<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">Hello! I said that when I got back from MFM that I would be sending out my con report, so here it is :-)  As before with my Anthrocon report, I apologize if anyone takes this to be a "here's what you missed, loser" type message as opposed to what I intend for it to me, that is, a "wish you were here!" type message :-) FRIDAY Unlike going to AC, no problems finding the hotel this time :-)  It was almost easier finding the hotel than it was driving around the parking lot trying to find the front door of the hotel :-) As some of you already know, MFM is in a new hotel this year, having outgrown the old hotel.  I think the organizers made a good choice.  Large hotel with plenty of room to grow, right off the interstate, right next to the airport and the hotel's restaurant had breakfast, lunch and dinner menus at reasonable prices.  Also, unlike AC's hotel which had only 3 out of four elevators working, this hotel has 5 elevators and they all work :-)  Makes it a LOT easier to move between floors :-) You all know how Borg ships are cubical in shape, right?  the con's two bulliten boards have a 4 sided cubical shape.  So they instead of "Message Board", they got tagged "Message Borg" :-) I found that a good way to advertise a site at a furry con is to leave something on the flyer table/message board with the URL to the site printed on it.  I saw where someone had left cards advertising TNFur, a yahoogroups.com list for furs who live in Tennessee and I was one of at least 3 furs that weekend who discovered that list and signed up for it because of those cards. Also, I have yet to check the hits they got since last Friday, but I left out one set of cards advertising my main page, the page on my site that displays all the artwork and stories with Cassie the Rock Vixen and  the page on my site that displays all the artwork and stories with Vixina.  I also left out a second set of cards advertising my "Louve RSD Awareness Page" (see my signature at the end of this report for URL).  By when I got what was left of the cards back Sunday evening, 119 of the first set had been taken and 110 of the second set had been taken :-) We were blessed with good weather all weekend.  True, it was cloudy and often raining most of the weekend, but that's the point.  Temperatures stayed in the 70's instead of being the usual near 100 that it is in Memphis at this time of year. SATURDAY Most of today was spent running around getting sketches done. I did discover one negative thing about the hotel's location.  Remember where I said it was near the airport?  Memphis is the location of FedEx's headquarters, the hotel is less than 2 miles from the end of one of the runways and is almost directly under that runway's landing/takeoff slope.  So it was noisy at times.  Stll, though, good choice of hotel overall :-) Anytime you have a full moon at midnight during a furry con, you can pretty much count on there being a howling.  That night at midnight, about 100 of us went out in the parking lot & gathered in a circle to howl at the moon just for the fun of it.  The amusing thing was that before we could get started, we had to step aside to let cars moving through the parking lot get by and every time we did, a few of the wolves would go running after the car.  Well, what do you expect canids to do? :-) SUNDAY The con staffers running the fursuit masquerade were nice to people with cameras, giving us first choice at the seats before they let everyone else in so we could get good places for taking photo or video :-)  I would have got photos of the masquerade, but I was taping it. Video overall was dissapointing, the only video I got being of the fursuit parade and later the masquerade. I would have liked to have taped Kage's Story Hour, but was told by the furs staffing the registration table that he wasn't going to be there.  I later found out the reason why I was told that.  All weekend long, I kept seeing a fur running around wearing a brown paper bag with brown paper ears & a black tipped white cone with whiskers & a thick white rope for a tail, all as part of what later got called "the cheapest fursuit ever".  He had "The Great Mysterious Furry" on his con badge, so nobody knew who he was.  Then at the fursuit masquerade mid-Sunday afternoon, he got unmasked.  I'll give you one guess who it was :-) As many of you already know, Tiger Haven (tigerhaven.org), a big cat sanctuary near Knoxville, TN suffered a devestating fire in the last year that destroyed some of their buildings and killed four tiger cubs.  The charity auction and other donations raised over $6,000 that was given directly to Tiger Haven representatives that were at the con :-)  HUMAN representatives, silly!  Not actual live tigers! :-) One really nice thing that I hope ets repeated was that ater the closing ceremonies, every con attendee that wanted it got treated to a dinner of BBQ chicken, mashed potatoes and beans with chocolate cream & walnut pie for dessert :-) PHOTOS http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/mf01ph01.jpg Due to the fact that apparently nobody can make a one-use camera that can take decent photos in good light as well as bright light, I only 5 photos because they all came out so dark (I am seriously thinking about getting a digital camera that'll take better photos even though I'll hardly use it) , so I put them all in one image. From top to bottom, two 2.5 week old kittens that the Arkansas Humane Association had at their table in the Dealer's Den, the view from my room on the 4th floor, the BBQ chicken dinner that was offered to all MFM attendees after the closing ceremonies, an unknown fur and two unknown fursuits posing for photos. ARTWORK Now for the final part of my con report.  This con, I got the most sketches overall, with a total of 1 of myself, 12 of myself pictured with Vixina and 13 of Cassie the rock vixen :-) MYSELF All drawings of myself (and a few stories that I appear in) can be seen at http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/Cloud002.htm http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/meac2001badge.jpg Color con badge by Tiltwolfe CASSIE THE ROCK VIXEN All sketches of Cassie show her posing in her usual fancy dress, stockings and with her guitar, which is how I told artists to draw her.  A sketch noted as "action shot" means that Cassie is sketched as performing a show.  All drawings of Cassie and several stories that she appears in can be seen at http://members.aol.com/Cassie.htm http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/bill_holbrook_01.jpg Pencil sketch by Bill Holbrook http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/eric_schwartz_01.jpg Pencil Sketch by Eric Scwartz (action shot) http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/james_donaldson_01.jpg Pencil sketch by James Donaldson http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/koz_01.jpg Pencil sketch by Koz (action shot) http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/ksharra_01.jpg Inked sketch by K'sharra (action shot) http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/mathias_blackwolf_01.jpg Inked sketch by Mathias Blackwolf (action shot) http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/miachel_higgs_01.jpg Pencil sketch by Miachel Higgs http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/oscar_finlayson_01.jpg Inked sketch by Oscar Finlayson http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/pelzig_01.jpg Inked sketch by Pelzig http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/rags_01.jpg pencil/blue pencil sketch by Rags http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/randy_entinger_01.jpg pencil/blue pencil sketch by Randy Entinger http://members.aol.com/cassierockvixen2/tiltwolfe_01.jpg Pencil sketch by Tiltwolfe http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/zorro_re_01.jpg Inked blue pencil sketch by Zorro Re VIXINA AND I All sketches of Vixina and I and a few stories that we both appear in can be seen at http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/CldVix04.htm I told all artists to draw Vixina and I in any clean romantic setting, saying that I go by the "would I show this to my mother" standard.  Instead of her usual tank top with her cutoff shorts, I had each artist draw Vixina wearing either her triangle top with her cutoff shorts or her dress.  Again, Vixina is a fictional character that's not even loosely based on anyone I know. http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme03.jpg Pencil sketch by Tiltwolfe of Vixina (bikini triangle top and cutoff shorts) with a wide eyed look of surprise on her face as she looks at me down on one knee in front of her, you can probably guess from that what I'm doing :-) http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme11.jpg Pencil sketch by Bill Holbrook of Vixina (bikini triangle top and cutoff shorts) and I looking at each other while we walk paw in paw. http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme01.jpg Inked sketch by Brian McPherson of Vixina (dress) and I standing nose to nose, me saying something to her http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme02.jpg Inked sketch by Bushycat of Vixina (bikini triangle top and cutoff shorts) supposedly having a picnic in a grassy meadow somewhere, but obviously having lost interest in the food. http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme09.jpg Pencil Sketch by Chris Sutor of Vixina (dress) and I holding each other's paws and looking into each other's eyes. http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme05.jpg Pencil sketch by K'sharra of Vixina (bikini triangle top and cutoff shorts) and I sitting poolside, legs dangling in the water, Vixina leaning towards me. http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme04.jpg Pencil sketch by Mathias Blackwolf of Vixina (bikini triangle top and cutoff shorts) and I sitting face to face, holding paws, leaning close to each other and looking into each other's eyes. http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme12.jpg Pencil sketch by Miachel Angel Pena of Vixina (bikini triangle top and cutoff shorts) and I in a rocky woodland setting, me having fallen asleep with my head on Vixina's lap (If you're wondering why the ears look the way they do, that's probably because Miachel likes to draw squirrels) http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme10.jpg Pencil sketch by Rags of Vixina (bikini triangle top and cutoff shorts) with a happy look on her face as I offer her a flower. http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme06.jpg Pencil sketch by Rags of Vixina (bikini triangle top and cutoff shorts) looking back at me while I hold her from behind. http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme08.jpg Color sketch by Sammi of Vixina (dress) and I standing close, me touching her face & holding her arm, Vixina holding my arm, the two of us looking into each other's eyes. http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/vixme07.jpg Pencil sketch by Tigerjuice of Vixina (dress) and I standing close, me holding her waist, Vixina holding my arms, our eyes closed & noses almost touching. Take care!  Hope you liked the report and the art and that you had as good of a Labor Day weekend as I did!  Wuff! Cloudchaser Shaconage, a chocolate & peanut butter lovin' Red Wolf furry Louve RSD Awareness Page-In Honor of Louve http://cloudchaser.esmartweb.com/louversd.htm Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, a devestating and painful illness that 1,000's of people including my sister Louve must live with every day.  Louve is in the final stage of full body RSD a.k.a. Dysautonomia, incurable and fatal after prolonged severe suffering than can last for years http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/dysauto_doc.htm</HTML>