The Hotel Lobby option strikes me as problematic, for the reason you mentioned and because if we draw any sort of crowd we're likely to get traffic complaints and get booted.

I don't know what parties are scheduled, but if there's a friendly venue in that area it might work best. Hopefully the program will be posted soon . . .

In other news, I'm looking at the guest-list-thus-far and I'm seeing a lot of people I'd like to buy drinks for. Or hand free drinks to. Or drink to. Drinky?

Okay, fine no lobby. But we would have totally carded for the beer. I'm a writer, not a lawbreaker. Those 20-year-old kids don't know nothin' about drinkin'.

What about that bar in the hotel? and then retire for beer afterwards? and as for the room option, i mean, isn't the whole hotel full of world fantasy kids? so if we did it at, like, 8, everyone would still be up and partying, no?

There's always the second floor space -- which has some open bits but no guest rooms. Time it right... (and I've never had a drink plucked from my hand there.)

(And now I'll go back to not giving up hope that we really will make it after all.)

What about the con suite? There are certainly disadvantages to that approach, but it might be viable.

I vote for a series of guerilla readings, each one a hijack of a programming item that offends me personally.

Any public space, you might have problems if you start handing out beer, so maybe you might as well just deal with them if they crop up and shoot for the places that seem like the most fun and most likely to have people around to attract.

(Actually...how 'bout the dealer's room?)

Meghan and I, and possibly some other folks, aren’t going to have actual con memberships, so controlled spaces like the dealers’ room and the con suite are probably out.

But maybe if MOST of the people involved had con memberships, we could kind of slip by? I mean, if we're up there introducing people and reading, no one is gonna be like, "excuse me, where is your badge?" and if they do, well, we can say "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"

Boy, it feels good to get that out of my system.

Really, I think our best bet is snagging a party room that isn't being used. Or doing it in a hotel room.

I think you’re right. Hannah? How do you and Sarah feel about having your room commandeered?

I think a hotel room is a good idea. We need to make sure it's not in the Governor's Club, though, to guarantee access.

For chrissake, it's a guerilla reading, just hold it anywhere you want and let what may come to anyone who tries to stop you!!!!

I'll watch. From, you know, nearby.

Dave — For sure. (By the way, who’s staying in the GC and who isn’t? How many people am I going to have to try to sneak into the bar?)

Greg — I was kind of hoping you could be the bouncer. Maybe wear that kung fu outfit I got you. You’ve already got the sunglasses.

I'd be totally cool with donating our room--but it is, I think, on a Gov's Club floor.

I'm not actually sure that's a problem, though. They check names going in for drinks/dinner, but not just to get onto the floor. You'd just need somebody on the stairwell to hold the door until everybody's up. If it's in a hotel room, you're not likely to have people just happening by--you'd have to spread the word ahead of time, anyway.

Which is the long version of saying, let me know if you wanna use the room and I'll check with Sarah (unless she sees this first).