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File 770: 149 File770:149March 2007 1 2 File 770: 149 File 770:149 is edited by Art Credits Mike Glyer at 705 Valley Grant Canfield: Cover, Bacover, View Ave., Monrovia CA 17, 24 91016. File 770 is Sierra Glyer: 2 available for news, Alan White: 2, 3, 5, 12 artwork, arranged trades, Brad Foster: 2, 21, 25, 27 or by subscription: $8 for Bill Rotsler: 5,8,9,11,12,14, 26 5 issues, $15 for 10 Taral: 6, 19, 20, 22, 28 issues, air mail rate is Keith Stokes: (photos) 13 $2.50. Bob Madle: (photos) 10 Telephone: (626) 305- Richard Lynch: (photo) 11 1004 Nancy-Lou Patterson: 15 9 E-Mail: Theresa Pridemore: 149 [email protected] (photo) 16 Editorial Notes by Mike Glyer four, and her early efforts to make Changes of Address up her own sounded like this: “Knock-knock.” Eric Lindsay, E-mail: I say, “Who’s there?” [email protected] “Mister Potatohead.” Bjo Trimble, E-mail: [email protected] “Mister Potatohead who ?” Art Widner, 35501 S. Hwy 1, Unit 122, “Movie!” Gualala, CA 95445-5122 Uproarious laughter – conta- gious, so I laughed just as loud as Eric Lindsay: “ Oh yes, my email address if it really had been the great joke has changed again, thanks to spammers (to she thought it was. the current year).” The punchline of her next knock-knock joke was, Art Widner: “Didnt i give U my new snail “Chicken!” Which quickly re- mail address in LA at Worldcon? vealed that she understood the “Dont care abt junk mail, but hope i ha- joke to be going through the vent lost too many fanzines that i havent herd knock-knock formula, then shout- from in a cupl of yrs, that just got tost in the ing a random noun with glee. spam pile.” Diana’s Big Year: Diana’s book is out, cer- Well, she made me laugh. tainly the biggest news this household is I do look forward to the day when Sierra likely to have this year. Later in this issue will get my jokes, although I guess by the (page 12) I tell how hard it was to wait! And time that happens I won’t be reading Straw- on the following page Tom Veal supplies a berry Shortcake storybooks to my 5-year-old. bit more objective view of things in the first Everything the namesake character owns published review of her book. (Thank you, looks like a strawberry, or is red with green Tom.) The appearance of the book kicks off specks and I was pointing out examples to a huge year for Diana’s scholarship, with two my daughter. The strawberry-shaped table. Inklings-related journal articles scheduled to The strawberry-pattern wallpaper. The straw- appear, and the launch of her website berry alarm clock... www.theplaceofthelion.com Rotsler Award: John Hertz told me that The Sierra Comedy Hour: And our when Maureen Kincaid Speller completed other family headline is: Sierra Grace turned her term as a Rotsler Award judge she de- five years old in February. We needed three cided not to continue. We are very pleased parties to fully celebrate. that Claire Brialey agreed to let us nominate At this age Sierra loves jokes. When an her to complete the panel and I’m sure SCIFI issue of Clubhouse Jr. comes in she has me will quickly confirm her selection. read its jokes to her, all sent in by the chil- Over the years the award has been re- dren who read the magazine. Quite a few are markably free of politics, but selecting puns and the wordplay often goes over the Alexis Gilliland last year encouraged some head of a five-year-old. She always appreci- folks on both sides of WSFA’s difficulties to ates a good knock-knock joke, though. look for a political message in our choice. So Sierra discovered knock-knock jokes I will now reveal our message: Alexis draws about a year ago when she had just turned funny cartoons! End of story. March 2007 3 FAAn Awards The 2007 Fanzine Activity Achievement (FAAn) Awards were presented on February 11 at Corflu Quire in Austin, TX. The win- ners are: Best Fanzine: Banana Wings Best Fan Writer: Claire Brialey Best Fan Artist: Dan Steffan Best Letterhack (a.k.a. Harry Warner Memorial Award): Lloyd Penney Best New Fan: Teresa Cochran Full voting statistics have been posted at http://efanzines.com/Corflu24/FAAnVotes20 07.pdf I wondered how many people had voted and to what degree the winners dominated their categories. Since the published tally didn’t foot its columns with vote totals I went ahead and manually counted the 47 names on the voter list and the 49 first-place votes they cast for Best Fanzine (hey I’m not auditing the votes, it is what it is). Remember that FAAn voters are asked to rank their top three choices, and a first place vote is worth five points, a second place worth three, and a third place worth one. Of course, the weighted rankings allow the FAAns to be more nearly governed by con- News of Fandom sensus without the burdensome mechanics of News of Fandom an automatic runoff system (like the Hugos use) that would make ballot counting as A final note: I abandoned my plan to Vegas Fandom Weekly #93 , “and me (Arnie) complicated as a LASFS Board of Directors report that Rotsler had outpolled the only as her Left-hand Man. ‘We’re not much on election and even less fun. other dead fanartist on the list when further titles,’ Joyce admitted as she gazed benignly I’ve listed everybody who received at research revealed that the other fellow isn’t upon me from her newly erected Throne.’“ least five first-place votes in the FAAns to dead. Never mind. Joyce is presently offering attending illustrate two observations about the out- memberships for $50 (£30 for UK fans), come. supporting memberships for $20. Funds can Best Fanzine: Banana Wings (13), Pixel Next: Corflu Silver Fanzine fans invented a convention of their be sent via PayPal to Joyce Marie Katz; E- (7), Vegas Fandom Weekly (6), Chunga (5). mail: [email protected]. Rate increases Best Fan Writer: Claire Brialey (8), own in 1984 and named it Corflu. Any fan- zine publisher back then recognized the fan- have yet to be determined and will depend Chris Garcia (5) upon the hotel deal she makes. Best Fan Artist: Dan Steffan (10), Brad nish word for correction fluid, a word evoca- tive of the rich blue color and intoxicating A post on the Corflu LiveJournal hints the Foster (7), Alan White (5) next several editions of the con also will Best Letterhack: Robert Lichtman (11), smell of the potion used to cover mistakes on mimeograph stencils. Today the word still is revisit past glories -- in Seattle, the United Lloyd Penney (7) Kingdom and in the Silicon Valley/San Fran- Best New Fan: Teresa Cochran (6) iconic, a perfect choice as a convention name with the extra advantage that it can be re- cisco area (under the aegis of Chris Garcia.) Weighted voting for second and third places played a crucial role in two FAAn peated in publilc, unlike other words fans use categories. In the Best Fan Writer category when they make typos. Lloyd’s Golden Tonsils Chris Garcia was the fan receiving the sec- Now that Corflu has been held 24 times it Lloyd Penney may have needed a bit of cor- ond-highest number of first place votes, yet must be admitted one implication of the title rective eye surgery but his voice is golden he finished fourth in the runoff. Then, in the isn’t true. When you corflu something more and more in demand than ever: Best Letterhack category Lloyd Penney won than once it means you’ve made quite a “ Bastards of Kirk should already be out the runoff despite Robert Lichtman’s lead in mess. Corflu the convention has proved the on line, I believe. I can't seem to get my own first-place votes, 11 to 7, because Lloyd reverse is true, crowning with success return copy of it, but I'll keep trying. My own voice scored points from a lot more second-place trips to favorite fan communities -- four work career keeps going... I had to give up votes, 9 to 2. This pattern suggests people times in Northern California, twice in Seat- on Transit , a student production at Ryerson, vote candidly and don’t leave off strong tle, twice in Madison. because of the eye operation, and post- second-place contenders in order to help Las Vegas will have its third turn when production on The Nastiworths , another Ry- their first-place choices. Because of that the Corflu Silver is held there next year, proba- erson student production, is halfway done. In FAAns seem to do exactly what they are bly in April. The silver anniversary event about a week or so, I go for a full-day semi- designed to do, measure the depth of com- will be chaired by Joyce Katz. nar on voice work through a company in munity interest in giving the award to a per- “She has appointed James Taylor as her Toronto called VoiceWorx, and they'll give son or zine. Right-hand Man.” reported Arnie Katz in all who take the course tips and techniques 4 File 770: 149 Really Late Katrina News didn’t find any bodies. It’s still worth mentioning that New Or- “You look inside the house, and you leans fan Dr.
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