From: jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: WIZARD Re-Visiting Scandinavia?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 13:01:24 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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Keywords: Wizard, Norway, Sweden, Finland, conventions

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magnus@bark-fddi.ii.uib.no (Magnus Alvestad) writes:
>Mike> All Norway was Paradise.  I have to get a job that earns money,
>Mike> and travel there again.  Maybe figure out a way to live there,
>Mike> for at least half the year...  Make a movie in Hollywood, then
>Mike> fly to Norway to recover from it.

>Hmm.. Here in Bergen we have what is called the 'Filmklubben' - they
>show a lot of special interest movies (16x9) - If you take with you a
>nice copy of WOSAT, and promise to hold a lecture here about the
>movie, yourself, your mother, the car etc. etc. - maybe we could pay
>(at least part of) your trip.

>I think the Filmklubb would be able to cough some money, your local fan
>club could (that's me, Ketil, Jon & Kjartan) .. we're not far from a
>one-way ticket then.. :-)

Your _personal_ money?!??  NO WAY!  I do remember the one or two negative
things about Norway - the 50-70% income taxes (even more confiscatory
than the US!).  (BTW, Kelly Freas - WIZARD's poster artist - actually KNEW
the woman who created the first US 1040 income tax form, back in 1913.
And that's Another Story...)  I can't accept private donations.  But...
There's the Hollywood Solution:  OPM (ie - "other peoples' money").

There are several festivals occurring in Scandinavia, around the same
time.  I believe the Norwegian Filmfest is being held in Haugesund (only
a few inches from Bergen, on this map)(about 6cm) - though I heard the
Festival Director, Gunnar Lovvik, is difficult to reach, and is only
interested in *Famous (and expensive) $tars*.  The Norway National Sci-Fi
Con is in Oslo, August 6th (93) - I had a great time in 1991, and met you
guys, and remet Larry Niven (-hey, did Johannes & Heidi & Kjetil ever nab
the con-thief?).  And the Swedish National Sci-Fi Con in Stockholm, is
just a week later, on the 14th.  And Helsinki's National Con on the 13th.
(...mm, the Gulf doesn't look too wide, maybe if I wear the Wiz-shoes,
and run *real fast*...)

Anyway, SAS roundtrip split 3 ways (or more) would be a gentler and
kinder manner of reducing expenses.

>-Magnus (!kibo)
           ^^^^
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