<VV> Buffalo's legacy

[Ken Pepke]

Well John, you have certainly thrown the spotlight on the elephant in the room ... :-))

Ken P
Wyandotte, MI
Worry looks around; Sorry looks back, Faith looks up.

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> From: "John Kepler" <jekepler at amplex.net>
> Date: July 9, 2011 7:11:35 AM EDT
> To: <Wrsssatty at aol.com>, <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Buffalo's legacy
> 
> 
> Not to PO the moderators with another "bothersome" convention comment, but I
> think the folks that did the Buffalo Convention were far more sinned against
> than sinning.  I have some advantages/disadvantages in this regard over many
> of you....I know Buffalo, and as soon as I saw where the Convention was
> being held, I knew it was going to have a VERY high "Charlie-Foxtrot"
> potential, and planned accordingly (I wouldn't stay at the Adam's Mark on
> the Firm's expense account, and certainly would NOT on my own nickel!).
> What's more, the Convention organizers knew it was going to be a problem as
> well, and tried mightily to work around the limitations that the CORSA
> selection criteria sorta forced on them. The CORSA site selection criteria
> and the "rigidity" thereof is going to mean that some locales are going to
> "fit" better and require less "finessing" than others...Buffalo was a tough
> fit based on CORSA's intransigence...and in my own never humble opinion, a
> little more flexibility by CORSA would have made for a MUCH better outcome,
> but that and a buck will get you a cheap cup of coffee.  Buffalo is also a
> "tough town" to do ANY business in (which is one reason so little of it is
> left!), a fact I'm VERY well acquainted with, "Up close and personal!", and
> Downtown is best typified by the term, "You can't get there from here!".  If
> you have NO idea what the group, all of them volunteers, had to do, the
> problems that they DID overcome very adroitly to get the event off the
> ground in the first place, then you can continue to carp and get your boxers
> in a bunch about what is basically trivia...like dead yeast in a good beer!
> Given the inherent problems with the set-up going in.....the folks in
> Buffalo did a commendable job.  I know I enjoyed myself...so did my son.
> 
> JEK