SOUTHERN TAILS
The official newsletter of Furry Weekend Atlanta
November 2005

In this issue...
- Meet Our Charity Organization
- Art Show
- Conbook Submissions
- Attention Dealers
- Reserve Your Room Online
- Volunteers Needed

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Meet Our Charity Organization: The Ellijay Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary

The Ellijay Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary is a 50-acre facility that medically cares for all species of orphaned and injured wildlife indigenous to Georgia and the southeast. It began 30 years ago when a young boy named Craig Cylke began rescuing and caring for injured animals that he found in the wild. It wasn’t long before the surrounding community learned that Craig would take care of any wild animals in need that were brought to him. Today, the sanctuary is a state and federally licensed facility that remains under the guidance of Craig and his wife, Debbie who are both certified in wildlife rehabilitation.

To date, the sanctuary’s dedicated staff has educated over 100,000 children and adults through on-site course offerings, summer camps, and mobile education programs. It is their hope that through environmental education, schools, churches, civic groups and families will come to learn about the “Circle of Life” –realizing that if we all help to take care of "mother nature,” she in turn will take care of us.

Furry Weekend Atlanta hosted Ellijay in 2005 and was proud to have them returning to visit us again in 2006! Furry Weekend attendees donated almost $3,000 to the Sanctuary in 2005 and we are looking forward to shattering that record again in 2006!

http://anthrozine.com

Quentin 'Cubist' Long here, letting you know that ANTHRO #2 is online for your reading pleasure -- in more ways than one! We've chosen a select variety of furry novels that you can buy through Amazon.com, and if you *do* that, ANTHRO will recieve a percentage of the purchase price. We get a bit of cash, and you get a good reading experience. Is that a win-win situation, or what? If this appeals to you, click on SUPPORT in the navigation menu, then on the "buy a book" link. If it doesn't appeal to you, just keep in mind that any money we get from this will go to ANTHRO's contributing artists and writers.
Speaking of artists, the first thing you'll see in this issue is a darn fine cover by Lucius Appaloosius! And on the inside, we've got a nicely extensive lineup...

An ambitious new furry fiction archive, FurRag, has made its current beta state available to the public to aid the furry participants of NaNoWriMo and offer an introduction to the rapidly developing functionalities.

This Sunday WikiFur - the furry encyclopedia - celebrated the creation of its 2000th article. Founded on 24 July, WikiFur has quickly become one of the most comprehensive sites for furry information on the net, with over 350,000 words of content. More than 23,000 edits have been made since its inception. It remains freely editable by all.

For many years there have been several real-time communities devoted to
chatrooms, graphic chats, IRC, mucks, etc. Well, we have finally put our
plans together and have opened one of our own!

Introducing FurNation Worlds! A real-time 3D game system that lets you
become the animal of your dreams and walk around, explore, and interact with
other members in the Furry Community! And it's all FREE!

Some important hotel news from Further Confusion 2006.

Due to high demand, the hotel is currently out of double queen rooms. Single King rooms are still available and rollaway beds may be requested as extra beds in these rooms. Please request the extra beds when making your reservation with the hotel.

Also, there are no more parlor suites available. If you wish to be put on a waiting list on the chance of a cancellation, please contact us at hotel@furtherconfusion.org.

More details can be found on our Hotel information web page.

Midwest FurFest Newsletter: November 2005

It's only three weeks until Midwest FurFest and everyone is working hard to make this our best convention yet!

In This Issue:
The Hotel Is Filling Up Fast
Last Chance To Mail In Your Registration
Programming: We've Got A Busy Weekend For You!
The Dealers Room Awaits Your Money
Artists Alley: Bigger and Better Than Ever!
Call For Puppeteers
Exciting Doings In The Video Room

Peekaboo Press is looking for submissions for its upcoming anthology series Yiff-rific! This include short comic stories, pinups, and cover art. For more information, see http://www.peekaboopress.com

Now available!

Pre-empting the Little Black Book of Furry Fiction's second issue, the special Halloween issue bundles stories from some of the fandom's most talented writers.

2005 RECOMMENDED ANTHROPOMORPHICS LIST
Fur Your Consideration.....
(Last Update October 15, 2005)
Purpose of the Recommended Anthropomorphics List

This fifth annual Recommended Furry Reading List has two purposes. Firstly, it is open for all Furry fans to recommend the best anthropomorphic movies, TV series, novels, artwork, games, etc. that they found during 2005. It is for fans who want to know what anthropomorphic movies, TV series, novels, etc. are worth looking for. The List is open to anyone to add to, so if you know of any 2005 Furry movies or comic books or comic strips, etc. that are worth recommending, please send your recommendations through the end of 2005 to:
recommended@ursamajorawards.org
It would be greatly appreciated if you are able to provide weblinks to your recommendations so that we can correctly add them to the list.

Experience...the THRILLS!...the FUN!...the FUR!

Megaplex 2006...the HORROR! It's coming...

BOO! It's that time of year for spooks and scares...and for a quick update on Megaplex 2006!

The fifth-anniversary edition of Florida's furry arts and performance convention will be held 17-19 March 2006, as we return to the Sheraton World Resort in sunny Orlando, Florida.

Rocket City Furmeet: The Fourth Dimension!

What exactly is the 4th Dimension? It is about Time. So, the RCFM theme is about Furry Time! Does this mean events will start late and end late? Well, we hope not. We hope to keep this past year's track record of nearly everything starting and ending in a timely fashion.

Beyond our silent foreboding castle gates, who knows what unspoken wonders
await. Amongst our ranks are heraldic things; gryphons and dragons and
horses with wings. The work we do is mysterious and deep (well,
truthfully it's not; it'd bore you to sleep) Curious creatures we be,
laboring away, somewhere in the mystical realm of San Jose, Weaving magic,
wonder, spells and illusion, to bring you the one and only Further Confusion!

1. FCTV Announcements
2. Extreme Fursuit Makeover, Season 2: Transformation!
3. Furry Marketplace
4. FC Weapons Policy
5. Furry Night Live! Returns
6. Staff Needed
7. FC Film Festival
8. Conbook Submissions Needed
9. Hotel FAQ for Booking Rooms
10. Further Confusion Masquerade
11. Next Public Meeting

Quentin Long, editor and webmaster of the netzine TSAT, here to announce that TSAT's latest issue, #42, is now available for your browsing pleasure at either its main site or its mirror site! The glitch in its main host which had been preventing me from logging onto said server is solved; the mirror host was never glitched.

Of the zine's contents, furfen will find Dan Eagle's Dreams of Flight, Erastus Centaur's Paint, Bob Stein's Interview, and the fourth installment of Cougar & Cubist's Running Wild, to be of particular interest.

Once upon a time (Sat, 8 Oct 2005 13:06:47 -0700, to be precise) "Doodles" wrote to alt.fan.furry:

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