[penguicon-general] Food track

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:42 pm, Matt Arnold wrote:
> On 12/10/06, Tracy Worcester <tracy.worcester at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/10/06, Lissa <qibhom at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> >
> > Once I'm out of school, that's quite likely.  Though I must admit, my 
crush
> > on the Food Channel is really Alton Brown.  (:
> >
> > I have no idea how we'd go about getting him, or whether we could get him
> > for free, but I think Alton Brown, self-confessed food geek, would make an
> > excellent PenguiCon guest.
> >
> > ...Tracy
> 
> Everyone I've talked to about Alton has agreed with that assessment.
> Unfortunately, as it turned out, he absolutely never, ever talks to
> anyone or does anything in an official capacity except through his
> talent agent. And you know how talent agents are.

We'd have a similar problem wtih Weird Al.  He gets paid a lot to sing so if 
we invite him to Penguicon, it wouldn't be fair to ask him to sing.

That said, I could imagine lots of panels to put Al on that don't involve 
singing.  (Have him, CmdrTaco, and Steve Jackson on a panel: "Creating your 
own day job.")

Of course, there are a number of our guests we could put on that panel... :)

> -Matt

Rob
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