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The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 3 1 Volume 9, Issue 3 August 2009 2 The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 3 The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 3 3 CONTENTS enclosed by brackets [ like this ]. Those are Buff’s Broadside 3 comments from the editor, Warren Buff, unless Profile: Kelly Lockhart, by Regina Kirby 4 otherwise noted. On Winning My Rebel Award, by Randy Cleary 4 Web Links Convention Reports, by Tom Feller 5 The SFC web site is: 9689 Miles to Louisville, by Steve & Sue Francis 7 http://www.southernfandom.com Convention Calendar, by M. Lee Rogers 13 Convention listings are available on the Southern Annotated Fanzine Listings, by Tom Feller 14 Fandom Resource Guide: http://www.scenic- The Rise & Fall of Lois Lane, pt. 2, by Jeff 16 city.com/sfrg Thompson Southern Fandom Classic Yahoo! Group: Letters of Comment, by the readers 17 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthernFandomCla ssic/ Policies The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin Ad Rates Volume 9, Number 2, September 2008, is the Type Full Page Half Page ¼ official publication of the Southern Fandom Page Confederation (SFC), a not-for-profit literary Fan $40.00 $20.00 $10.00 organization and information clearinghouse Pro $80.00 $40.00 $20.00 dedicated to the service of Southern Science Fiction and Fantasy Fandom. This issue of the Bulletin is SFC Handbooks edited by Warren Buff and is published at least This amazing 196 page tome of Southern Fannish three times per year. Membership in the SFC is $15 lore, edited by T. K. F. W. Reinhardt, is now annually, running from DeepSouthCon to available to all comers for $5, plus a $2 shipping DeepSouthCon. A club or convention membership and handling charge if we have to mail it. The is $50 annually. Donations are welcome. All Handbook is also available online, thanks to the checks should be made payable to the Southern efforts of Samuel Smith, at Fandom Confederation. The Bulletin is also www.smithuel.net/sfcbh/. The SFC Handbook available for trades, published contributions, and Errata page is: letters of comment. As we are switching from bulk www.smithuel.net/sfchb/hberrata.html . mailing to first class, I will be trimming the mailing list at the end of the year. I'll give y'all several more SFC Patches reminders before I start trimming, though. These snazzy color SFC Patches are only $5 plus $1 Permission is granted to reprint all articles, lists, and shipping and handling fee if we have to mail it. flyers so long as the author and the Bulletin are credited. All art is copyrighted by the artist, unless Art Credits otherwise specified. An exception is granted in the Cover: Alan White, “Robert Mouse Lee” case of art that appears in a convention flyer. The editor encourages submission of lengthy written Officers Contact Information: material and art covers and illos. Contributions and President Warren Buff, 2412 F Still Forest Pl, LoCs via electronic means are highly desirable. If Raleigh, NC 27607; [email protected] you wish to use the Internet, you may send the Vice-President Mike Rogers, article as electronic mail or an attachment. If you [email protected] wish to send the editor computer media, 3.5 Secretary Tom Feller, PO Box 140937, Nashville, floppies, CD and DVD-ROMS are acceptable. IBM TN 37214-0937; [email protected] ; compatible file formats are acceptable. Media will http://homtetown.aol.com/tomfeller be returned if requested. The Bulletin is laid out in Treasurer Janet Hopkins, 308 Dunbar Cave Rd, OpenOffice on a Pentium III based PC. Ink and Clarksville, TN 37043; [email protected] typewritten submissions are also graciously accepted. If youre not sure what all this means, get Buff's Broadside in touch to work out a solution. Throughout the Alright, I know, I’ve been remiss. It’s been Bulletin, you will find comments in italics and eleven months since I’ve given y’all anything in 4 The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 3 print. I’ve also been a total slacker at getting my people. Kelly and I have what people refer to as SFPA zines in on time. On the plus side, I did ‘history’. John (Ringo) says that we need to stop manage to put out seven issues of the online-only talking about how ‘we use to hate each other’ SFC Update , which I hope y’all will check out at because it has not been that way since he has know www.efanzines.com if you don’t already get it. I’d us. I suppose we have both mellowed over time and meant to put this out before Worldcon, but it’s there is something to say about surviving and looking like it will only make it to the internet staying around fandom for over 20 years. before I go, with the print version following in the What is there to say about Kelly? Kelly is a next week. My time has been eaten by my work on familiar face to conventions. He is tall, lanky, with the Raleigh in 2010 NASFiC bid, which will be wiry looking reddish hair that is usually pulled back voted on in Montreal at Anticipation. I’m crossing in a ponytail. He has a penchant for wearing strange my fingers. Also at Anticipation, we’ll learn the costumes at conventions; some have become a bit location of the Texas in 2013 Worldcon bid. I’m infamous. And Kelly can and will talk on almost planning to give them my support, and hope y’all any subject with almost anyone at almost any time. will consider helping bring the Worldcon back to This fact will be important later in this article. Texas. Among his many fandom activities, he co- Now, for some DSC news. We decided it founded a Worldcon bid, is a member of the was a good idea to look into getting some new t- Raleigh 2010 NASFiC bid, and has served on a shirts, so we’ll be opening up a call for artwork number of convention committees over the past 20 shortly. A committee composed of myself, Gary years. Kelly has also spent the past nineteen years Robe, and one other member (my memory’s producing and hosting the very popular Robot slipping, and I don’t have the minutes in front of Battles events around the country. In his spare time me) will be taking care of the details, and we plan to he is an active screenwriter, a popular local hold a contest, by vote of the membership, for the musician, a sometime radio disc jockey and talk new artwork. If you’re interested in submitting radio host. In the professional world he spends his something, now’s probably the time to start working work days as the News Editor for The Pulse, on it. Please pass the word of this along, and we’ll Chattanooga's leading alt-weekly newspaper. set a deadline of December 31, 2009 for After the Stellarcon committee won the bid submissions, which should give us time to hold a to host the 46 th DeepSouthCon, we of course vote and get them produced before the next starting talking about who should receive the Rebel DeepSouthCon – ConCarolinas, in early July. Go and Phoenix Awards. Most of that talking began in ahead and send submissions to me via email or the earnest at the 2007 Stellarcon, where quite a few post. We’ll definitely run them in the SFC Update , people were poled, including Kelly. As I said when and possibly here, if I can get an issue out around I presented the award, when Kelly’s name was the right time. If not, maybe we’ll post them on the brought up to me, I had four words. Ten years SFC website instead. before that time, those words would have been ‘No We’ve got a great issue planned this time, Way in Hell’ or ‘Over My Dead Body’; but at this with articles on our two latest Rebel winners, Kelly point in time, those words were ‘Southern Fandom Lockhart and Randy B. Cleary, con-reports for three Resource Guide’. To me it met the very definition cons from Tom Feller, an article from Steve and of what the award was suppose to be for: fannish Sue Francis recounting their road-trip to Worldcon activities that have contributed to Southern Fandom last year, a few entries on the convention calendar in a positive way. courtesy of Mike Rogers, fanzine listings by Tom The Southern Fandom Resource Guide is a Feller, the conclusion of Jeff Thompson’s article on website that Kelly started in 1995 and to quote the Lois Lane, and a great big column of letters from homepage is ‘a comprehensive listing of Science y’all, our readers. Enjoy! Fiction, Fantasy, Gaming, Comics, Anime and Pop Culture conventions held in the Southeastern United Profile: Kelly Lockhart States’. It has links to all the conventions listed, as By Regina Kirby well as the occasional ‘featured con’ that gives info on a convention that is coming up, usually one that The fact that I am writing this article and Kelly is attending or has attended in the past. It also that I in fact presented Kelly Lockhart the 2008 has a message forum for people to talk about Rebel Award at Stellarcon will surprise some conventions and is used for many to coordinate their The Southern Fandom Confederation Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 3 5 attendance (ride and hotel expense sharing is a supper and to attend the Coldplay concert that popular topic).
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