[ST] National//////// Cotton////// Candy///// Day///, er, Smofcon

[Rick Kovalcik]

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From: Deb Geisler <dgeisler at suffolk.edu>
Date: Jul 27, 2007 4:19 AM
Subject: Would you forward this, please?
To: Rick Kovalcik <KOVALCIK at alum.mit.edu>, Adina Adler <asquared at gmail.com>

On this, the 27th day of July, we celebrate two vitally important
holidays:  "Take Your Houseplant for a Walk Day" and "Walk on Stilts
Day."  But if taking your houseplants for a walk on stilts isn't really
your cup of tea, and as long as you're sitting at your computer anyway,
we recommend that you pre-book now to celebrate an even more important
holiday.

*Smofcon* falls this year on "National Cotton Candy Day" on December 7,
and you can be in *Boston* for this sweetly important observance, at the
convention for convention-runners.  At Smofcon, we'll examine, dissect,
share, and discuss everything con-runners want (and need) to talk about:
from budgeting to logistics to facilities to program to marketing.

Memberships are still available at the rate of $60, and you can buy them
online via our secure server, or print out a registration form to send
us in snail mail.  For either option, see our web site at
http://www.mcfi.org/smofcon

Please also note that hotel reservations at the delightful (and comfy!)
Hilton Boston Logan Airport are open through November 13 (on "World
Kindness Day").  See http://www.noreascon.org/smofcon/hotel.html for
more information and to book online.

And for that special fan in your life, remember that Smofcon 25
memberships make a *very thoughtful gift* for birthdays, anniversaries,
Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, Solstice, or "Weary Willie Day" (which
happens to fall on December 9, the last day of Smofcon 25).

We're hoping every day is special for you; we want to make sure Smofcon
is, too.

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Smofcon 25 is a production of Massachusetts Convention Fandom, Inc., a
501 (c)(3) convention organizing corporation.

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Oh, yeah -- we're not making all that holiday stuff up.  At the very
least, we're succumbing to someone else's marketing.  See
http://www.brownielocks.com/month2.html and http://www.holidays.net/ for
more information about weird holidays.
--
Deborah M. Geisler, Ph.D.
Graduate Program Director
Dept. of Communication & Journalism
Suffolk University
Boston, MA  02108
     Ph. +1 617.573.8504
     Fax +1 617.742.6982

"I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending
of the book first.' That really irritates me,"
[J.K. Rowling] said. "It's like someone coming to dinner,
just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while
you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on."
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