The Corflu Fifty declares Curt Phillips a winner

[randy_byers]

Rich Coad has announced that Curt Phillips is the winner of the Corflu Fifty fan fund this year and will be attending Corflu Zed in Seattle. Curt is a longtime fan from Abingdon, Virginia. He has pubbed his ish, written for lots of fanzines, and OE'd the apas Myriad and PEAPS. He runs the PulpMags and Southern Fandom Classic Yahoo!Groups, and he's an active participant in other groups as well and an all around force for good in fandom. He doesn't make it to many conventions on the West Coast, so this will be a great chance for a lot of us to finally meet him.

The Corflu Fifty is a group of fans who have agreed to donate $25 each year to send a person chosen by consensus within the group to that year's Corflu. Last year the fund supported Steve and Elaine Stiles' trip to Corflu Silver in Las Vegas. There are currently 25 people in the group, but as the name implies, we'd like to get it up to 50. If you're interested in joining, please contact Rich Coad at richcoad at comcast dot net.

Comments

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Good for Curt; he's a real nice guy.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

But do you think he's shorter in real life than he is in fanzines?

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Since I've never met Curt, difficult to say.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Well, you should come to Corflu and find out.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

In time, who can tell? I'll need a job first.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

chosen by consensus

Curious how this works. Ain't much sign of consensu in fandom usually so one wonders if it means Ted White Picks.... if it's a small enough group of eligibles, why not just do it by lot?

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what will happen if we ever have a decision where factions are at loggerheads. I guess we'll find out when it does.

[bort43.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed by the selections made by the Corflu Fifty.

Who are the Corflu Fifty? I gather there's Rich Coad and you. Who else?

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

That's a durned good question. I'm not sure whether people are sensitive about being identified as members of the group or not. Don't know why anybody would be, but I should probably ask before answering your question.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Well, of course asking whether people mind being mentioned or not leads to rather meandering results, but here are a few people who have said they don't mind being named as members of the group: Claire Brialey, Frank Lunney, Robert Lichtman, Arnie and Joyce Katz, John D. Berry, Teresa Cochran, and Sandra Bond. Someone else -- an expat Brit -- said he preferred to be listed as Lilian Edwards.

It's a pretty good mix of Americans and Brits, and Bruce Gillespie just announced that he was going to donate some money, although I'm not sure whether he's going to join the group as well. The concept of the Corflu Fifty came up in the wake of the Bring Bruce Bayside and Get Harry fund-raising efforts.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

ps btw I just got asnother invite (ye gods!) to US for March 27 so chances of making C Zed go up if I can find some productive way of filling intervening week-and-a-bit..

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Productive? Like lounging on the beach drinking cocktails kind of productive?

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

pretty much, yeh:-)

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Well, all I know is that after Corflu my parents are hauling the family off to a resort in either Oaxaca or the Dominican Republic for spring break. Should be a good way for the broken chair to repair himself!