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So I just got home from traveling out to Maryland to visit my sister and her family for the Easter weekend. We got in the truck and drove the almost exactly one thousand miles to her home in Rockville, MD. It's the second time we've done this, and we genuinely spend twice as much time traveling as we do actually spending time with family.
I genuinely love a good road trip, and the journey, which crosses through Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, is deeply satisfying. Almost exactly in the middle, of course, is Pokagon State Park in Indiana.
Searching through my blog, somehow I've never mentioned Pokagon by name here, though it has come up. We first went there almost ten years ago for our fifth wedding anniversary, and we fell in love with the place. Indiana has a historic inn system in its state parks, and Pokagon sits on a beautiful lake. I know Crysta doesn't enjoy the traveling as much as I do, so I think visiting Pokagon is the only reason she hasn't demanded we switch to flying out to Maryland when we make the trip.
I love the journey though, I really do. And I love seeing my family so much. It's easy to feel isolated from them when we're often so far away. It's been an amazing six days. Besides my sister, her husband, and my two niblings, my parents, my brother and his long time girlfriend were also there. We won't be together again until this summer, and that won't come fast enough.
That said, it feels so amazing to be sitting in my own chair in my own home again right now. One of the best parts of a long trip like this is feeling yourself relax when your travels are over. Of course, we don't get to relax for long with a con this weekend -- but I'm going to take it where I can get it.
The world never stops.
This Saturday, April 26th, I'm going to be at Concinnity in Milwaukee, WI! Stop on by and say hi if you're in town!
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Oh man it is going to get out to the artist.
Really, the Nazi thing may have been the catalyst, but it’s not the reason.
The reason is because Unagi’s con chair is/was running an anti-Bork Con FB group.
True, but that’s where it started. But I do hope someone screenshotted that FB group.
Lynn stated that she took screenshots a few pages back (it’s the one right before these two driving through the snow or the one after it). And even if she hadn’t, there is definitely someone else out there who took screenshots. Internet drama tends to attract a lot of people in that respective community.
Technically Sarah has told a lie with the truth because what she said makes Jim out as a Nazi sympathizer as well as making it sound like Bork con reacting to that. This will hit the rumor mill in seconds flat. OTOH…
a) Nothing Sarah said is inaccurate, Jim did say the nazi (Terrence) was allowed to stay a
b) This might actually be how Sarah remembers things.
c) The gloves have long since come off. I both appreciate the deft use of a stiletto and tsk a bit at the underhanded strike.
Where’s the lie though?
Everything she said was the truth.
To be fair, Jim sided with the Nazi twice. Once at the con, and again with the FB group.
Two thoughts and a possible conclusion plus bonus rambling.
1) Jim is lacking con staff and resources.
2) Jim and Terrance are already working together, at least in a common bond of disliking BorkCon at its staff.
Conclusion: Terrance will be added by Jim to Unagi Con’s staff.
Ramble: It’s been mentioned that Jim has been running his con for something like a decade, and events are showing he’s perfectly willing to set up perceived “enemies” to engineer a situation back to his favor (if Bork Con folds, Garner would presumibly be free to re-join Unagi Con’s staff and it’s gear might be available for dirt cheap) and to deal out retribution. My assumption here is that this is not a pattern that developed recently. The story is still being told here, but will other former con-staffers who’ve worked with and have been burned by Jim speak up on seeing the Bork Con “drama” rising?