SWILnews #3 of the Robocalypse Hi everyone! This is Robot here. Sorry about the late SWILnews this week. You see, on Sunday Pirate was in Canada and I was in AD 1500/Lancaster County, and now everyone but me has real work to do, so it's up to me to write up a brief account of what all happened at last week's meeting. Pre-meeting festivities involved accusing [name struck for protection of privacy] of being an asshole, which made him cry. Then we called the meeting to disorder. The meeting was asked what the hell was up with THE HUNT. The notes indicate that somehow connected to this question is the sage advice that "challah" is spelled with two Ls. More to the point, Susan had as of this weekend finished the monster list and is going to mail it Real Soon Now. There was a Hunt Committee meeting after SWILmeeting, which not a whole lot of people went to, because they were all at the Webcomics Symposium (see below). Just for redundancy's sake, the Hunt is still on October 6th. REUNION is also still on that weekend. We're planning a Talent Show on Saturday the 7th at 3pm in Bond (that's the building on the far side of the parking lot beyond Mertz and New Dorm. Look at a map.). If you want to show off for a few minutes, let the presidents know and we'll...do something. SWILMOVIE has already happened, and it was Lilo and Stitch. Stay tuned for next week's movie: same time (Monday, 10p), same place (SCCS video pit). There will be a SATURDAY NIGHT SWIL next week, and it will consist of Parlour Gaming in Parrish Parlours. This was approved by a vote to toy with Jackie's emotions, whatever that meant. If you've never played parlour games before, they're fun, and plus Pirate will be happy to see you, because she likes them. We talked about PHILCON a bit. PhilCon is the annual Philly sci-fi convention, and it is huge and big and full of people and things. SWIL has in the past gotten a hotel room for a combination of sleeping over and stashing stuff, and has classically been fairly cheap per night due mostly to the vast number of people splitting it. Jillian wasn't around to say that she didn't want to be the contact point for organizing it, so email her if you're interested in a share of a room. If you don't know Jillian, you may as well email the presidents for convenience's sake. Charles Stross is the guest of honor, and there was talk of kidnapping him for our own nefarious purposes. It was eventually decided that this was a bad idea, but the notes only record that we're not allowed to kidnap "Charles Ross". Let this be a lesson to those of you with poor spelling: your faults are endangering the well-being of authors everywhere! Round about this time we got word that the panelists from the WEBCOMICS SYMPOSIUM, whom we had invited to lunch but assumed were not coming (it being nearly 12:30), all showed up at once and chaos ensued. Assume continued scattered conversation throughout the rest of meeting. We went to RENFAIRE. You could have come, but now it is too late. The meeting agreed (?) that Scottish Vampire Weekend is better. Since no one voted for an author to bring in connection with Ninja's SCI-FI WRITER'S SERIES, she decided to pick one at random. Thus, our first visiting author will be Jeffrey Ford, assuming he can actually come. Tolkien will be disinterred for the occasion. Herbert is running SWILOWEEN, which will occur on October 27th (in the WRC) so as not to interfere with the Murder Mystery dinner in ML or the campus Halloween party. There is a theme of "abstraction", and anyone who plans on dressing up (all of you) is encouraged to forego costumes representing concrete objects. Anyone who shows up dressed as the Guggenheim will be expelled on sight. Further planning will occur later on. We finally got around to introducing our GUESTS, namely Brad Guigar of Evil, Inc., Eric and Wednesday of websnark.com, and Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary (who left us a series of napkin doodles that will be preserved for posterity in the archives). Susan arrived. Possibly this was more noteworthy at the time, but since the notes don't say anything else I'm going to assume that we were just real glad to see her. We had a LOTTERY, but once again were without a random number generator. The Man On The Street chose the number 9, so Jamison won again. He got a little wind up chicken (and didn't want the Evangelion tape. Weird.). Then there was some NON-SWIL BUSINESS. -There's a CONTRA in Upper Tarble on Friday the 29th at 7:30. If you like to dance and have fun, you should go and bring all your friends. No experience necessary, just show up. -Emmanuelle, Jackie, David C, and Katie were proxied. Meeting was called to order. Then I remembered some stuff, and meeting was RECALLED TO DISORDER. Andrew suggested that we all SUBMIT to BEM. T-SHIRTS for Reunion have been ordered now. If you already ordered one, please pay me (that's Robot) $8 at your convenience. If you forgot to order one but want one, tell me soon. Shirts claimed before they arrive will be $9, and any that sit around my room for weeks and weeks before they get claimed will be $10. (And in case anyone's curious, I do plan on giving any extra cash to the Slush Fund. I'd be curious.) There was some general griping about ordering shirts. We called meeting to order again and everyone went to the Science Center to talk about webcomics for the afternoon. This has been a Robotic production. Enjoy your meal. Attendance list of happy MidAutumn [oh my, i've completely lost the ability to read anyone's handwriting -p] BDan "Ring out the old, bring in the new" Fairchild James "[can't read your handwriting, will assume it says Howard] Lula" Mendez Hodes Venger Jamison "Dahl" Max "A challah-Bacon-shellfish-cheese Sandwich" Tanzer Marissa Rhiannon Kessala Tsumarin Roque David "I'm on time biatch!" Pupkin Elizabeth "my lottery ticket looks morose" Wesson Revan "totally not here" Williams Malcolm "Totally not at a Magic prerelease" Augat [that is so unbelievably geeky if it's true -r] Meggie "Totally not in Arizona" Ladlow Eric "Totally not getting enough sleep" Mulligan Margaret "Totally only pretending to eat" Cosgriff Crazylegs Magee Franklin "Venger" Roosevelt George Dahl, Lord of Moria Jamison "The Great" Purple Penguin Jeff "Breakfast is the only meal Sharples gets right" Kaufman Herbert "My shirt is carebear powered" Tanzer Andrew "With Dragons" Conforti Brown Alex "Hamstorm!" Pshenichkin George Dhal Dahl Dlah Dalh Robert "Sharples doesn't serve cryogens?" McFarland Rebecca "speed demon" McFarland Brad "give the mop to the giant gorilla" Guigon [use rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle on cable -p] Howard "god of the schlockiverse" Tayler Eric "Not cheese" Burns Wednesday "Fulfiling social obligation through tacit, yet nonconsentual, approval of meme" White [i *like* this person -r] Jeff "HeHeHe I started a second page" Kaufman Jeff "I wonder if I'll have this page all to myself" Kaufman Jeff "If everytime I write a sig it takes up an additional line, how many before the book is full?" Kaufman [one boot to the head for each line you use, that's all i'm sayin' -p boot to the head! -r] David "In Soviet Russia, wolf eats you!" Pupkin eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Eric "non-Jewish member of the Eric bloc" Holzhauer Susan "Less hungover than Arthur Chu" Zell Q "Jackie "You forgot to sign in my proxy, peons" Werner" Bear Finlay "in SWILnews, no one can hear you scre--" Logan