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[doodlesthegreat]

Tip 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.

Comments

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

The event in question evidently can't foot the bill for more than two packs of 99-cent sweet rolls for the consuite...

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

I should point out that the primary excuse I was given was by the con chair was "Oh, that person isn't a regular GOH, they're a special guest. We don't pay for those."

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...

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

It's like an episode of "Police Squad" where the Special Guest would be shown getting killed in the opening credits and nowhere else in the show.

[wordslinger.livejournal.com]

(open mouth... dumbfounded expression)... say WHAT??????

Dear gods. Which con was this????

[wordslinger.livejournal.com]

Nebbermind. Just figgered it out.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

Can't hide the truth from Momma Mel. =};-3

[thaily.livejournal.com]

Did the con staff think the special guest had a short bus to his disposal or something?

If I were said guest I'd bill them for using the art to promote the event.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

No, the artist in question is a nice person and has let it roll off like water on a duck's back.

But I have an idea...