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File 770: 152 March 2008 1 2 File 770: 152 1983, when members collated and mailed the whole thing while I was in Boston for IRS training. Now that’s hospitality. In 2002, Alan White celebrated the birth of my daughter, Sierra, by publishing and sending me File 770’s first color cover. Thank you! The zine has paced the changes in pub- lishing technology since 1978. My hand- crank mimeo lasted as long as it did with the help of a mimeo repairman located by Marty Cantor, who staved off the inevitable ‘til my Gestetner finally became more proficient at spewing ink than printing it. Then Gordon Garb did me a great favor by giving me his late father’s motorized mimeo equipment so File 770 could keep going. In the dawning age of computers I discov- ered how to cut stencils with a dot-matrix printer. The late Irene Danziger created File 770’s first true desktop publishing layouts in 1991 to take better advantage of the cheap photocopying Gavin Claypool clued me onto at CalTech. (It didn’t stay cheap for long. They must have worked the math.) Once I made the transition to Xerox, fa- nartists no longer had to take a deep breath before peeking at their art inside the latest Editorial Notes by Mike Glyer File 770 . This is the 71 st issue to feature art by Brad Foster. There are artists I have been Do you think you’re living in the Prime nearly every zine they get, not only this one. publishing since before this zine began, in- Timeline? Here’s proof you’re living in a Thank you subscribers, including the fans cluding Alan White, Taral, Grant Canfield, slice of alternate history. This is the 30 th still receiving File 770 that began as Austin Sheryl Birkhead and Bill Rotsler. anniversary issue of File 770 and, as every- in ’85 NASFiC bid supporters and sub- Diana, my wife, has been the muse and one knows, fannish newzines never last. scribed in order to ballot-stuff the File 770 sometimes conscience of File 770 (reading File 770 #1 came off the mimeograph in survey. I’m glad you stuck around: we had drafts and asking, “Did you really mean to January 1978. In 2008, I kicked off the 30 th fun, you guys ran a great con, and I can say insult this person?” Actually, I didn’t….) She anniversary celebration by scanning that there was one year I didn’t lose money on has been behind two big developments this issue for eFanzines promptly attracting a the zine (because I was still $25 ahead at the past year, the color cover on #150, and my fresh review by Chris Garcia and a brief loc end of 1983). new File770.com blog (her Christmas gifts to from Mike McInerney. There’s nothing to I have been lucky enough to publish every me included the domain name and the host- beat the energy that surrounds a newzine. type of material on my original wish list, ing service.) You are a jewel beyond price. Egoboo is better than royalties. from a Worldcon GoH’s speech (Race Mat- Warner’s FAPAzine chugged along for When Linda Bushyager was about to thews, 1985) to fanartist portfolios, and a decades. So did Tackett’s and the Coulsons’ retire Karass , the leading fannish newzine of chapter from a TAFF trip report (James Ba- genzines. Fred Patten’s APA-Lzine is still the mid-1970s, she encouraged me to take con granted that wish in 2005). appearing weekly after 44 years. Never a the baton. My interest was high, and has There also have been wonderful opportu- fannish newzine. If they did last, we could be stayed that way ever since, and I give the nities and surprises. Richard Bergeron gave celebrating the 35 th anniversary of my short- credit for that to everyone who has partici- me pre-publication sheets from the famous lived fannish newzine Organlegger which pated over the years. Willis issue of Warhoon to distribute in the lasted a few months in 1973 (more on this Thanks to the hundreds of you who have zine. File 770’s first 85 issues were mimeo- elsewhere). As it is, I’m very glad I got a sent news, articles, letters and art over the graphed -- #42 on luxuriant Twiltone paper second chance. years. Thanks to fans who devotedly LoC courtesy of a NESFA publishing party in available for news, artwork, Brad Foster: Cover, 8, 13, 40 arranged trades, or by Bill Rotsler: 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 14, 17, subscription: $8 for 5 issues, $15 21, 28, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47 for 10 issues, air mail rate is Terry Jeeves: 38, 39 $2.50. Chaz Boston Baden: 4 152 E-Mail: [email protected] Tim Kirk: 6 Bill Higgins: (photo) 11 Art Credits Alan Stewart: (photo) 19 File 770:152 is edited by Mike Grant Canfield: 30, 42, Bacover Steve Stiles: 4, 32, 34 Glyer at 705 Valley View Ave., Alan White: 3, 5, 10, 12, 29, 31 Stu Shiffman: 33, 36 Monrovia CA 91016. File 770 is Tim Marion: (photo) 7 (1974) March 2008 3 Thieves Go First Cabin Frank Denton discovered his cabin near Mt. Rainier had been broken into when he ar- rived to prepare it for a New Year’s gather- ing of friends. Someone using bolt cutters had sliced the Master lock off the back win- dow shutters to get in, leaving the curtains ominously blowing in the breeze. A number of appliances and lots of blankets were taken. Frank has published The Rogue Raven for many years, a name he also uses for his blog. I always remember him as the first person to ask me onto a convention program (at that same 1973 Westercon where Elst and I pubbed Organlegger ). Higgins Scores Landslide on Super Tuesday Illinois fan Bill Higgins became the envy of every big-name candidate in the Super Tues- day primaries when he polled 100% of the Democratic votes cast in Naperville’s 23 rd precinct. He was running for precinct com- mitteeman. Higgins can expect a call for advice from Illinois’ U.S. Senator Barack Obama, who polled merely 68% of the Na- perville Democratic vote. Also, the 204 votes News of Fandom for Higgins was 60 more than the precinct’s Republican voters cast for his counterpart. That’s an encouraging sign on the road to Tom Digby, the wildly inventive fanhu- cake with a little bride and groom on top November, for as Bill wrote in his blog, “The morist, originated the line Larry Niven used facing in opposite directions.) During the Democrats have, let us say, a lot of room for for the title of his popular story, “What Can story “Tom Findlay,” the character based on growth in Dupage County.” You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Digby, was revealed to be an alien — and to The fan who styles himself “W. Skeffing- Covers?” Tuckerized members of the Los this day LASFSians haven’t entirely ruled ton Higgins” (when sharing deep thoughts Angeles Science Fantasy Society are fea- out that explanation. online) answered the call of the Naperville tured in a romp that begins at a fictional LASFS holds a gift exchange during the Township Democratic Organization’s re- version of the 1968 party where Bruce Pelz Christmas season. It’s always leavened with cruitment drive. He contributed to the largest and Dian (now Crayne) celebrated the final- gag gifts. I got the Flatbed Mimeo one year. I increase of any township in the county -- ity of their divorce. (Yes, there really was a still have on my bookshelf one of the many from 6 precinct committeemen in 2006 to 25 copies of Zotz! that cycled through the in 2008. exchange. Higgins will be expected to walk the pre- Another traditional gag gift I held cinct, canvass the voters, pass out informa- for a year was the genuine chocolate- tion on the party’s candidates, encourage covered manhole cover. The real-life people to register to vote, and find out on version was made by chocolate- election day who hasn’t voted yet so calls coating a pancake-sized steel lid from can be made to get out the vote. a natural gas main, rather than a full- Bill is a well-known panelist at Midwest sized manhole cover. The winner was conventions who often speaks about science, supposed to stash it in his or her spaceflight and planetary exploration. Bill freezer and put it back into the next joined Fermilab in 1978, famed for its giant year’s exchange. Except, it never re- accelerators and particle beams, to work on appeared in the 2007 gift exchange. issues including radiation safety. His fanac “This is like the swallows deciding covers the spectrum: fanzines, filksinging, not to visit Capistrano this year,” art, conrunning. wrote Milt Stevens in his appeal to readers of the LASFS newzine De Be on the Lookout Profundis. “It’s very disturbing. Sev- for a Chocolate-Covered eral fans are going to have anxiety Manhole Cover attacks if it doesn’t return. So check the clutter around your residence pod After almost 40 years there’s something new Bill Higgins strikes a stfnal pose in just in case you have the Chocolate to say about a chocolate-covered manhole this photo from the 2007 Moonbase Con- Covered Manhole Cover. If you do, cover. It’s missing. Fusion website. He was their Fan GoH. please give it back.” 4 File 770: 152 Samaritan Medal: (L) Obverse; (M) Reverse.
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