I only caught the post-scrubbing website. Was the theme explicitly Manifest Destiny?!
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The Guests were referred to as Pioneers, The venue as The Frontier, the dealer room- the Side Show
aug 21, 2025, 4:27 pm • 4 0 • view
JFC. The tone-deafness and lack of sensitivity when planning a GLOBAL CONFERENCE OF WRITERS AND FANS. If you can't pass this simple test then just get out.
aug 21, 2025, 5:14 pm • 4 0 • view
Good grief
aug 21, 2025, 5:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Was the "adventure" westward expansion? Because there was definitely a westward expansion context across the site before the site was scrubbed.
aug 21, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 0 • view
That was the original website as per the internet archive. You can judge for yourself. web.archive.org/web/20231128...
aug 21, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
This is not what was up this morning, there was a thick blue banner referring to the Blog as The Telegraph, The guests as Pioneers, The venue as The Frontier, and the dealers room as The Side Show.
aug 21, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
You specifically asked if the original intent was Western Expansion - that's all I was answering there. I don't see that in the original website. Somebody clearly got carried away with a theme that was tone deaf as hell. Olde Western theme now nuked. Good. Isn't that how it should work?
aug 21, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
It's exactly how it should work, but we need to make sure the poor decision making doesn't continue. By definition Olde Western is Western Expansion.
aug 21, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view