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CAPTAIN FLASHBACK A fanzine composed for the 400th distribution of the Wait for the Bus: Turbo-Charged Party-Animal Amateur Press Association, from the joint membership of Andy The Sanguine Story Hooper and Carrie Root, residing at 11032 30th Ave. of Light Aviation NE Seattle, WA 98125. E-mail Andy at and Popular Music [email protected], and you may reach Carrie at [email protected]. This is a Drag Bunt Press Carrie and I have been watching Ken Burns’ Production, completed on 10/20/2019. latest documentary series on PBS, Country Music. It has been as fascinating and moving as CAPTAIN FLASHBACK is devoted to old the very best of Burns’ previous work, and fanzines, monster movies, garage bands and other somehow more effectively paced than most of his fascinating phenomena of the 20th Century. All films. We have found each of the chapters so written material by Andy Hooper unless indicated. engrossing that their endings come before we expect them. And this despite the fact that each Contents of Issue #11: of the first three segments ends with the death of Page 1: Wait for the Bus: The Sanguine Story of a Country music pioneer – Jimmie Rodgers at Light Aviation and Popular Music the end of part one, Hank Williams at the Page 2: Comments on Turbo-Apa #399 conclusion of chapter two, and the tragic end of Page 6: A Key to Interlineations in Issue #10 Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Page 6: Lettercoltrains Copas at the end of chapter three. Page 18: I Remember Entropy Department: Selections by Andy Young, Harlan Ellison, The deaths of Rodgers and Williams were not Ed Wood and Dean McLaughlin much of a surprise – Rodgers had tuberculosis, Page 19: Fanmail from Some Flounder: Letters of and Williams suffered from a raft of physical Comment on CAPTAIN FLASHBACK issues and addictions – but the small plane crash Page 20: Top Fanzine Auction Prices in 2019 that killed Cline, Copas and Hawkshaw was a terrible shock. The country music community was still very small, and almost everyone in it had a personal relationship with Patsy Cline. And while plenty of people within that community would come to an early end, nothing has ever shaken it as thoroughly as losing Cline. There are many parallels between her death, and the loss of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson in the February 1959 crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, although none of those three had the stature in rock and roll that Cline had within country music. If Elvis had been on board instead of Buddy, that would be a closer match. On the other hand, listening to the details of the Cline crash, I could not help but mentally recall all the different stories of calamity and disaster that are associated with Monument to Buddy Holly, Clear Lake, Iowa. popular musicians and small aircraft. [Continued on Page 7] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue #11, October 2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sure, sure…and why don’t we just burn Galileo at the stake for saying the sun is round? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailing Comments on Turbo-Apa #399: AoP was genuinely incapable of making any pursuit of the AoNV after the engagement, who Cover (Jeanne Gomoll): An image both really won the fight? comically delightful and slightly poignant, as the Tiptree Award went into the dustbin of OCCAM’S WHISKERS, Georgie Schnobrich: history the same month that we had our 6th Fandom is forever presenting me with curious peaceful regime change in the history of the coincidences, and you and Greg took your trip to Turbo=Apa. Jim has already shown he is going Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic at the to be an active OE and will wield the power same time that I was working to summarize my suggested by that crown with celerity and research on William Sykora, one of the three wisdom. And a bouquet for Hope and Karl, as fans in charge of the first World SF Convention depicted on the back cover, is only appropriate; in 1939. Both sides of Sykora’s family were they kept the apa going for 15 years! Czechs and he held early conventions and many fan club meetings at the Bohemian Hall in AN WISCONZINE, Greg Rihn: Your trip Queens. That institution is still a center of Czech reports are always highly detailed, but stop short cultural life in America, and has a brass plaque of exhaustion; on the other hand, you and commemorating a visit by President Vaclav Georgie have a capacity for day and night Havel. activity which I believe Carrie and I have now lost. Museum walking all day, followed by a People that open their homes as the site of an cabaret at night – we would be challenged. But ongoing salon are always of interest to me, and you communicated some of the enormity of surely not all of them are eventually punished opportunity which Berlin presents, and how for their hospitality. Not all of them. Next rational mass transit makes everything work month, the reprint section will include a piece better, for tourists and residents. Here in North by Ted Pauls describing events during the 1970 Seattle, the light rail will be within just a mile Lunacon, including a Saturday evening party at or so of us in another, um, two years…. Lin Carter’s apartment. The Carters’ place was a frequent meeting site for a certain faction of We have been talking about the Battle of New York fandom – for there is always a certain Antietam and have devolved on the question of faction of New York fandom – and they were whether McClellan’s dilatory pursuit after the apparently rather generous hosts. It would be battle lessened or invalidated the Union victory. fun to come up with a kind of database of I have, at times, apologized for George Brinton fannish parties, both historic and ongoing, if McClellan; I have been willing to overlook his such does not already exist. insubordination, his gullibility, and his pursuit of the Democratic nomination to oppose Lincoln SONOVA QUARK, Steven Vincent Johnson: I – and emancipation – in the 1864 Presidential enjoyed your investigation of the Flying Spider campaign. The fervor with which the defeated Invasion on the outside of your house. One Army of the Potomac greeted his appointment to wonders how many reports of aerial command them, as if he were the second coming phenomenon can actually be explained as cases of Christ – twice! – makes one long to find some of poor depth-perception? Our season of large reason that their faith in him was justified. But spiders will often persist into mid-November, beyond that charisma, he seems to have had before we have a significant frost that stops both relatively few military virtues. He drew up them and their prey. Birds get quite a few of complicated plans, then labored to execute them them including the hummingbird who is the at such length that the enemy always had ample unquestioned master of everything on our deck. time to reply. The failure to detail even a cavalry I’m glad to read that you enjoyed the reprint of brigade to maintain contact with Lee’s army as it “William Rotsler, Manhunter.” Bill had a lot of painfully crossed the Potomac seems stories like that, tales of custom motorcycles, inexcusable. Fresh troops arrived from the east exotic models, larcenous surfers, Hollywood in the two days after the fighting – they did Boulevard creatures, hot rodders, karate men nothing but participate in graveyard details and and diehard beatniks of both sexes. On the loot through the former rebel camps. So, if the handful of occasions at which I got to hang out 2 with him, these tales were constantly issuing on feeling that the change indicts the judgment from his lips, while he produced cartoon after of Pat Murphy and the founding mothers of the cartoon with his thick black felt tips, and when award. The second is that Tiptree’s work and hotel china was available, Sharpies. Sadly, only career so perfectly expressed what the award was a handful of these anecdotes were ever written about that throwing that away is a tragedy. And down and entered into the fannish record, so it ultimately, the process struck me as being just as was a treat to find a real “Rotsler Story” in, of all self-serving as any feud in fandom, and echoes of things, a Rotsler fanzine. Will Sykora and Don Wollheim stumbled around in my head, with Disability Activism THINGS THAT BEGIN WITH T, Jim Hudson taking the place of Michelism. & Diane Martin: Your summary of the issues around the changes to the Tiptree award was At the same time, the people doing the work now very concise, and of course, you have a better have the right to determine what they are grip on all the practical considerations involved working for, and if that requires changing the than anyone else in the community. I’m curious name, whaddaya gonna do? The Space Babe how effective the name change will actually be – abides. how many will begin saying “The Otherwise ALPHABET OBSESSION, Jae Leslie Adams: I Award,” as opposed to “The-Tiptree-That-Was.” was entertained by the idea of your “Reverse Anyway, your patience is exemplary. Advent” food bank calendar – of course a can of Sorry as always to read about the challenges to green beans on Christmas Eve might be very Diane’s health, and all the time spent in clinics useful, especially if one has mushroom soup and and emergency rooms. Your theatrical marathon some onions to crisp for the top.