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Subject: January M.A.S.S. F.I.L.C. Bulletin
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:25:33 GMT
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From  ucivax!athena-as-well.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!jsl
From: jsl@Athena.MIT.EDU
To:   pho@MIT.Edu, yduJ@Stony-Brook.SCRC.Symbolics.Com, AKAtlas@MIT.Edu,
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 11:22:43 -0500
Cc:   jsl@mit.edu

It's past time again for this announcement.

The January meeting of the Massachusetts Associated Silly Singers
Fannishly Inflicting Lyrical Chaos will occur on Sunday, 31 January
1993, in MIT room 8-105.  As usual for Sunday meetings, it nominally
starts at 2PM, will probably be rolling pretty well by 3PM, and will end
some time after 6PM.  Directions, such as they are, at the end of this
message.

                         Meeting Format

There will be a business meeting occupying perhaps as much as 15
minutes.  The only item of business that *I* know about is the selection
of time and place for the March meeting.  Normally, this occurs at 6PM,
but this time if I can cajole agreement from the people present (and via
e-mail in advance so object now!) I'd prefer to hold that part of the
meeting at 4PM.  Lets set a new record for brevity!  (Anyone for 30
seconds?)  We don't stand much on ceremony.

As usual, the meeting will be potluck.  The contributions tend to be
very uneven -- lots of people bring nothing, which is OK -- but that way
the refreshments at least tend to scale with the number of attendees.
In addition to food and the possibility of being fed, bring friends,
voices, songs, songbooks, instruments, tape recorders, enthusiasm, or
whatever subset may be convenient.

                            Next Month

The February meeting will be held Sunday, February 21, at the Sheraton
Tara in Framingham on route 9 just west of I-90 exit 12.  It is our
intention that this be held as Boskone is winding down, and that it not
be necessary to buy a membership in the convention just to attend our
meeting.  Exact details in next month's bulletin.

                            Con Report

Arisia was held in Boston on the 15-17 of January, and had a very
ambitious filk program, featuring Cynthia McQuillin and Jane Robinson
(from Berkeley, CA).  It was mainly organized by Harold Feld, and came
off with very few glitches.  There was a filk track that ran
continuously through the convention; if you liked, you could have
attended nothing but filk activities and filled up all your time.
Thanks to all the people who donated to the filk fan fund to make the
guests possible.

                   You *Want* to Go to Boskone

Boskone this year will feature Duane Elms as the filk guest. The filk
programming is more modest.  On Saturday, there will be a voice
workshop, a guitar workshop, and a 100-minute concert.  On Sunday, there
will be one-shots for 1 hour including, I hope, a contest for songs
written at the convention.  Tales from the White Hart and Wail Songs
will both be dealing filk and folk recordings and publications.  There
will be multiple filk rooms on Friday and Saturday evenings starting
about 10PM, including a hymnal sing for neofilkers.  There will also be
a horror karaoke (sp?) on Saturday night -- probably in both senses of
the word 'horror'.

The M.A.S.S.  F.I.L.C. meeting will probably be synonymous with the dead
dog filk, but will begin a bit later than usual to start after the
one-shots.  Because of a book-keeping accident, last year's fan fund,
which was collected to help bring Kathy Mar, is being spent *again* this
year; thanks again to the people who donated last year, and to NESFA for
resolving the error in our favor.

                           Directions

MIT is at 77 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, which is on the #1 Bus
line (Harvard/Dudley).  It is also accessible from the Kendall Square
stop on the Red Line.  If you come by automobile, parking is relatively
easy to find on Sunday on Massachusetts Avenue or near it either on
Vassar Street, Memorial Drive, or the parking lot behind Kresge
Auditorium.

77 Massachusetts Avenue is the entrance at the west end of the "infinite
corridor".  You can ask any MIT student or staff member how to find
this.  If you are coming from Kendall Square, you'll have to ask; it's
not hard but it is too complex for me to describe here.

Building 8 is the subsection of the main MIT building complex at the
east end of the infinite corridor.  Room 105 is on the first floor, on
the south side of the corridor about 20 or 80% of the way along its
length, depending on which end you enter.  There are large lobbies at
the west end and the midpoints of the corridor; pretend they are much
narrower.

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