a special appearance and use that person's art on your t-shirt and website, and even list them as a "Special Guest of Honor" in your conbook, it is not too much of a stretch to expect that your event is making an effort to bring that person out and cover their expenses. What is not expected is that said person will have been told only a couple months before the event "Oh, by the way, you have to pay to get here" and will subsequently be unable to show up. And offering excuses for said behavior that are anything but "Yeah, we were dumbshits" rings about as hollow as a press release from the Tea Party.
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Conversational opening:
Moi: "Yeesh. Obama looks like he's aging faster than a mayfly."
Person in chair: "Good, maybe we won't get another four years of him."
Moi: "Would you be willing to explain your position?"
Douchebag in chair: "I don't want to get political."
You pretty much blew that when you opened your mouth. A comment on an individual's health or appearance isn't an opening for retarded statements about your position on their policies and desire for continued poor health which you then try to keep from getting called on. Also, ending your argument with "You're what's wrong with America!" and running off like a coward is a damned good way to prove you lost. Good thing we were at a furry convention. Here, kitty kitty kitty...
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When you're young and silly, it's expected that you will have a focus more on yourself and your personal preferences/hobbies than other aspects of life. However, if you are in the lobby of a hotel describing the inability of people to take your six-breasted hermtaur vixen with dragon wings seriously as the worst thing in the world while I watch images of the Gulf of Mexico being turned into the sump pit of a Jiffy Lube in the background, please understand that I laugh because if I cried I'd probably walk into freeway traffic. And take you with me.
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Conversational opening:
Moi: "Yeesh. Obama looks like he's aging faster than a mayfly."
Person in chair: "Good, maybe we won't get another four years of him."
Moi: "Would you be willing to explain your position?"
Douchebag in chair: "I don't want to get political."
You pretty much blew that when you opened your mouth. A comment on an individual's health or appearance isn't an opening for retarded statements about your position on their policies and desire for continued poor health which you then try to keep from getting called on. Also, ending your argument with "You're what's wrong with America!" and running off like a coward is a damned good way to prove you lost. Good thing we were at a furry convention. Here, kitty kitty kitty...
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When you're young and silly, it's expected that you will have a focus more on yourself and your personal preferences/hobbies than other aspects of life. However, if you are in the lobby of a hotel describing the inability of people to take your six-breasted hermtaur vixen with dragon wings seriously as the worst thing in the world while I watch images of the Gulf of Mexico being turned into the sump pit of a Jiffy Lube in the background, please understand that I laugh because if I cried I'd probably walk into freeway traffic. And take you with me.
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Date: 2010-06-06 05:00 pm (UTC)Re: The Special Guest ...
Date: 2010-06-06 05:10 pm (UTC)Artists are famously short of cash, and it's just kinda expected that they'll need help getting there, not to mention a room and maybe a table. All my sympathy to the artist in question.
Re: The Special Guest ...
Date: 2010-06-06 07:05 pm (UTC)There were also some external problems, mostly due to the hotel changing up the rules at the last minute, but I do not hold a con responsible for such things so long as they do their best to respond to them. Which they did, to their credit. But this was a serious planning and a communications error that started internally, and I hold their feet to the fire because of it.
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Date: 2010-06-06 06:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-06 07:16 pm (UTC)I would like to consider it a sign of my becoming mellower with age that I didn't headbutt this person into next week, but it's more that they would have tossed me out on my ear from the event...
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Date: 2010-06-06 07:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-06 10:36 pm (UTC)Dear gods. Which con was this????
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Date: 2010-06-06 10:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-07 12:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-07 11:31 am (UTC)If I were said guest I'd bill them for using the art to promote the event.
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Date: 2010-06-07 02:43 pm (UTC)But I have an idea...
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Date: 2010-06-06 05:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-06 06:54 pm (UTC)(Besides, anyone who does a small amount of digging can acquire the details easily enough. Just keep in mind that I am a SoCal resident and you can follow the trail from there.)
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Date: 2010-06-06 06:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-06 06:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-06 09:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-07 03:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-06 07:56 pm (UTC)Also, it baffles me how seriously some people take their characters/fetishes l
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Date: 2010-06-07 12:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-07 03:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-07 03:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-07 02:02 pm (UTC)Needless to say, the overall conversation gave me an uncomfortable feeling that caused me to shift alot on my seat.
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Date: 2010-06-07 02:42 pm (UTC)Sorry if it made you uncomfortable, kitty, but there really isn't any other way to fight these assholes.
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Date: 2010-06-07 02:47 pm (UTC)