[penguicon-general] Benoit Mandelbrot Has A Posse

[Molly de Blanc]

I'm still pushing him for '08! I'll do work for it!

On 4/28/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/27/07, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 27 April 2007 2:33 pm, Matt Arnold wrote:
> > > For that matter, the usage of the word "filk" at all tends to create
> > > schisms, in my opinion.
> >
> > I've been going to cons since 1984, and literally the only source of
> this
> > particularl objection I've ever encountered was Blasted Bill.  (The
> ripples
> > sometimes spread a bit far, but it hasn't been hard to find the center.)
>
> Without putting words in my buddy's mouth, I would say he's a little
> defensive against what he perceives as exclusionary. But there's no
> question the exclusionary tendency is there in the "filk-only" track
> of some conventions.
>
> > Is he the guy who performed at ConFluence in Pittsburgh last year, with
> Ookla
> > the Mok?
> >
> > If so, he was really, really good.
>
> That's the guy. I'm normally good at getting guests, but when him and
> John "hi, I'm a PC" Hodgman took their tour to Ann Arbor and me and
> Scott Kennedy went to see him, I got shy for the first time and didn't
> know what to say. "You perform to big crowds for money almost every
> week, but I'd like you to interrupt that to come to my convention and
> perform for free and the 2007 GoH slate is full so you have to pay
> your own way" seemed inappropriate. At that time, I had no idea he
> attended "filk" fests. It was a missed opportunity.
>
> -Matt
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-- 
Faithfully yours,

molly.
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