The Drink Tank Issue 244 - [email protected] OK, here’s another cover from Mo Star- There’s always a post-Cine- key! That’s also one of her pieces over there -> quest let-down. It’s a lot like what I really love her stuff and I’m so happy she gave I feel after CorFlu or WorldCon me the disk full of her stuff. I have so many more or WrestleMania or whatever. It’s to run and you’ll see them too! decompression, as the Burner com- OK, the latest craziness in my life is, of munity would call it, and it kinda course, that I’ll be chairing CorFlu in 2011. The sucks. There’s the classic ‘Cinequest hotel will be the Domain in Sunnyvale. If you People’ phenonena, where there were at either the first Steampunk convention are people who I only see at CQ. back in October 2008 or at the 2009 Potlatch, Luckily, we’re all actively trying to you’ve been to the Domain. It’s an awesome avoid that. We’re geting together hotel for a smaller con, and I’m happy to say this weekend to hang-out, which I that we’re looking at a wonderful room rate (89 love. bucks a night!) and we’re also going ot have a And there’s also England. Lin- great location for all the required outside eatery da and I leave next week and I’m so eating that happens at CorFlu. It’ll be February excited. I am so happy that we man- 11th through 13th, with shoulder nights also aged to make it happen, and despite available. I can’t wait to get to it, and if you’ve got the fact that it’ll hurt the finances ideas for programming, or wanna help out, drop for the next couple of months, I’ll me a line at [email protected]. make do. I’ve got my computer and So, once it starts, I’ll have yet another I’m busy putting together a thumb thing on my plate that could well effect the drive with music and such. And im- regularity of this zine. it seems that I say that a ages. I’ll need images to keep myself lot and then I still get this thing out pretty darn producing zines while I’m in flight. I frequently. I’m rather shocked by that. will try and complete at least an is- I’ve got two television shows that will be sue of Journey Planet, a Drink Tank rating their own dedicated issue of The Drink and perhaps even a Claims Depart- Tank (or maybe Claims Department). The first ment. That’d be sweet. is Glee, which I’m totally psyched for it’s return, And this issue has another while the second is the hilarious Community. It Forgotten Recorded Decade and stars a certain Mr. Joel McHale and Chevy Chase, a piece from John Hertz about his but a supporting cast that is so damn good. The DUFF candidacy. show has an amazing amount of interconnected Also, I’m running for Mayor episodes at the same time as managing to be of San Francisco. You’ll hear more driven by characters that are both likable and about that in a minute, but here’s all dispicable. I love that in a show. Highly post- you need to know: I will bring Star modern, too. Fleet Academy to San Francisco! The Forgotten Recorded Decade producer name of Brian Eno. Eno was already another song that more perfectly sums them something of a genius. His work with Roxy Music up. It’s complicated, the lyrics make you wander Part Five: A Debate Around the alone made him a legend, but he was producing down odd hallways. The song is also completely Talking Heads all sorts of people. He hopped on board as tied-up with the video which was a one of the the producer of the Talking Heads in 1978 and first hits on MTV. The entire album is infused I doubt anyone familiar with the his albums were a big deal. He produced two with funk and defines New Wave. On the entire American version of rock ‘n roll to any depth albums with them in the 1970s before time album, there’s not one chord change. None. would deny that the Talking Heads were one of came for Remain in Light. That’s cool. Cross-eyed and Painless might be the the most significant players in its history. They’re The creation of the album started with funkiest track, it’s especially powerful when you in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, they’ve been instrumental jam sessions. The attempt was listen to it in combination with stuff from folks named by everyone from Kate Bush to Living to make the band less of a lead singer with a like Parliament. Color as major influences, and they had amazing backing band and more a band of four musicians. The odd thing is that the album gets a success in the 17 years they were a band. They They experimented with African rhythms, they lot of press for the record cover. It was created released albums in the 70s and 80, and there added percussionists, are two that I consider to be the classics, each they recorded jam worthy of inclusion on the National Recording sessions and they were Registry. Though one must realize that there’s ready to go. only so much room on the Registry, so one has Only Eno didn’t to be chosen over the other. The two albums, want to play. Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues each have His producing strong cases to be made. of the previous two Let’s start with a little background. albums had been rough. The Talking Heads formed around 1974 after The Heads weren’t David Bryne, Tine Weymouth and Chris Frantz an easy band to work had graduated from the Rhode Island School with, apparently. The of Design. They formed a band, started playing Heads sent him their gigs. Their first gig was opening for a band called jam session recordings The Ramones at a club called CBGBs. The group and Eno loved them. developed a following, though it was obvious He took on the album that Byrne was the leader. Some would say that and the rest is history. it was David Byrne with a backing band. Jerry The most Harrison came into the band just a bit later and notable song on the that was the formation of the core of the band. album is Once in a Over the years, they’d add many other pieces to Lifetime. That song the act, including Bernie Worrell of Funkadelic. is pretty much the Another significant part of the equation definition of the Talking that was the success of the Talking Heads was a Heads. I can’t think of with the help of Walter Bender and the group deal. This was the age of Michael Jacokson and understands that and plays with it. There are at the MIT Media Lab. It was probably the most Madonna, but the Heads were at that level at elements of reggae, disco and the ever-present seen piece of computer design up to that point. times with the college/alternative crowd. Punk influence. There’s much more dance to It’s primitive, but it’s really state of the art for Now, much like Remain in Light, there Speaking in Tongues, it made it as high as Number 1980. are those who believe that Speaking in Tongues Two on the Dance charts. The two feel like very There was a transition in the way music is the greatest Talking Heads album, and others different albums, though not quite like they were was produced and marketed between the who say that it is one of the defining albums made by two different bands. creation of these two albums. While the Heads of the 1980s. The Heads and Brian Eno parted The chart success of Speaking in Tongues were a popular band before, the increased ways, and there was a very talented group of far surpassed Remain in Light. Burning Down the importance of MTV and successful touring all musicians used on teh album, including Alex House was the Talking Heads’ only Top Ten hit, helped them break-through harder and made Weir and Bernie Worell. Musically, this is the and a number of the other sons found some the next Talking Heads album a much bigger best line-up that the Heads used on any of their success on the Charts. The tour supporting albums. Speaking in Tongues was the basis for Stop Making Oddly, it’s also Sense, arguably the best concert film of all-time notable for its cover. (and a film that deserves to be on the National The regular cover was Film Registry!). The versions on Speaking in from David Byrne, but Tongues are much different (and not always the special edition better) than those in the film or its soundtrack. won a Grammy for It’s a great album, and part of it is the lack of Best Album Cover Eno in the mix. There’s a certain amount of tonal Design for artist disquiet in it that helps. Robert Rauschenburg. And it’s the production that might throw I didn’t even know it more in the favor of Remain in Light. Eno and that was a category. co. used a new device, a Lexicon digital studio. This is the Talking This was one of the first recordings to use it Heads at the peak of and it gave the caverousity that worked through Talking Heads-ness. some of the albums. The production of Speaking This is a much more in Tongues is different, but no less effective. It is commercial album than produced as a pop album, and that works so very Remain in Light. This is well. A real pop band would never be able to an album from a band produce an album this effective and infectious. that knows something All that said, I think that it would probably of its own power, but go to Remain in Light for the simple reason that at the same time, it is it’s got Eno. The Heads without Brian Eno would the most intelligent not have happened in such a big way. of the Heads’ work specifically because it Next issue: It’s like Night and Day… Norm Cates (New Zealand). For 2008, Leigh Why Vote for DUFF Ann Hildebrand knitted a Dr. Who scarf which people got to wear and which was eventually by John Hertz auctioned. To stand for election one must be DUFF, the Down Under Fan Fund, sends nominated by three fans from home and two fans across the Pacific Ocean. In 2009 Emma from abroad. The idea is to send someone Hawkes went from Australia to Canada. Voting whom the destination fans would like to meet; closes on March 31st for the 2010 delegate there is also a flavor of embassy. who will go to Australia and possibly also New To vote one must only be part of the s-f Zealand. You can find a ballot and vote online community. Our pillar activities are local clubs, here . fanzining, conventions, collecting, to which I might DUFF is the second oldest of the three add our own music which we call filksong (after intercontinental funds. a 1950s typing error that stuck), s-f costuming TAFF, the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund, is which began in the 1930s and eventually bred the the oldest; Chris Garcia your Editor was the on-stage competition we call the Masquerade, 2008 TAFF delegate, went to Britain, and upon and graphic art. If one is unsure whether one is his return became the North America TAFF known to the Adminstrator there is a line on the Adminstrator to serve until homecoming of the ballot for a reference. next eastbound delegate. Steve Green the 2009 I have left Why for the end. When one delegate is likewise the Britain - Ireland - Europe is part of a community there is a natural wish Administrator until the next westbounder is to participate. Those of us who take a hand in elected, travels, and returns. choosing delegates put more hot air into their GUFF, the Going Under Fan Fund or the balloons — hmm — I’ll let that stand Get Up-and-over Fan Fund depending on the year, is similar. Delegates attend the World Science Fiction Convention if held on their destinatory continent, otherwise the national convention. They meet fans, win friends, build or repair Chris- I’m not sure I understand. bridges, eat drink and are merry, publish a trip Jay- What aren’t you getting? report to raise money for their fund, conduct Chris- The entire message of Ghost. the next home-continent election, and generally Jay- Ghost? make themselves useful. Chris- Ghost. The rest of us help them. At Noreascon Jay- It’s about loss. IV the 62nd Worldcon (2004) I was running the Chris- I thought it might be about Fanzine Lounge and gave a tea for TAFF delegate post-mortum stalking. James Bacon (Ireland) and DUFF delegate Jay- Fair point. How many bears you seen around lately? Or was, but the sun’s raising and I gotta get along Word of Amra Hyperboreans, for that matter? Excuse me a or the morning patrol will see my arranging Taral Wayne moment, will you? I missed one.” my little loan here, ha, ha! Not a bad haul (Thorpppfthunk, plop.) really. The little thieves were carrying about 7 (Chop, chop, chop, chop… ) “Gods! Whodda thought the little Crowns, 12 Penny, a Farthing and… seems to “Oh! Hi there! Don’t mind me. I was beggar had armor ‘neath his jerkin. Usually be button… and I haven’t even gone through all just whacking the heads off a few mart assed can’t afford it. Musta stole it from someone he their pockets yet. By the way, since you’re here, Picts and Stygians. Wait a sec, will you?” ambushed. ‘Less the Turranians are supplying the so convenient and all, and I do have this sword (Hack, slatch, thrash, wizzz, crunch, shlup, barbarians on the sly, which I would put past ‘em. here, maybe you could turn your pockets out as aieeeeeee, bong, thud, drip, drip, drip, dri… ) You can tell their kind – beady little eyes, swarthy, well. We’re old friends, so I won’t do you in or “There now. Finished. What can I do to hooked-nosed little men. Tried to triple the nothin’. Thanks. Down on your luck are you? you?” price of brewer’s hops a while back and make a You were nearly broke, old buddy. Well, drop “What’s that? Got a copy of the Daily killing. Your Redmouth fella would’a just pillaged around again sometime, ha, ha. Always glad to Herald for me?. What’s it say in the headline? a few trading posts and caravans to cut his see an old friend, especially before he spots me! C... O…. Good thing I learnt to read a couple expenses. Lucky for the Turranians that we’re If you’ll leave your boots and belt on the ground of years ago when I was in the dungeon for part of the civilized world here. Out town’s and start walking, you might make it to the hills littering. Who’s this, um…Coman? Conam? Also actually got a library now, with three books. The before the patrol sees you. They might ask if you known as… Am…ra. Broke up a typhoon? That boys in the cohort can’t wait to learn to read, have anything to do with littering up the King’s doesn’t make sense. Or maybe he broke up a so’s they can get a library card. …but as I was highways with these corpses here.” tavern? Must be a tough son of a bitch, but I saying, we worked over the Turranian merchant- “Me? I’ve got an appointment with a bet he just got pissed. Most like he couldn’t prince who cornered the hops real politely like, bonny farm lass I know, other side of the fens. hold his li’ker. Typical of those Hyperboreans. and gave him a message to take back to that Now git!” You’d be surprised at home many of them are Yerk, the emperor Yezdigerd. As soon as the merely acting butch. Yes, I know, that lackwit price of beer goes down, we stop collecting Robert of Howard says any Hyperborean can Turranian ears from his merchants. Very friendly. lick any platoon of us poor detestable, civilized, Very business-like.” Southern weaklings, but I take great comfort in “Cinema? Hasn’t been invented yet, so I warm meals, a dry roof over my head and a few suppose we shouldn’t really be talking about that luxuries. I also take great comfort in a secure ‘till somebody does invent it. Wouldn’t be decent life expectancy. None of this traipsing around really. Not at all. Still, with enough Sheckels, I in the woods, near starved, until I drop dead think you could do the job right. If the King at thirty-five. When I see one of those sons of gives the royal nod. Chance are, though, the bitched coming I run like hell or shoot’im up royal purse’ll be drawn too tight to really budget with arrows from a safe distance. That’s the the sets and special effects and such. Can’t harm thing. Lay ‘im out from a distance. That’s the to try, I suppose, but shoddy production values whole point of being a man instead of a bear, always show on the big screen.” say. The bear has his thews, but I got my head. “Well, it was nice seeing ya again, really Letter Graded Mail to a healthy race and may the best fan win. way the DUFF contestants handle themselves. Sent to [email protected] I’m happy to be a place where folks can go Like Jeff sez, “we’re in competition, but not war.” by our gentle readers to find out more from the candidates. The Absolutely. From the e-mails and Facebook Featuring Art from Mo Starkey! race ends soon, so I hope folks will go and comments we’ve had, I can tell Jeff is a nice guy. vote ASAP! I know John Hertz is, too; we’ve traded zines Dearly beloved, we gather here together to My parents were cool, too. Dad probably and such, and I really need to get the latest here from John Purcell on issue 242 could have been a fan since he had a great sense Askance off to him next week. The thing is, in I agree with you, Chris: Mo Starkey of humor and loved mysteries. Heck, he had a few recent years the fan fund races have been very is doing some mighty fine work these science fiction paperbacks mixed in with all of his friendly and energetic, and that’s a very good days. Keep those lovely bits coming on mysteries on the shelves, and never stopped me thing. Back in the early 1980s there was a major your covers, roomie. If I had thought more from reading them. In fact, mom and dad gave me to-do over TAFF, and it nearly destroyed the cleverly for new names on the FAAn Award Tom Swift, Jr. and Rick Brandt Science Adventure existence of the fan funds. Fortunately, cooler ballot, her name would have been placed in books as birthday and Christmas gifts for years. heads prevailed and time has certainly helped contention. I think she’s definitely deserving. I don’t think I have any of those anymore, which anesthetized the wounds. The impression I I don’t remember if I voted in the FAAn is a shame. My son now has the 36 or so Hardy get is that fans learned a lesson from that Awards or not, but if I did, Mo would be right Boys books I acquired as a kid; some of those are up there. over 50 years now! Good adventure just never As for the “DUFF Stump,” there are goes out of style. And nearly all of those Hardy indeed many good candidates this year. I confess Boys books came from the folks, too. If you grow to only knowing Jeff Boman and John Hertz, up in a reading family, you become a reader. and only through correspondence. Both are Dad gave me Farmer, Vonnegut, Leiber, and gentlemen and would make fine representatives. comics. I had a fannish Dad, but a non-fan So would I, but you know that. Many thanks Mom. I don’t know if I’d say I grew up in a for the kind words, sir. The other candidates I reading household, but I did live in a house don’t know at all, but that doesn’t make them of librarians. any less worthy of people’s votes. Look at their Taral Wayne’s knick-knack article credentials on the ballot: lots of con running reminds me of my Marvin the Martian experience, something that is lacking on my collection. At last count it numbers something fannish resume. I am not a con organizer, even like 47 items. I am not sure, so I’ll have to do an though I have no qualms about helping out inventory on it. There are Marvin stuffed animals, any way I can. Actually running these things is pens, artwork, posters, jigsaw puzzles, coffee tantamount to insanity, in my book, so my hat’s mugs, rubber stamps, etc., in our bedroom off to people like Terry Fong, Jannie Shea and and my office at school. I also have Marvin the Melanie Herz. Fandom needs folks like these, Martian slippers. They are warm and cozy, too. otherwise cons wouldn’t exist - well, maybe I collect Homer Simpson materials. I also am they would, but in a different form, I’m sure working on becoming Homer. - and we wouldn’t have as much fun. Here’s Finally, Jeff Boman is so right about the experience and don’t want it to ever happen be approaching from issue to issue with this. the history of sf fandom, I’ve come to think again. I am glad, and it’s indeed an honor to be There’s usually not much for me to add to it, of him as kind of a living repository of things in competition with such a nice bunch of folks. though, so that’s why there’s been a distinct fannish, with a wealth of details at hand on so It is still my hope that someday we can get lack of many locs from me over past issues. many things. So, since this is the first time I’m the views of folks who were involved, with But I do find I can send a loc this time, aware of that he has mentioned something the benefit of 30 years of distance, and see as I have some information regarding the involving me directly, I thought I should write to what really happened. article from Taral. With all the great pieces he correct some of the assumptions made here. I Anyway. Many thanks for the zine, and has been writing in the last couple of years on wish he had written me first to ask about this I’ll probably see your lurking form in the Virtual stuff, would have been happy to let him know Consuite of Corflu Cobalt this coming weekend. the sequence of events that brought that logo Don’t know if I’ll be able to be a part of the about, and maybe set his mind more at ease. Virtual ConSuite since I don’t have internet Anyway, just two points to hit: at home at the moment. I’ll see what I can First: He says he “..wonder(s) if Brad do, though. doesn’t read Locus and on-line news sites to By the way, next time cook with a find out how many new cons have appeared lower flame. I am very, very glad you weren’t every month, and bombard them all with burned. That could have been a dangerous finished art before it can occur to them to use situation. Thank you for the article, by anything else. This may not be all that farfetched the way. The latest ish is up on efanzines. an idea.” It’s an interesting idea, but not All the best, something I have done. I’m not even that aware John Purcell of most conventions, since it is just depressing Do not think that I’ve not considered the to see all the cool cons out there we can’t get massive problems that would have been to! From time to time over the years I’ve been caused had I not managed to get my beard contacted by a handful of conventions actually un-trapped. asking me to do some art for them. About the only cons I know I DO try to contact on my A Pat Paulsen 1968 Presidential campaign slogan own have been various Worldcons over the and bumper sticker: past decade or so. I’ve had an idea for a kind “I’ve upped my standards. Now up yours.” of follow-up to the fun 6-part illustration I was I love that line! able to do for the progress reports for the 1997 Worldcon, LoneStarCon 2. Most of them OK, and now...on issue 243...Brad Foster! have either not been interested (some to the point of not even writing back, sigh), or thought Greetings Chris ~ the idea was fun, but not something they felt Dipped into DRINK TANK #243 they wanted to work with. I’m still hoping to today. More interesting reading, as usual. I find a home for the idea. But beyond that, never like how I never know what subjects you will thought to actively seek out conventions and send unasked for art. choice. Maybe they had just happened to have I thought rather long and hard before sending Second: Whoever told him that I “..may seen something of mine recently, so I was fresh it to Chris to publish, because it might offend. have presented the concom with a finished in their minds; or because I’ve done art for To be more certain it didn’t, I rewrote the last flyer – fait accompli – ...” was off the mark a bit. Murray in the past, he first thought of someone lines again, then thought about it some more. At The actual connection was simple enough: I got he’d worked with. I don’t know. the end, I believed it to be stripped of anything an email out of the blue from Murray Moore I feel bad if Taral thinks I might have that might be seen as censorious, and (better in April of last year, saying he was part of the been purposely trying to get in ahead of other still) came up with the amusing gunslinger angle. committee behind a new convention in Toronto. artists, so to speak, and am going to send Chris didn’t get back to me with They needed a logo, and wanted something like a copy of this on directly to him. My own “ohmgawd, I can’t publish this!” so everything “an alien child reading a book at the base of usual assumption, when someone asks me to seemed copasetic. the CN tower.” or possibly: “CN tower with a do something like that logo, is that they had The life of a fanartist is a perplexing propeller beanie, maybe.” It was pretty much probably already been turned down by other one. You never know what anyone will like. They that simple. They were just shopping around artists before they came to me. I push like crazy say they’ll publish the work but then don’t, or looking for someone to draw their logo. I don’t when it comes to my professional work, since they mess it up in some way you would have know why they picked me in particular to that’s how I pay the bills. But things fannish have to be insane to predict. Then no-one mentions write, and for all I knew at the time they had always been just for the fun of it, and never the art unless it’s on the cover... even then, written to several other artists as well. I asked anything I felt was, or should be, a competition. sometimes not. him some questions, then did a little doodle of Hell, put my odd little toons up against so many One of my personal peeves is that my idea. They said they liked it, I did up a couple other fan artists and they blow me out of the I’m frequently told that I do anime. This is of finished versions and just asked if they could water! understandable, I guess. If you define the anime send me copies the first time they used each So, I hope that adds a few more details style as any cartoon with clean simple lines, version for my files, just as getting a fanzine and some clarification on my part to the article. large heads and eyes, and a pleasant sensibility. when it prints something of mine. They’ve since Looking back up the screen here; didn’t realize I Like Carl Barks, say... Or Herge. But who taken that little logo and done all sorts of cool was going on so long on this. I’ll close now and came first, Donald Duck and Tin Tin, or Card stuff with it on flyers and such, but I’ve had go draw some weird cartoons! Captors? My own style as an artists comes nothing else to do with it. from roots such as the cartoons I saw on TV I’m sorry that Taral felt it was wrong stay happy ~ and the non-superhero comic books I read. By that they happened to ask me to do the Brad the time I saw any anime it was the middle of drawing instead of him. But I’ve no knowledge the 1980s and I had already been drawing for of that end of the process. He said he did And a few words from Mr. Taral Wayne in fanzines for fifteen years. If anything, anime is contact the committee, but not what their response! copying me! response was as to why they asked who they I like to think that you saw the humour I need a cheap lawyer. did to draw that piece. From my end of things of the situation. It was rather droll, I thought. it was as simple as: I got an email asking for a I wrote “Fast on the Draw” rather in a drawing, and I did one. I have to guess here, hurry, as a throw-away comment to an on-line just as he did, but my assumption would be group I belong to. A little later I polished it up there was certainly no malice or anything in the a little because I thought it worth saving. But And Mr. Lloyd Penney! good candidates this year; it would be great if Maybe fandom is a gigantic support group, who March 19, 2010 they all could go. knows... The reason I don’t have many of the So true. I sometimes wish I could have run toys I had when I was a kid is that 1) I actually Dear Chris: for DUFF, especially since it’s right during took them out of the boxes and played with Now that the world has sobered up the Aussie Rules season, but alas, I made my them, and 2) I have two younger brothers who from St. Patrick’s, the last of the green beer choice! either destroyed my toys when I wasn’t looking, has been consumed, and the last unconscious The story of our lives...my mother or I was forced at some point under the guise body has stirred and stumbled away, the Irish threw out the few comics I’d been able to of being a big boy now to give my toys to my can try to get some pride back, and I can have afford, saying she thought I’d already read them, brothers with the promise of new toys for a look at the newest Drink Tanks, 242 and 243. and was done with them. Why do parents the bigger boy, which usually didn’t materialize. Nice covers on both...William Hartnall on 242 throw out things they don’t understand? Mine To me, that just teaches greed to all the kids and Patrick Troughton on 243. I wonder if any never understood why I might want to collect involved. When I got a little bigger and earned modern-day Doctor Who fans would know anything, and I know not what they thought some money through a couple of paper routes, who (ha, ha) they are? of my assorted collections...stamps, coins, I’d hide whatever I’d buy myself. I hated the idea Gotta love Hartnell. I’ve only seen clips of paperback books and records. I’ve even heard of being forced to give up my pride and joy to both Hartnell and Troughton, but they look that the desire or compulsion to collect a set my siblings, who’d have them in bits by at least like Dr. Who should look! of anything is a very mild form of mental illness. two weeks. Movies...I go to very few, but we did go My Mom still holds many, if not most, of the to see Alice in Wonderland in 3D. Tim Burton is comics from the years I collected. In fact, smokin’ up, and he’s not sharing. Alice’s second there are comics from the periods I was trip to Wonderland, or Underland, as we should reading in the early 1980s, the early 1990s be saying, is just as weird as the first, but the and the period from 1997 to 2007. I’m best part of course is Johnny Depp’s Mad getting a set of filing cabinets to hold them Hatter. The hair, the make-up, the hat, all great. so I can have them with me! I like how the Hatter is quite, quite English I would support the creation of a Best when calm and sane, but when he gets angry Website/Blog Hugo category, and keep Best and perhaps less sane, he’s verra, verra Scottish. Fanzine for fanzines until the paper fanzine Maybe a little Sassenach in him. or even the e-fanzine goes away. This will be a Still haven’t seen it, but I’m planning on while, but I think it may happen. Literacy rates taking Linda to see it. She wasn’t as into the are dropping everywhere, even in our own last movie we went to together (Sherlock literary genre. Holmes, which I LOVED!) so I need to See, I understand why folks don’t like the redeem myself. idea of Best Fanzine, I just think they’re Yvonne and I have done the voting-for- wrong. I’ve never heard an argument that DUFF thing. Not saying who, but we have done made sense to me, but I am often known to it. Once again, it was a pleasure to be not only think wrong. voters, but also nominators. There are lots of Taral sent me the loc he wrote to you on this issue, and on the furrycon in daytime work. Cinequest shows that while Toronto. It’s not like we have a tribal memory Twitter and Facebook are social media, nothing or anything, but even the best-known fans can is more social than a get-together over a drink. be forgotten in a generation or two. I would I hear that Canadian films don’t get nearly imagine furry fandom has changed, and current the distribution that Hollywood films get furries may not know Taral’s fine artwork, and up there. That seems sad because I’ve the that’s their loss. Taral might not recognize the Canadian films I’ve seen. fandom today based on new conventions like Football and college basketball are this one, and the relatively new people within treated as religions, yet you guys laugh at it. The only reason we know of fans who were Canadians because we’re crazy for hockey? As active in the 30s, 40s and 50s is because of the you say, Warren, different gods. Have a look various fanhistory books out there that keep at the build-up leading to the World Cup of their memory alive. I don’t think anyone will soccer in South Africa later this year. Now, write up our own exploits. there’s a true sports religion, with followers I tend to know old timers from talking to around the world. other old timers. Sadly, I’m not nearly as See, Hockey is weird. So is soccer. Any game well-read on the former generations as I that can end in a tie is weird, though with probably should be, the addition of a shoot-out, I am more into Have you got the stones to play it! curling? Just remember, Chris, it’s underhand, A proud Canadian tradition...you could not overhand. Give yourself a hernia that way. be famous elsewhere in the world, but almost Hurry hard! unknown at home. With the exception of those Got it! in Toronto who receive fanzines, no one here 243...That’s probably one of the most serious really knows what I do with all the writing I do. depictions of Pat Troughton I’ve seen. He’s I’ve been on the Ad Astra committee for about usually prancing about, playing on a tin whistle. 30 years now...give it two or three years, and Chris, what happened on page 2? It’s no one will know who I am. Seems to be a case mostly blank! of “What have you done lately?” Really? Did I mess up? I fully expect to be forgotten two minutes I’ve heard pf Puck Hogs, although I after I’m gone. haven’t seen it. A lot of Canadian films show And I am finished here. Chaos, panic and what they please without having to worry disorder, you know the rest. Many thanks...I am about neo-Puritan censors or powerful going to send this out directly, so good morning religious lobbies. And, we’ve got organizations to you, and have a great weekend! like the National Film Board of Canada to Yours, Lloyd Penney. promote them, too. the NFB’s Toronto office Shanks, Lloyd! is just a short streetcar ride away from my