lists. I’m still working on plans to conduct a (Science Week) Science Freecon and a SF&F Freecon later this Transcendental year Basenjis Mailing comments. Forever behind and lost in time again! By the time you are reading this (Late April?) it will be well into the New Year, too late then to Sermons and wish you all a merry Autumns Equinox, but let me wish well ahead of time a cheerful (Northern) Summer Solstice. Enlightenment Mailing comments on ANZAPA issues # 234 of Issue Number 23 December 2006 April 2007 1- OBO 234 – Bruce Gillespie Congratulations heroic achievements in recruiting with the 34 copies required for mailing. Perhaps we will soon Produced by Garry Dalrymple as a see full ANZAPA membership becoming a listed and contribution to ANZAPA, the Australian tradeable commodity, with new market entrants required to form a consortium and buy out an existing franchise and New Zealand (SF fan’s) Amateur holder. With QANTAS on the way into private hands, what other Aussie Icons are there left for the Merchant Press Association. Postal Address: P. Bankers to ‘commodity-ise’ and charge fees on? O. Box 2 Bexley North NSW 2207, 2 – Bloody Bored Student – Duncan Campbell Home ph. (best after 7 pm) 02 9718- 5827 Commencing an ANZAPA newsletter with an uncredited [email protected] photo of the Moon (centred on Sinis Iridium and the North pole region) sends mixed messages. I am in general agreement with the views you have expressed on Sci-Fi TV, but why not read a book or two as well. All the When first packed this ideas that come through as Sci-Fi generally existed in books / short stories before their adaptation to the TV / newsletter contains a Movie form and usually so much is lost in the translation. 3 Geology Rhubarb – John and Diane Fox specially selected mixture When I see the drawings of you, I keep thinking, ‘have I seen something like this on May Day in Red Square. I of; wonder how the authorities would react if you were to have it painted up on your houses facade? As the Wolli Valley area is also sandstone outcrop country and as Mysti and I pass a pile of spoil boulders from the M5 East Mailing Comments to #234 tunnel each time we walk to the Post Office Box I had often wondered at the weathering and colour effects on the sandstone we pass. Up on the cliffs there remain Is SF the New Black? salt water weathering effects from when the valley was last an estuary. A point to ponder given predicted ocean rises. A Basenjis Tail Piece Editorial 4 - Little Passport – Christopher Garcia This newsletter is a shorter version of what had been piling Humour is such a subjective thing. I watch a fair bit of up as my next ANZAPA contribution. The NSW Election the Simpsons and the ‘Little Passport’ didn’t immediately and then the Easter Break intervened. Apart from these, come to mind. Museums for Computers, what next? what I have been spending some time on is a listing of all Zoos for endangered software applications, captive the books I have at home, Fiction and non-fiction. I’ve breeding and release programs for programmable passed 1,000 and 1,500 is a likely total. Re-shelving, and calculators? the identification of Duplications and Discards will surely Hope to hear more about ‘conventional life’ in the US follow. Whatever happens I intend that my hoard doesn’t when you have evolved a more repeatable newsletter end up like Kevin Dillon’s. At some point I will distribute format. Transcendental Basenji Sermons and Enlightenment Volume 1 Number 23 1 ‘Christlike Fanac’, do you think? Oh dear, yet more 5 - *BRG* 47 - Bruce Gillespie Cats! I agree with your Firefly / Serenity analysis, but I Ah at last, some mailing comments directed to me. On think Joss Weedon was in effect following the path the topic of Zara Baxter, two comments in one issue blazed by Space Above And Beyond, of re-telling old but deserves a response. I am very aware of her ‘promising’ essentially timeless stories of human adventure in a new track record of Fanac Vs actual performance, at times it has SF-nal setting to a new audience. been something I have had to work around with planning for the Freecons. I prefer to provide excuses for her in the 8 – Megatheriums for Breakfast No. 48 - David Grigg hope of eventual improvement rather than to bare teeth and Not much bicycle use ahead of the Freecon! With the criticise pointedly. Re Sue Ann Post, sadly it did not new year just starting I will have to do something about occur to me to put those very questions, perhaps at some this! time in the future ….. What a kerfuffle over yesterday’s heroes! Re your Cosmos concerns, I had been hearing 9 – Neccessity 73: Little Things – Jack Herman Where similar sorts of misgivings from Sydney, so no surprise would we be without people like the Lordly Vesties, a true there. The Observatory lost its main function in the 1930s, charactature of their class on both sides of the World, with City lights. A ‘Branch Office’ Observatory was set up ennobled by Llyodd George for an election time twenty some short distance from the Dalrymple (-Hay) State thousand Pound political donation (in the era of the ten Forrest on Sydney’s (then) outskirts. During the War-time pound Pom?), the apogee of the absentee Landlord blackouts it was able to function again and with modern light surviving into the twentieth Century. I find it perpetually filters and electronics it could still do some types of amazing that in a country so in love with paper money Astronomy. An irony is that as a ‘Museum of Astronomy’ that it invented the automatic and faultless paper money for the tourist trade it has the best instrument it has ever counting machine so they could spend more time with had! Going all the Way and organising a ‘real’ long their money and less time re-counting it that they cannot weekend SF convention is some time away yet. A long get quicker and less disputable results by having uniform weekend SF con in Sydney would have to compete for dollar bill sized ballot papers for their elections, sorting members with the other ‘near’ SF interests, Anime, Gamin, them into piles and then feeding them into the counting the Wannabee Writers et al. It would be a $20,000 machines. Fifth Item, What Fifth Item (I apply the experiment and what I feel would happen at this stage is ‘Cole’ defence). I also watch and appreciate the that even if you could devise a multi-stream program giving Science Fiction show ‘West Wing’, with an American appropriate representation to all the flavours of Science President of Nobel Prize winning intellect and principalled Fiction you would only end up with in effect four or five small staff in high public office, what else can it be but SF, on single interest conventions happening simultainiously rather the other hand, ‘Commander In Chief’ with an than a harmonious whole and each of these parts (at $50 Independent Woman in the White house will just be plain per day) would be less appealing than a ‘Supanova’ day at Fantasy - Until the Clinton-Obama ticket sweeps the US $15 per day and dozens of (Comix / Anime) guest Stars. I Primaries. only see a future for a $20 a day Syncon if I can build up the number of Lit SF fans attending a Freecon to 100 or so and 10 - Kingdom of the Bland – Eric Lindsay - even then events something like ‘A Day at the Australian RAEYCBNC. Museum with Lois Mc Master Bujold, David Brin and Jack Dann for $15’ would have to be intermediate proof of 11 – From the lair of the Lynx 39 – LynC concept steps. Without belittling the consequences to the suicide’s family I think you fail to appreciate how desperate the 6 - Notes from a new life No. 6 - Karen Gory depths of depression can be. Being of Irish descent I Ah the Unitarians, the faith of Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl, have a predisposition to the ‘Viking’s Disease’ of a fascinatingly American religion, with most of the religiosity Depression, Anxiety attacks and feelings of negative self removed and just the philosophical justification of moral worth.. At times it has been pretty bad, no were near to behaviour retained, Old Testament Free fundamentalism. I actual suicide, but close enough to consider the means suspect that to most of them what they believe is far less (but never a full appreciation of the consequences to important to them than the consequences of their actions, those around me, that only happens when you are ‘over’ Quakers without the hats and the Oats? I do not know if a spell of the Black Dog. they have an Australian congregation. Sorry No Hits with the books or the movies. 12 – Panopticon 39 – Dan McCarthy An Iconic Cover feature and a tale of the dire 7 - Bookmark No.4 - Michael F. Green consequences of small DIY competencies. New NZ Ah you are confusing Christ SF fans (really love the ideas Coinage! gadzooks so that’s why so much Kiwi trash- of the man) and Christ Fantasy Fans (love and look cash has been turning up in my change of late. forward to the Rapture and Tribulation Special effects and Presumably the poker machines of Sydney will also be looking forward to a more comfortable afterlife than you - overflowing with examples of this now officially debased you God Dammned Unsaved Asshole!), indeed concern coinage.