Midwest FurFest announces Guests of Honor, theme for 2006
Midwest FurFest
Hyatt Regency Woodfield
Schaumburg, Illinois
November 17 – 19, 2006
Midwest FurFest is happy to announce that the theme for MFF 2006 will be: Midwest FurFest County Fair!
We are also proud to announce our Guests of Honor for 2006:
We are pleased to welcome the talented artist Heather “Kyoht” Luterman. Kyoht’s work has been featured by Australia’s National Dinosaur Museum, and Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher of children’s books and media. You can see more of Kyoht’s work at her website, http://www.kyoht.com
We also welcome Whitefox (aka Whitey Fawks), noted costumer and co-owner of Arend Studios (http://www.arendstudios.com). You can find examples of Whitefox’s work at any furry convention, and he has created numerous retail, nonprofit, and sports mascots.
Finally, we are happy to be joined by Jen Seng (aka Spunky). Jen is a talented artist and cartoonist whose work has been featured by Sofa Wolf Press, among others. Her work can be found at http://www.toonapalooza.net
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County Fair! Gosh, I’ve been ahead of the time with my bib overalls and everything?
I’m just trying to figure out how we’re going to get the hotel to sell deep-fried Twinkies…
Eeeyuck. What travesty of a county fair did you find those at? ;P
Most recently? The North Carolina State Fair. But I hear they’re really taking off all over the country, along with Deep-Fried Snickers and Deep-Fried Oreos.
Mind you I didn’t say they were good. Because I was curious, I tried the deep-fried Snickers. It was about as exciting as melting a Snickers in a microwave then eating it. Bleah.
Junk food made out of junk food. Eeew.
I suppose you could offer corn dogs. Those are a long standing tradition at county fairs, though I dunno why people eat them.
Soft pretzels?
Elephant ears?
Lemon shakeup? (way too much sugar) Or maybe just pink lemonade and cotton candy.
Around here, freshly made cream puffs are a feature worth sampling, but that sure isn’t going to be practical.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, corn dogs! [/homer voice]
Heh. You can have my share. Though I like the county fair idea. 🙂
That’s going to be an interesting theme to try to write for…
Well, hopefully it will bring new, interesting and creative ideas to mind.
The process to get to “County Fair” was pretty amusing, actually. I tend to take the pessimist approach: “How can a theme be twisted to make it utterly, horribly wrong?” One of the original ideas suggested was “Circuses” whch immediately brough to mind: CLOWNS Or, even worse, FURSUITS WITH CLOWN MAKEUP. This was, of course, too horrible to contemplate, so it was back to the drawing board.
Even with “County Fair” there’s still ways the theme could take unexpected and unpleasant detours. Livestock competitions? Sideshows? Oh dear…
The 4H meat auction. [shudder]
Midway rides? The demolition derby [I never have understood that one.]
Country and Western singers.
Horse show. [yay!]
Pony rides.
Cotton candy [icky-sticky]
Skunk races. Greased pig chases. More politicians than you can shake a… stick… at.
Oh, I can think of things. I just set myself a challenge this year to write and submit stories to three convention books, over and above my usual writing. But I didn’t stop there–they have to be different stories for each con, they have to be within the theme, and they have to be set in the Tai-Pan universe.
😛
The simple out is to have some crew members of one of the starships visiting a fair while dirtside. But now I need a plot. 😛