Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

Kevin, usually you're a pretty sensible guy, but this is too funny for words. Why should I, just an ordinary member, try to get a message through to the chairman if you, a committee member, are helpless? (Besides, the con isn't answering its e-mail: I already told you that.)

I'm astonished that the rest of you weren't yelling and screaming about this months ago. Lock the chairman in the closet until he gives you the keys to the website! Set up a website of your own and get westercon.org to link to it! Hijack the Registrar until you get a mailing list and send out on your own the initial PR that officially informs the members that the date and hotel have been changed! (This still hasn't been announced: I only found out about it because someone told me; and not all the members are as plugged in as I.) Do SOMETHING!

Believe me, all I'd have needed to have seen on the website was the current membership rates and a committee list that included "Kathryn Daugherty, Programming; Kevin Standlee, Publications", and to have gotten in the mail just a postcard announcing the changes, and I'd be a lot less worried.

As it is, I will keep expressing my doubts that this convention actually exists until it evinces some actual evidence of existence.