What about Austin? Someone more familiar with it than me should correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that it's a great place, hot but not humid (and thus not like Satan's armpit, so the late May timing wouldn't be a problem), with a manageable number of city-based peri-F2F activities. Also in the south, which is the part of the country to which we haven't been yet.
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
F2F 2: Is there anybody here that hasn't slept together?
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: New Orleans! May 20-22, 2005!
Jen - May 25, 2004 9:05:21 am PDT #3599 of 9999
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Daisy Jane - May 25, 2004 9:05:49 am PDT #3600 of 9999
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Hub or not Dallas is just expensive to fly in and out of. It would have actually been cheaper for me to go back to Louisiana, and fly from there with a stopover in Dallas than to fly straight out of Dallas.
Steph L. - May 25, 2004 9:06:41 am PDT #3601 of 9999
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
"Cincinnati: The Airport is in Kentucky"
Man, that *should* be our slogan. You have NO idea how many people get freaked out by that little geographical oddity.
billytea - May 25, 2004 9:09:59 am PDT #3602 of 9999
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Man, that *should* be our slogan. You have NO idea how many people get freaked out by that little geographical oddity.
I know I did. "I'm in Kentucky. How the hell did that happen?"
Fred Pete - May 25, 2004 9:18:13 am PDT #3603 of 9999
Ann, that's a ferret.
Hub or not Dallas is just expensive to fly in and out of.
That's the problem with a hub. Less competition.
Oh, St. Louis.
Hm. Overall, I think I still prefer NOLA and Minneapolis.
Jessica - May 25, 2004 9:20:00 am PDT #3604 of 9999
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
NOLA is, I think, the clear frontrunner, but I'd prefer Minneapolis because I hear NOLA has big scary bugs. And we don't have any local NOLAistas, and I want to meet Juliana.
Vortex - May 25, 2004 9:20:19 am PDT #3605 of 9999
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Also in the south, which is the part of the country to which we haven't been yet.
well, technically, DC is the the south.
Fred Pete - May 25, 2004 9:22:51 am PDT #3606 of 9999
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'd prefer Minneapolis because I hear NOLA has big scary bugs
It isn't that bad. Only a few of the cockroaches have their own zip codes.
Steph L. - May 25, 2004 9:23:45 am PDT #3607 of 9999
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Cincy has shitty public transportation, though I think in LA we (mostly) carpooled, didn't we? But used public transportation in Chicago and DC.
I live here, and I wouldn't actually recommend it over Cleveland, NOLA, or Minneapolis. However, it wouldn't be bad, but it can stay on the bench for now. ("Cincinnati: Always a Redshirt.")
askye - May 25, 2004 9:28:25 am PDT #3608 of 9999
Thrive to spite them
I like NOLA because it's close and I've always wanted to go there. And of course we won't be freaking out people there. Although somehow I like our inadverent tradition of scaring the locals and other vistors.
I don't think I've seen everybody's pictures. Will there be links in Press to them? Someone (or more than one person) took a picture of me and meara and I would LOVE LOVE to see it. I'm thinking maybe there was more than one picture taken with meara and me, but she has her leg around me in this one.