Wizard Visiting NORWESCON!
 The Wizard returns to the Emerald City
 Wizard, Jittlov, Convention, Personal Appearance


                @:  Hear Ye!  Hear Ye!  :@

         PERSONAL APPEARANCE by USENET PERSONALITY
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Due to a last minute decision by Sue Bartroff and the NorWesCon
 Committee [ie - the Real GoH from L.A. moved, and they had an
 extra plane ticket], Yours Truly has been just been chosen as:

          (:*  SPECIAL MYSTERY GUEST OF HONOR  *:)
                            at
                       NORWESCON 16


In Sue-B's own words, I am "The Big Bang" that they are opening
 the convention with!  [Keep those mirrors out of sight, people!]
 For on Thursday, March 25th, 1993, at 1:00pm PST, I shall be the
 very first attraction for the science-fiction convention's 3,500
 attendees, many of whom may actually be out of the Registration
 Line and seated for my presentation.

I will show, via the miracle of VHS (unless someone can find and
 rig up a laserdisk player) the full WIZARD feature, plus some of
 my out-takes from GHOST, and (if anyone's still conscious) the
 chucklesome "coincidences" between THE FLASH television pilot
 (1990) and our feature film (produced years previously). ;> ;> ;>

Join us, won't you, and stare in stark, nerve-wrenching tension
 as a Hollywood filmmaker tries to explain the inexplicable, and
 still speak coherently without a script, editor, or net.

They've also threatened to make me a Judge for the Saturday Night
 Masquerade Contest.  (Gads...I still remember the Atlanta Fantasy
 Faire - where practically every costume deserved a prize,
 especially the three fantastic dragons, each vying for the same
 catagory.  We wanted to award all of them, it really wasn't fair to
 choose only one.  Afterwards, major heartbreak, the winning
 dragon-team was awarded on a Professional Level instead of
 Journeyman, so they couldn't compete again, or something.  I don't
 understand it.  I thought these gatherings were supposed to be a
 refuge from "reality".)

(Hark, just heard from Sue - prizes abound, and every entry wins at
 least an Official Certificate, guaranteed!)

There's a chance I'll have a few free hours to tour Seattle and
 environs, before I am pulled back down to the pits of Los Angeles.
 Sue and Janny have graciously offered to treat me to a visit at
 Archie McPhee's, "a famous house of the weird and bizarre" (sounds
 just like home).  Your travel tips are most welcome.  Because I
 might just move up here, if my Norway/Sweden/Finland trip doesn't
 happen.  (Can't get much greener :)

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NORWESCON 16 Convention Details (c/o Filthy Pierre's SF Register)

When: Thursday, March 25th, to Sunday, March 28th (1993)
 Where:  Red Lion Hotel, 300 1112th Ave SE, Bellevue (20 min from
      Seattle), Washington (State), 98004, (206) 455-1300
      (believe it's sold out - nearby Hilton is 800-235-4458, plus
      three other hotels down the block)
 How much:  at the door, $40 for 4 days (under 13 & with adult, $0)
 Whom:  contact Susan J. Bartroff at (206) 782-6842
 Why:  because it's an amazing collection of humanity and dreams
      and fun, and you get to meet each other and especially see

      Betty Ballantine (GoH)
      Janny Wurts (Art GoH)
      Chris Jonientz-Trisler (Science Goh)
      Anne McCaffrey (Special GoH)
      Jane Hawkins (Fan GoH)
      Teresa Janssen (Volunteer GoH)
      Bonnie Baker (Toastmistress)

[...Hey!  I'm the only _guy_ GoH..!  Wow.... 8)  Life is good.]

PLUS panels, workshops, and autograph sessions by hundreds of other
 authors, artists, designers, and terminal creative types; a Global
 Warming Seminar for you frozen East Coasters (with the acclaimed
 scientists who wrote the book on the subject); Michael Scanlon's
 Writers' Workshop; Sue-B's own KidKon; four (count'em) dances (one
 per night) with people you may never encounter in the mundane
 world; the Philip K. Dick Awards Banquet "celebrating the hatching of
Ramoth's latest clutch on the Planet Pern" [yum]; and MORE.

Not your everyday neighborhood block party.

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  Mike Jittlov - Wizard, etc        .   . +  * .o   o.* `.`. +.
   Hollywood, CA 90026-2714        '   *  . ' ' |\^/|  `. * .  *
 jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu   (: May All Your  \V/  Good Dreams
   <& alt.fan.mike-jittlov>     and Fine Wishes  /_\  Come True:)
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(I'm also toting up a few dozen of the archival Kelly Freas
 WIZARD Posters.  Bring your own storage tubes, and $ave!)