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Everyone does realize that the stories on page one are attempts at April Fool's humor? One reviewer commented, "Winnipeg can't hold a Worldcon in 2001, it's not in the Eastern North American region." It's all my fault—so complain to me, care of the Bucconeer postal address or pre.con.pubs@bucconeer.worldcon.org.

Bad news—this may be my last opportunity to editorialize you. The final Broadside will be delivered by first class mail. So it has to be kept short—just a dull bunch of schedules, hours of operation, locations, maps, and directions. No room for nonessential items—okay, we'll try to squeeze in another cartoon from Teddy Harvia.

So, this is what being sucked into a black hole feels like—less than four months until Bucconeer. Well..., speaking for myself, I only have one progress report and one Broadside left to finish—then I get to retire.

Who knew Michael Whelan was also a cartoonist? I've gotten many comments on his "Crab Feast" cartoon in the last Broadside. (It's the only thing my daughter recalls from that issue—Sigh.) There's been some talk of placing it on a crab bib for the Bucconeer Crab Feast. Wait until you see the souvenir t-shirt artwork he created!

Let me know what you would like to see in our remaining pre-con publications. I need time to work on some of our committee members to extract information. They keep saying, "Schedules! We're pirates, not bloody project managers! You never saw Errol Flynn swashbuckling with a bleeding Gantt chart!" (They're so cute when they try to use those fake British accents.)