ALBACON, www.albacon.org , has its hotel for 2010: Best Western Sovereign Hotel – Albany, 1228 Western Ave., Albany, NY 12203; +1-518-489-2981; http://www.sovereignhotels.com/ .
We hope to have on-line registration up and running real soon now. Y’all come. We give good con! Allen Steele is our Literary Guest of Honor.
For the past couple days I’ve been scanning in papers from the Tolkien conferences I ran in 1969 and 1971: The 1st & 2nd Conferences On Middle-earth. I may add a couple more that I have which are contemporary with them. It is very interesting to go thru these papers which were based solely on The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings.
These are the papers which didn’t make the cut for “A Tolkien Compass” edited by Jared Lobdell.
One idea is to publish them under the title: “A Tolkien Lodestone.” They being sort of not quite ready for accurate directions in Middle-earth.
It might be fun to hold another Conference On Middle-earth for fans of Professor Tolkien, the books, music, art, films, etc. A small get together in the “Green Dragon” for a nosh & a natter.
If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all. -Joey Adams, comedian (1911-1999)
To all the service members past, present, and future: Welcome home and thank you for your service to our wonderful country.
I wonder if this film will be released in the US. It looks interesting.
“Limits on exec pay cause worries of brain drain! Will top bosses at bailed-out companies leave as their compensation is cut?” – MSNBC.com
Maybe the answer should be: Good, get rid of them. All they did was take money and run the companies into the ground. Maybe some new blood will get the companies moving again.
IMHO too many “executives” are vastly overpaid for the work they do. I really don’t believe, they are worth the pay. I remember reading a rumor that JP Morgan, that pillar of support for the common man, feeling that the ratio of 20 to 1 between the top salary and the lowest full time employee’s salary, should be enough. Today, 200 to 1 or higher is more like it.
However, one must realize, these executives are of such a better class of people than ordinary persons that they should be rewarded for just being better than everyone else. Just ask them.
Film director Roman Polanski
, who fled sentencing in California on child sex charges in 1977, after being convicted, should be extradited to the US from Switzerland and do his hard time for drugging and having unlawful sex with a girl aged 13. – So he is a brilliant director. This does not allow him to break the law and get away with it. – He is a sicko!
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. -Robert Orben, magician and author (b. 1927)
Of course, Indians/Native [?] Americans didn’t originate in the “Americas” either. They just happened to arrive sooner.
I guess, if you don’t meet the specs of the far left, you can’t own a baseball club.
I’m NOT a ditto-head. I don’t listen to Rush nor would I go to him for insight.
However, who the hell do they think, they are in saying, I can veto you over your politics none of which are illegal.
If a Jackson or Sharpton were to try and buy a team and were told, their politics made them unsuitable, boy would you hear all the race BS flying.
Let Rush spend his money as he sees fit.
I had a very good time at ALBACON. You should have been there. I did a few panels, mixed with everyone, went to parties, got not enough sleep, the usual.
Next year ALLEN STEELE is the literary GoH. Y’all come on by. We give good con!
What panels do you want to attend there?
