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Aussie Transpacific April 2013 Bill Wright’S Campaign Zine in His Quest to Be the DUFF 2013 Laureate at Lonestarcon 3 April 2013 Aussie Transpacific Bill Wright’s campaign zine in his quest to be the DUFF 2013 laureate at LoneStarCon 3. (the 71st Worldcon in San Antonio, Texas, on Aug 29 to Sep 2, 2013) th Vote for Bill before voting closes on June 10 , 2013 Bill Wright in his prime at Age 32. The occasion This is a more recent photograph of Bill Wright taken was the 8th Australian Science Fiction Convention in October 2011 at a dinner with graphic artist Dick held In the MSFC club rooms at Somerset Place, ‘Ditmar’ Jenssen and friends at the Rosstown Hotel the first (and only) Aussie Natcon Bill ever ran. in the Melbourne (Australia) suburb of Carnegie. Photographs are courtesy of Mervyn and Helena Binns, respectively. What is DUFF? The Down Under Fan Fund (DUFF) is a permanent fan fund set up in 1972 to foster ties between science fiction communities in North America and Australia. Supported by contributions from all over the world, DUFF sends a delegate from North America to Australia–New Zealand, or the other way, in alternating years, attending the World Science Fiction Convention if it is on the receiving side, otherwise the national convention, with any further fannish travel that can be managed, meeting fans, making friends, radiating goodwill, publishing a trip report, and becoming the DUFF Administrator in turn until the next cycle on the delegate’s home side. Trip reports are sold to support the Fund. DUFF is a worthy fan charity. Please contribute and register your vote. In 2013, the race is South to North, to send an Australasian delegate to LoneStarCon 3, the 71st Worldcon in San Antonio, Texas, on Aug 29-Sep 2, 2013. Nominations were accepted until 31st March 2013. To be eligible candidates had to have three ANZ and two North American nominators, to provide a written platform, and to contribute a donation of at least $25 (AU$, NZ$, US$ or C$). Voting closes 31 May 2013. The winner will be the DUFF laureate representing the Australian & New Zealand SF communities at LoneStarCon 3. The Ballot Paper was available for download from the Internet from late April, 2013 – see page 3 for details. Please note that voting will close on June 10th, 2012. The winner will be announced in June 2013 by the administrators: John Hertz David Cake North America and Australia-New Zealand 2 My Country Tim Train is a pub poet who loudly declaims his verses at inner-suburban watering holes in Melbourne, Australia, to the accompaniment of good-natured applause from drinkers. His blog: Will Type For Food is how he wants the rest of the world to see him. The real Tim is a youthful savant of formidable intellect who is so wise as to fall at the feet of Bruce Gillespie, taking upon himself the aspect of Disciple. His fanzine, ‘Badger’s Dozen’, is put together and distributed only at the Sticky Institute, a fanzine production factory partly funded by the government and located in a subway under Flinders Street railway station. On learning I was standing for DUFF 2013, Tim delivered himself of this campaign poem… Vote for Bill! He's all Wright! He's totally not bad! If you don't then others will And you will WISH you had! Then Tim’s muse fell on him as he contemplated alpha qualities that fit Bill Wright for the job of representing Antipodean science fiction fans to a global audience of like minded aficionados in the shadow of the Alamo… In all humility O when I am Australian of the year For when I am Australian of the year I'll rub my trophy bright for hours and hours, I'll laminate my lamingtons* all day Grow sprays of bottlebrush and wattle-flowers And serve them on a lacquered redgum tray In jars made out of cans of Fosters Beer. Until my point is absolutely clear – O when I am Australian of the year And when I am Australian of the year I'll hang a golden sausage on the wall, I'll have the corpse of Bradman† waxed - and buffed - And diamante lambchops in the hall, And with the best of Aussie opals stuffed And polished Chiko Rolls - there - there - and here. And every morning, shed a humble tear - O when I am Australian of the year And when night gathers in, and sleep draws near, Then Liberal and Labor will strike a truce, In velvet billows of red, white, and blue, And everyone will call their babies Bruce I'll dream of potoroosᶲ. That's what I'll do And Aussies over all the world will cheer. O, when I am Australian of the year, O when I am Australian of the year. * Lamingtons are iconic Australian cakes invented by the chief confectioner of Lord Lamington, governor of Queensland in the early 20th century. † Sir Donald Bradman (1908-2001) was an Aussie cricketer whose Test batting average of 99.94 is, statistically, the best achievement in any sport. ᶲ Potoroos are kangaroo/rat-like marsupials the size of a rabbit, an endangered species once common in Australia now threatened by habitat loss. Alpha Chook Australian slang is wonderfully robust, but even iconic Aussie comedian Barry Humphries has succeeded only marginally in reviving bonzer, cobber, and stone the crows. Chook, dunny, and bloke seem to have an enduring appeal, though. Tucker and drongo live on in the bush, but clobber is looking a bit dicey. All red- blooded fans should use clobber whenever and wherever possible, and educate ignorant youngsters as to its suitability for articulation as a jokey alternative to clothes. Steel Sheila was Iron Outlaw’s sidekick in a 1960s comic strip in the Brisbane Courier Mail. And, as Aussie insults go, this example from one of Humphries’ viewpoint characters, Bazza McKenzie, isn’t bad… “May all your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down, you cow!” With that introduction, here is Tim Train’s versical* autobiography of the alpha chicken… I am mighty Alpha Chicken! O'er nation's puny rooftops I am mighty Alpha Chicken! I have mighty chicken brood! Ye shall hear my mighty cluck - I say to my ladies now, I win over them with mighty bits So mighty and so horrible 'Wouldst thou, mightst thou have me Of bread and biscuit food! That it might scare off a duck! Thy very mighty very flighty VERY ALPHA FOWL?' * versical: a neologism incorporating elements of verse and farce. Cheers, Tim 3 My Platform Bill Wright joined fandom in the 1950s and is a lifetime member of the Melbourne SF Club, founder member of Anzapa, founder member of the Nova Mob (Melbourne's SF discussion group) and was secretary of Aussiecon, the 33rd Worldcon in Melbourne in 1975. He also organised the Australian side of the Bring Bruce Bayside Fan Fund in 2004. His fanzine Interstellar Ramjet Scoop is now an e-zine on eFanzines. Currently he does good work for the Australian Science Fiction Foundation. He will be an able representative of the Australasian science fiction community at Worldcon and will write a ripper of a trip report. My nominators ANZ nominators: Mervyn Binns, Dick ‘Ditmar’ Jenssen and Bruce Gillespie North American nominators: Murray Moore (Canada) and John Purcell (U.S.) Why you should vote Fan Funds are worthy fan charities, and DUFF especially so because of the huge distance represented by the Pacific Ocean between continental Australia and continental North America. The majority of fans in the South never get to see their Northern counterparts, and vice versa, so it’s good to have a system in operation whereby, once every two years, they are visited by an individual who represents the very best its fan community has to offer. But the trip costs money. That is why you should take the trouble to vote for the candidate of your choice, contributing at least the small minimum donation asked for on the ballot form. How you can vote When voting commences, you may obtain a ballot form in a number of ways… by writing to, e-mailing or phoning one of the a DUFF administrators, either North America DUFF Administrator Australia-New Zealand DUFF Administrator John Hertz David Cake 236 S. Coronado St. #409 6 Florence Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90057 USA Nedlands, WA 6009 Australia Phone: (213) 384 6622 Phone: 04 1207 3082 (mobile) E-mail: [email protected] by downloading an entry form from: http://www.difference.com.au/fandom/duff2013.pdf or http://www.difference.com.au/fandom/duff2013.rtf (Australia/New Zealand) or http://ozfanfunds.com/duff/2013duffballot.pdf or http://ozfanfunds.com/duff/2013duffballot.rtf (North America, Europe, etc.) See the ballot form for voting and payment processes. Voting closes on Monday June 10, 2013. The winner will be announced in June 2013 by the administrators named above. Why you should consider voting for me I have been involved in science fiction fan activities for over fifty years and believe I can ‘span the generation gap’ so as to represent all Australian and New Zealand fans at the World Science Fiction Society meeting at LoneStarCon 3 in San Antonio, Texas, on Aug 29 to Sep 2, 2013. If you want a global perspective on science fiction fandom, then I’m your man. For further details, see over leaf.../ 4 My achievements A fringe fan in the 1950s, I became active in the Melbourne Science Fiction Club (MSFC) in the early 1960s, falling under the influence of the likes of John Foyster, Dick ‘Ditmar’ Jenssen, Mervyn Binns, Paul Stevens, Lee Harding and Tony Thomas.
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