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Date Posted: 00:08:51 11/05/01 Mon
Author: wormie
Subject: Re: More comments & questions (are you getting sick of me yet?)
In reply to: Karen 's message, "Re: Old question about awards.." on 10:49:59 10/31/01 Wed

First: I checked out the site-- looking good, Karen!!

I noticed that there was an award for best classic movie [15 years or older]...two things:

1. Now, I'm kinda dense, so I saw this as confusing sorta...I mean, a movie from fourteen years ago today will be "eligible" next year...is this what you had in mind? Or maybe pre-dating a specific year [classic=made before 1986?]; also, when I think of 'classic' sci-fi/horror movies I think of old-school, Golden age, mostly B-movie movies... I'm not 100% sure this is an "accepted" definition of 'classic' ...I know it clearly says "15 years or older" but I thought I'd mention it...shrug...

2. I didn't see anything for best 'classic' book/novel (I admit I wasn't looking that carefully so sorry if it's there.); I don't think we can ignore 'classics' from the Golden age of Sci-fi and other "old" fantasy/horror ficition because they defined the genres(Asimov short stories, Bester, Tolkien, Poe, etc.etc.). Just a fleeting thought...

>After the first message, I realized you were right ~
>doing this more than once a year could get a little
>crazy, so I did actually change the awards page to
>reflect that. :)

maybe not too crazy...it IS a lot of stuff; you might think of splitting it up: you know, say, books & movies at one time of year, and tv at some other time of year...shrug...only way to really figure it out is to do it, right? =)

> I do want to have a genre fan-con next
>year, so maybe the awards could be combined with that
>~ it's definitely something to discuss. Of necessity
>the whole thing is going to have to start out kind of
>small, but I'm doing research now into how to run a
>fan con. I'm gonna need help everyone, so be warned!

Cool.

>I'll probably be putting a regular Help Wanted page at
>the site soon, since I want this to be a great
>organization. More heads thinking would be a good
>thing. :)

oh, well, you want *thinking* heads...I don't know how much use *I'll* be, then...

=)
wormie

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Re: More comments & questions (are you getting sick of me yet?) -- Karen, 19:05:14 11/07/01 Wed
- Re: More comments & questions (are you getting sick of me yet?) -- ME, 11:29:12 11/02/02 Sat