In many ways today has been a good day. First and foremost, I bought a new car!
Also, it snowed - and the snow actually stuck. This is a Very Big Deal in Georgia.
(I’ll have more photos of the car once the snow melts.)
But then there’s also this email that came in just now…
As some of you are well aware, the city has decided we can not change the use of the building without strict criteria for parking.
The business demands over $10,000.00 per month to keep open.
As much as we want to honor our dates, it looks as if we can not afford more losses.
Therefore, it is with great regret that due to the meddling of the neighbor’s association, along with the ridiculous stubbornness of the City to work with us, we can not honor your date in 2008 for your event.I know I made verbal promises to you in the past, but without some drastic concessions from our landlord, I’m afraid there is nothing that we can do to accommodate any event past February.
Translation: Sex 2.0 has lost its venue.
*sigh*
I can’t deal with this right now. Someone else needs to deal with it. I already emailed the Sex 2.0 Google group about this, so hopefully someone(s) will step up soon.
Oh and by the way… the people responsible for Spring4th’s untimely closure? It’s the same assholes mentioned here.
Good job, Midtown. You’ve successfully driven another locally-owned small business out of your neighborhood.
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Um…Yay! And fuuuuuuuuck. Let’s stick with YAY! for the moment.
Dammit Amber. I am so sorry.
This was the last thing I expected to hear.
Surely there’s someone in Atlanta that can pitch in, or knows of an appropiate venue or can pull some strings somewhere.
It will happen. Too many people want it to.
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I hope so. But if there’s any time where I really need to say, unequivocally, “I NEED HELP ON THIS”… this is it. So, local folks (and non-local folks, hell, we are the tech-savvy!) please please please help pull this thing together. This is a community-based thing after all. And this latest news makes me want to throw up my hands. (Not *really*, I mean I wouldn’t give up the whole conference, but - I CANNOT do this alone.)
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