South East Wisconsin
POSTED BY: Ianing
UPDATED: Thursday, February 26, 2004 01:43
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Originally posted by Ianing:
I was looking around for any fan activity around here and I saw I just missed a shindig in January at the safehouse in Milwaukee. Did anyone got to that? Are there anymore planned?
Yep, I went to that one. We (The Chicagoland Browncoats) have been finding an excuse to get together once every 1 to 2 months.
We've had get togethers at:
Last Year's Capricon Fantasy Con in Arlington Heights, IL
A restaurant named Firefly in Chicago
The Ravinia Music festival north of Chicago
The Renn Faire in South-East WI.
This year's Capricon
A viewing party at someone's home in a Chicago suburb.
Apple Picking and lunch at Apple Holler in South East WI.
For a current list of what we're up to visit the forum at: http://www.vampirefan.com/
Hope this helps.
-Dave
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SerenitiyValley, By any chance are you the fabulous TheStormCellar from the Caritas boards???
Actually no, but good guess.
http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm
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Originally posted by SerenityValley:
I'm in MADISON.
Don't know if you're aware of this yet, but there is a Sci-Fi Convention called Oddessy Con happening April 2-4, 2004 at the:
Radisson Inn
517 Grand Canyon Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53719
Last year, the organizer for this con was impressed by the presence that the Chicagoland Browncoats brought to Capricon and asked if we could do something for this con. Unfortunately, we weren't able to support that event. If any of you have an interest in helping to spread the word of Firefly, contact Jerome Van Epps through his con website: www.oddcon.org .
I would be willing to make stuff someone could distribute at the con to help promote Firefly, but I personally don't have the time or money to go myself.
-Dave
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I'd be interested, but I don't know how I would be able to. At least not be myself. So what, this is just going to be these three guys? Joe Haldeman, David Weber and Eric Larson?
http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm
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Originally posted by SerenityValley:
I'd be interested, but I don't know how I would be able to. At least not be myself. So what, this is just going to be these three guys? Joe Haldeman, David Weber and Eric Larson?
Those 3 guys only represent a small portion of the overall con. If you check out programming, it lists all the tentative events and panels.
If you should happen to attend just out of curiosity, make sure attend the Luke Sienkowski performance. (You can check out his web site at www.lukeski.com ) He's promised to do a Firefly song eventually. His Buffy song is absolutely hilarious. Like Wierd Al he does parodies of existing tunes. However, his lyrics tend to lean toward sci-fi/fantasy. His tribute to Bender of Futurama is also hilarious. He's also done a song about Angel.
I think OddCon is mostly panels. A panel being a small group of people considering themselves to be knowledgable on a particular topic. They then field questions and direct discussions based on their chosen topic. Capricon, on the other hand, had their con events happening on the lower level and a group of suites reserved for partying. At Capricon, the Chicagoland Browncoats pitched in to reserve a Party Suite where we showed episodes during the daytime hours and threw a party during the evening (and early morning hours). For more details of what we did, check out the "capricon - jan '04" thread at: http://www.vampirefan.com/forum/index.php .
-Dave
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Holy cow! And here I thought I was the only Wisconsin Browncoat! Im from Watertown, but I go to school in Milwaukee. I wish I would have known about the safehouse shindig, seeing as how im only a few blocks away from it. I think we should definatly start a Wi Browncoat group.
keep flyin
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Originally posted by Stizo:
Holy cow! And here I thought I was the only Wisconsin Browncoat! Im from Watertown, but I go to school in Milwaukee.
What a coincidence...
I grew up in Watertown, WI and then I attended the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
-Dave
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Originally posted by suinegagpf:
What a coincidence...
I grew up in Watertown, WI and then I attended the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
That's one hell of a coincidence...
I'm at MSOE right now.
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In case you're curious, I graduated from MSOE in 1996 with a BSEE.
Back when the "Save Firefly" postcard campaign started I tried to contact MSOE's scifi club, but didn't get a response. Since you're currently on campus, do you have a feel for how many Firefly fans exist at MSOE? Right now, the main push is to spread the word of Firefly and to encourage people to vote with their discretionary income by purchasing the DVD set. Firefly is currently holding its own on Amazon.com's Top Selling DVD List. It'd be nice to keep it there as long as possible to demonstrate the ongoing demand for Firefly.
-Dave
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