...(I'm turnin', I'm turnin' to stone.) The dancing shadows on the wall (the two steps in...)

Ribbon story part 34. Some plain ribbons with rocket/starburst for laconiv.

• Autograph Staff
• Adventurer's Club Staff
• Chaos Space Pirates Staff
• Kaffeeklatsches Staff
• Program Development
• SF & Media Academic Staff

All of these (and more) were produced for the L.A.con IV Program Division. The Adventurer's Club was the children's program; Chaos Space Pirates was the Young Adults program, for two days anyway: jamesb and Elvis and the others from inter_action's YAFA program came over to add their madness to the weekend.

(...the hall) are all I see since you've been gone (turning turning turning). Through all I sit ...

Ribbon story part 35. Some plain ribbons with rocket/starburst for laconiv.

• Art Show Staff
• Registration
• Green Room Staff
• Masquerade Staff
• Performances Staff
• Space Cadet Game Staff

The L.A.con IV decided, in its inscrutable collective wisdom, that there would be "Committee" ribbons, but no ribbons that said simply "Staff." Almost as soon as this decision was handed down, many departments petitioned their respective division heads for "(Department) Staff" ribbons.

The first ribbons ordered for laconiv (not counting the "Space Cadet" promotional ribbons) were the Art Show Staff ones that Bobbi ordered from me at Conzilla. She picked the pastel rainbow ribbon, with red printing. Not long after that, Elayne put me in charge of all of the sub-100 ribbon orders, plus a handful of the hundreds too.

Registration ordered their own ribbons. And the Program Division ordered a whole slew of "XYZ Staff" ribbons for their departments. (See also previous post.) Program Division had at least 10 different "XYZ Staff" titles for their division, including Green Room Staff, Masquerade Staff, Performances Staff and Space Cadet Game Staff, plus many others that didn't use the word "staff."

I'm kind of surprised that they followed through with the "no STAFF ribbons" rule, actually. I would suggest that future conventions (esp. Worldcons) might take a note of what happened here...

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... here and I wait. (I turn to stone, I turn to stone.) You will return again some day ...

Ribbon story part 36. Some more ribbons, mostly ordered in time for laconiv.

• Fannishly Correct
• Panlogos
• Hall Singer
• Cool Hat Club
• Ear Club for Fen
• Skull Squad

( While most people who ordered ribbons in time for the Worldcon ordered just one or two titles, a handful of people were sparking off ideas left and right. )

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... to my blue world. I turn to stone when you are gone, I turn to stone. Okay that's enough of that

Ribbon story part 37. Some more plain ribbons, ordered in time for laconiv.

• FABU!
• Sign!
• I smell a Euchre!
• Right Bower
• Left Bower
• Nine Offsuit

Dave McCarty, of the Chicago in 2008 Worldcon Bid, ordered a number of ribbons. Some of them were for the bid, others were in-jokes for midwestern fandom. I think. I really don't know what FABU! and Sign! mean, actually. For FABU!, I had RV Awards use their big block letters. All the other ribbons listed here were printed using the usual upper-lower roman.

Helen Montgomery (Dave's honey) ordered I smell a Euchre! ribbons. And Erik V. Olson wanted Right Bower, Left Bower, and Nine Offsuit, which are all euchre references. Euchre is a popular card game played at Chicago conventions such as Windycon and Capricon.

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