On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:06:39 -0400, Amy Guskin
 wrote:

>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:13:50 -0400, Charlie E. wrote
>(in article ):
>
>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:32:56 -0400, Amy Guskin
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:30:01 -0400, Charlie E. wrote
>>> (in article ):
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I only have a Sunday membership this year.  All I could
afford at the
>>>> time.  I will go down on Saturday, and give blood at the
blood drive,
>>>> and stay overnight so I can get there first thing on
Sunday, so I will
>>>> miss all the JMS events.  Looks like the panels I will be looking
>>>> forward to are Castle and Glee...<<
>>> 
>>> Neither of which are within the genre.  Hrm, what's next -- wrestling?  
>>> (Dragon*Con already has that covered.)
>>> 
>>> Amy
>> 
>> Ah, but some of us have interests (and significant others!) OUTSIDE
>> the genre... ;-)  <<
>
>I'm not minimizing or ignoring that spouses sometimes aren't interested in 
>sf/f.  I'm commenting on the fact that ComicCon is a comics/sf/f kind of 
>event, and it always seems strange to me when cons bring in media guests who 
>are not even somewhat related to that world.
>
>Amy

I understand, Amy.  But in a way, I think Comic-Con has grown to be a
lot more than just comics, sf, and f to being more of a New!
Different! kind of place.  Hence, we see Glee, which is certainly
different ( and, probably qualifies as Fantasy, if you get right down
to it!  8-) )

Charlie
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