We have done a fake track at FOGcon. We're the ones who ran three program items during the time-change hour in March (the hour that doesn't really exist).
As con chair, I was adamant that the program items be absolutely ridiculous, and in non-existent locations, so that no one could possibly be confused. I think one item was, "The currently-dead Fritz Leiber reads from his brand-new work, written postmortem." Another was, "Ann VanderMeer tells you the six magic words that will automatically get you published in any magazine you want." All items were scheduled in clearly non-real places; I forget what they were, but I remember insisting the programming-writer change some places so no one could be confused.
It helped that these were all listed on the same page, and set off as "special time-change programming" (or something like that) so there were no problems at all, and everyone appreciated the joke.
I'm horrified by the con chair's response to Karen's concerns. :(
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Date: 2012-09-06 04:50 pm (UTC)As con chair, I was adamant that the program items be absolutely ridiculous, and in non-existent locations, so that no one could possibly be confused. I think one item was, "The currently-dead Fritz Leiber reads from his brand-new work, written postmortem." Another was, "Ann VanderMeer tells you the six magic words that will automatically get you published in any magazine you want." All items were scheduled in clearly non-real places; I forget what they were, but I remember insisting the programming-writer change some places so no one could be confused.
It helped that these were all listed on the same page, and set off as "special time-change programming" (or something like that) so there were no problems at all, and everyone appreciated the joke.
I'm horrified by the con chair's response to Karen's concerns. :(
--Vylar Kaftan, FOGcon chair