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Dragon*Con 2009 attending artists defied gravity for this year’s charity contributions. Dragon*Con Art Show Directors John and Anne Parise announced the “When Pigs Fly” theme earlier this summer. Paraphrasing the top secret Directors’ missive:
“As everyone knows, the economy has been in better shape and a penny saved is a penny earned. In honor of this, the Charity item is going to be really cute white Piggy Banks.”
But fans also know that anything can happen where dragons take flight, fairies flutter, and cruisers sail at warp speed, just a normal day at Dragon*Con. Wouldn’t it be wise to anchor the winged porcines before the bidding begins? Otherwise, they may demonstrate their anti-gravity abilities: “Porky has left the building.”
Proceeds from the sale of the airborne, but flu-less, swine will benefit the Georgia Chapter of the American Alzheimer’s Association.
The fabulous flying porkers will be exhibited in the Art Show (near its information desk to prevent unathorized take-off), Grand Hall West, and will be auctioned at the 2009 Dragon*Con Art Show Auction, Mon 12PM, Hanover C-E (Art Show Auction-Preview Mon 11:30AM, also at Hanover C-E).
| Amy Herring grew up beneath NASA’s shadow in Rocket City, USA (Huntsville, Alabama). Herring writes genre and mainstream stories and novels with an eye toward a career change from her current law practice (including over a decade protecting the rights to sexual privacy for Alabama citizens). Three of her genre stories have been published under her nom de plume, Louise Herring-Jones: "Colony Earth Redux" in Footprints (Hadley Rille Books, 2009); “Slimed” in Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology (Fandom Press/Windstorm Creative, 2005) and “. . . would smell as sweet” (shorthorror.com, 2006) Although her first print article, "A Georgia Yankee: The Legend of Johnny Mize," appeared nationally in bookstores in the 2010 Maple St. Press Yankees Annual, she hasn’t given up her day job...yet. |
