The Other Paper had a lead article last week about the ComFest that whined about the weird hippy cult and its entertainment committee, who are accused of having a secret selection process that was only revealed by the crack reporting of Lyndsey Teter. She somehow was able to delve into the “shrouded in mystery†group and was able to produce a list of ways to get your band onto the stage.
The story proclaimed “There is no guide—written or otherwise—that outlines how to land your band a spot in the coveted ComFest.â€. Really? I wonder if there is some way to know if that is true?

“Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for ... 1998â€
Oh hi Mr. Peabody, whats that you say? You have an archive of the ComFest website back to 1998?
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.comfest.com
Cool, that shows the long history of the ComFest website, lots of interesting history in those links. And what do we find in the May 5, 1999 ComFest website, on the application page?
http://web.archive.org/web/19990427163828/www.comfest.com/applications.html
Oh no – looks like little miss reporter got her story a bit wrong. That page has a long, detailed section about the Entertainment Committee and the selection process. As in “written guideâ€.
And reading through the other versions of the ComFest website over the years, I see the application page has pretty much always had a guide to getting on the stage.
As the kids say, Lyndsey Teter, you fail at the internets.
Later: I'm not a regular reader of CU, so I didn't know about the history of Ms. Teter and this blog. An editorial slant that promotes controversy and selective quotes to support it seems to be standard for both her and TOP.
Read the thread from May for more on this reporter.




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