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2001-09-24

The pictures from the unaired Buffy-pilot reminded me that I need a new Buffy-fix soon — which will happen as soon as they release the third season on dvd. See. The symptoms have begun already. (Prolific)

The minutes from the Westercon 51 business meeting in -98 is in every possible way a masterpiece.

This committee is the descendant of a committee formed at Westercon 47 (Los Angles, 1994) to study a bylaws amendment to strike out all occurrences of “obligatory” and insert “mandatory.” This amendment has been referred annually since then to a series of committees with different names (”MOO”, “Squeal”, and “Oink”) for further consideration and recommendations. Seth Breidbart, the only member of the current incarnation of this committee, moved that the Committee be continued and that it continue to investigate the matters referred to it.

Ruth Sachter moved to amend the motion to continue the committee by changing the name of the Committee from “Oink Committee” to “Neep Committee.” This passed by a substantial majority.

Pay extra attention to the clause where the possible locations for the con is discussed:

Provided that, upon the annexation of Australia by the United States of America or the annexation of the United States of America by Australia, Section 3.1 shall be amended to read: “Any site in Australia, or on the North American continent west of the 104th west meridian, or in the state of Hawaii, shall be eligible to be the site of a Westercon, except as restricted by the provisions of these bylaws.”

And I support point 4.4 wholeheartedly. When things like this happens, who can not love fandom?