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The Drink Tank 200 
 
200 issues. That’s not too many.I’ve been doing this for four years.Hard to beleive. In all that time, I’venever really become at all disenchanted with the process. I legitimately love The Drink Tank...even if I treat it assomething along the lines of a room forscraps. I’ve been lucky enough to havesome wonderful writers along the way writing wonderful things in wonderful ways. The past year has been one of the better years of my life. Since thelast Annual Giant Sized Annual, I’vedone my TAFF Trip, gone to more consin a year than any other year in mylife. Made some fantastic new friendsall over the place. I got another pair of Hugo Noms, and even cooler I got topresent one! That’s a real highlight. Ihad a lovely and talented girlfriend theentire year, adn she’s still there withme today! That’s a good one! I also gotto run the WorldCon Fanzine Lounge,the Westercon Fanzine Lounge, theSIlicon Lounge, the LosCon and theBayCon. That’s a godo set. There wasCostumeCon with my getting to MCthe SF/F Masquerade, which I thought was a whole lot of fun.BArea fandom had a very good year, which is looking like it’ll continueon in to 2009 because we’ve got somuch going on. There’s Potlatch at theend of February. It’s a touring con, so you’d think I’d be there, but no, I’ll be working at Cinequest instead. It shouldbe a good con, they’re doing it at theDomain Hotel, which is where Steam-powered was held, and there are somegreat folks running it. I wish I could bethere. The same thought goes for Won-dercon, which is also that weekend.BayCon goes for year 2 at theSanta Clara Hyatt. They’re doing somegreat stuff and I think Chairman Ty-cho has been working his ass off andgetting good stuff. It’s going to be in-teresting to see if the name recogni-tion of Mercedes Lackey works to drawmore people. My guess is not because while she’s a name, she’s not that big aname. Tim Kirk, who is a huge deal tome isn’t as huge to the rest of the fan-nish world.And now, on to the Fourth An-nual Giant Sized Annual!
 Art in this issue-
Cover is by Dann Lopez. Theart with the LoCs is from Ge-nevieve, except for the Pink  Angel, which is by Ann Green,scanned by Christina Lake.Kevin Standlee and Mo havestuff in here, and Beth Zucker-man sent along the photos that ran with her article.Brad W. Foster, that Fan Art-ist of Awesomeness, did tehnew Header!My cousin (I think she might  be my second cousin) ClaireGarcia sent some photos, oneof which was perfect for M and SaBean’s article snippet.Espana sent the 4 Rocket pic- ture. I really like her stuff. Sheshould send more!
 
Fred Moulton is the most unlikely Burner I know. He’s a BASFA regular and a good guy and I’m glad I get the chance to run this  ne little article.
 Worldcon and Burning Man - commonalities and differences Author: Fred C. Moulton
This article will likely annoymany people who say that it is nottotally accurate and over simpliestopic X or even ignores topic Y and the way it handles topic Z is scandalous.And they will be correct. This article isnot totally accurate, it over simplies,it does not cover everything. Theintent of this article to give someminimal background and to quicklyhighlight some similarities anddifferences. So please realize the limitsof this article and before using it as abasis for a decision or analysis pleaseconsult more complete sources.The history of Worldcon (WorldScience Fiction Convention) is longand relatively well documented. Themore than six decades of Worldconsis ne history considering it is put onby volunteer organizations. And letus not forget that we are 2/3 of the way to the Worldcon centenary. Thereare several projects to document thehistory of SF fandom and many of these have information on the web.Since I assume that most readers of this article will be more familiar withWorldcon I will provide a slightly longerbackground about Burning Man.Burning Man has a slightlyshorter history beginning in the mid1980s when Larry Harvey and friendshad a re ceremony at Baker Beach inSan Francisco. The history and growthof Burning Man is documented atBurningman.com and other websitesas well as in videos and various booksincluding the book “This is BurningMan” by Brian Doherty.The authorities came to take adim view of large res on the beachand eventually the event was moved tothe Black Rock desert area in Nevada,northeast of Reno. This area is a largedried lake bed and can be describedas a very at playa. In the summer itbegins to dry out from the snow andrain that has accumulated. It is a highdesert environment and by the end of August the playa is hot during the dayand cold at night particularly when the wind blows. And subject to incredibledust storms that can cause white outs.This is one of the maindifferences between Burning Manand Worldcon; the physical location.Worldcon moves each year to adifferent location; often but not alwaysin North America. As long as BurningMan can keep the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) who controls thearea happy then Burning Man willlikely stay at the playa although itshifts a short ways on the playa each year to avoid environment damage.Currently there are about 50,000
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