From: michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Anime Expo Conflicts
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 03:38:45 GMT
Organization: JAFWA, Cal-Animage Zeta, Perth, Western Australia


In article <50H0VB1w165w@shakala.com> jake@shakala.com writes:
 >  
 > The following is a message from Charlie Prael, who follows the
 > r.a.a. by remote (I download for him). After reading my last 
 > post, he asked me if I would post this for him:
 >  

<sigh> Yet another of these "It's all Mike's fault" posts...

 > Most of you probably thought that the convention went fairly 
 > smoothly, with a few minor glitches (such as the 1/2 hour late 
 > start of the masquerade). I certainly hope so.  From the inside, 

Bingo, first and foremost the outward appearance counts. If people run
themselves ragged on the workings, I consider that a small price. I
most likely will be working for Expo 93, and I expect a lot of
hardships (running a local chapter of Cal-Animage with a few other
people I KNOW how traumatic just THAT can be) behind the scenes, but if
we can carry off a good outward appearance (which I believe we can),
then the con will be a success.

 > Many of you think that AE92 ran smoothly, and that as a result 
 > MT should bepraised.  It didn't run smoothly because of him.  
 > It ran smoothly IN SPITE of him.  

Okay, I would like the people who are running AA to come forward after
their con next year and tell their tales of praise (TRUTHFULLY) of how
well the con went for their staff.

ALL conventions that I have been involved with (locally in just a very
small capacity) have been near killers on the staff, because some
things will crop up unexpectedly. Nobody is perfect, and cons will
always create friction amongst people who work on it.

Maybe I'm a masochist, and I look forward to being worked like a dog,
and I know I will most likely gripe a bit about being worn out during
the con, but what it will come down to is that afterwards I will look
at my achievements proudly and count the con a success. I know I will
be working with a lot of friends (some from the net) and I count that
much more than what looks like a lot of bruised egos (some of who seem
too lazy to drive the distance from SJ to SF to help run a con).

 > What Charlie does not mention is (1) that he is not a member 
 > of Anime America, mostly because he is running the Operations
 > Division for the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention in 
 > San Francisco, and doesn't have the time to do both.

And are YOU a member/staff of AA? Or are you 100% impartial??? :)

 > Jake McFarland  - jake@shakala.com 
 > Shakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA 408-734-2289

No comment.

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