From: michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: AnimeWars '93
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 19:34:06 GMT
Organization: JAFWA, Cal-Animage Zeta, Perth, Western Australia


In article <Zku3NB1w165w@clubzen.fidonet.org> fafhrd@clubzen.fidonet.org writes:
 > 

Well, once again I am sadly proven right in my prediction for
"AnimeWars '93"... <sigh> A bit underhanded of the Con going for the
same weekend as the Expo, to say the very least.

 > Dear To Whom It May Concern,

Dear WHO,

Who are you???

 > Mike Tatsugawa has released his preliminary information about Anime Expo 
 > '93. Therefore, he has given me leave to speak.

Really, where??

 > The week following Anime Expo I spoke to John, and he found Mike's offer 
 > to have no merit. He is not interested in joining Mike. I relayed this 
 > information to Mike via e-mail, and have not heard from him since. 

You live in the same city. Isn't it possible that email got lost? Have
you heard of this brill invention called the PHONE?? (Sheesh, people on
computer nets seem to entrust their lives to electronic communication
when the phone can clarify matters in a couple of seconds.)

 > I despise working behind the scenes;

What I despised last year was not being aware that the Con was FOR
PROFIT. The fliers and info seemed to indicate it was "SPONSORED" by
Gainax and a couple of other companies, but not that they would gain
directly monetarily from it.

(Okay, so I'm biased. In Australia 90% of cons are non-profit... :)

 > Thus....I, with the support and able assistance of John McLaughlin, 
 > Animeigo, USMC, and quite a bit of the staffs of Animecon and Anime Expo, 
 > will be running Animecon '93, to be held the Fourth of July Weekend at 
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Low blow, very low blow.

 > pompous, but I really couldn't think of anything better). One of them I 
 > have heard is that I want to run Animecon '93 for the business contacts.
 > Let me confirm this rumor. I WANT THE BUSINESS CONTACTS!!! I have 

It sounds like YOU are running this con for personal reasons, not Mike.
Mike runs it for fandom, you run it for yourself.

 > benefit for my business. And yes, I will run Animecon '93 as a business, 
 > 'cause, dammit, it is (at least in the eyes of the government). Whether 
 > it is run by a for-profit corp. (such as Animecon '91), or by a 
 > non-profit corp. (as was Anime Expo '92), the interactions necessary to 
 > make it successful (with the hotel, with various supply companies, etc.) 
 > MUST be done on as professional a basis as possible. 

It can be run LIKE a business, as long as the money goes to the right
places. NOT the big corporations.

 > I have already begun assembling a staff, and I welcome all of you to join 
 > with us to provide anime fandom with the best possible show.

Begun scavenging staff, more like. John's visit (sorry, Brin) to the
Expo was nothing more than a recruitment drive for staff for a rebel
con.

 > Thanx for listening. 

I was reading it. Listening I was to the 3x3 Eyes soundtrack. (But I
don't expect you to know what that is. :)

 > I can be reached mundanely at my store from Noon to Midnight at:
 > A Wrinkle In Time
 > 19770 Homestead Road
 > Cupertino, CA 95014
 > (408) 255-9406

Are people expected to go up to the person behind the desk and say "Are
you Fafhrd?" (Sounds like Steve Martin's character in THE MAN WITH TWO
BRAINS.)

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