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

[fibrowitch .]

Will there be an Arisia party room?  Good thing I own  a Cotton Candy
machine!  Makes it hard to not celebrate every day as Cotton Candy day.

On 7/27/07, Rick Kovalcik <rk at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Smofcon 25 is a production of Massachusetts Convention Fandom, Inc., a
> 501 (c)(3) convention organizing corporation.
>
> --
>
> 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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