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/ The twice-monthly news for the . Issue 17 February 15, 2006 Editors: Jean Martin, Chris Garcia, Jack Avery email: [email protected] Copy Editor: David Moyce

TOC Editorial...... Chris Garcia ...... 2 ...... Adam Riggs ...... 4-5 Scott Sigler...... Diane Rooney...... 6-7 Anime LA ...... Andy Trembley ...... Photography ImageCraft.com...... 8-10 BlogWatch ...... Chris Garcia ...... 11 BASFA 811 Minutes ...... 12 BASFA 812 Minutes ...... 13 Calendar ...... Jack Avery...... 14-32

Science Fiction San Francisco is released on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. All issues can be found at www.efanzines.com All articles and photos are copyright 2006 by the original creators. Used with permission. Science Fiction/San Francisco is a Backnumbers Press zine. Editorial

Can you feel that, the tingle in the air like Kevin Standlee, Mike Miyake and or so on the table and they’d vanish! I gave that feels slightly more like a metaphysical Ken Patterson, as well as folks I seldom some to staff writers like Diane Rooney and Van DeGraaf generator than anything see outside of Cinequest. It’s a rare event my delightful co-editor Jean Martin, who else? I can tell you what it is, it’s Con where people of all kinds, comic and SF sadly I only got to see very briefly. We were Season. That’s right, the season of the and movie geeks, can all come together and hoping to go for lunch together on Sunday, con has begun with WonderCon this past find wonderful things. but sadly Diane and I found each other, but weekend. Between now and Memorial In addition to them, I got some talk time we couldn’t find Jean, Dr. Noe or any of the Day, when BayCon starts the summer con with Mr. Lobo, host of Cinema Insomnia, others, so we ended up going to lunch with season, the BArea will host cons as varied and Bob Wilkens and John Stanley, the the always enlightening SF historian Brad as Dundracon and Pantheacon, the World legendary hosts of KTVU’s Creature Lyau. We had a great talk about science Horror Convention to the filk happening Features. I ran into Chase Masterson, a fiction, , pulps, comics, history, Consonance. It’s all in the coming months, BayCon favorite who remembered my religion, Ph.D. programs and so much and for many I’d imagine their year started name! I also talked to people as diverse as more around that Metreon food court with FurCon (which we’re lucky to have a filmmakers and comedians Lon Lopez, Sean table. It was a good time, though it would review of in this issue), but for me, I gotta Becker and Mike Florez all the way through have been really nice if we’d gotten a chance wait until WonderCon. to Loyd Auerback, paranormal investigator to hang with the rest of the SF/SF crew. And I had a ball. and Travel Channel Friday night regular. I believe that Dr. Noe and Jean won Because even thought there are There were comics people I talked to, like a prize at the Masquarade as well for indy comics to be bought (and if you Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows) and Raphael their performance of “Running from the don’t check out Journey Into Misery at Navarro (Sonambulo), who I had nice little Reavers.” It was a fine bit of costuming/ journeyintomisery.com you’re a dang- chats with. There were more people there filk/performance. The Browncoats were blasted fool!) and panels to attend and porn to be enjoyed than anywhere else I’ve been If you are a Bay Area who stars to mingle with, really, WonderCon is since my last con experience. has a blog or website, send us the all about people. I met some great folks up Oh yeah, and the SF/SF crew was there! information at: [email protected] there and had a wonderful time catching I had made fifty-plus CDs of SF/SFs and for inclusion in our Blogwatch up and meeting and greeting. There were other from eFanzines.com to pass out issue. some of the folks I run into all the time, to folks and they all went away. I’d put ten 2 out there all weekend, from showing the The programming team from Comic-Con at WonderCon over the next couple of documentary Done The Impossible to the International should be very proud, even issues, as well as some interviews that were active booth they had on the main floor. I though Saturday ran behind sched by an made possible by our being at WonderCon. didn’t get a chance to talk to any of them hour at times. The was strong, It was just a great time when we could get much (including the adorable one with the especially with my man, Phil Foglio, out there and talk to Browncoats, film fans, red hair who I really should have tried to doing the MC-ing. I enjoyed the entries, comic fans, indy comic writers, porn stars, chat with), but I got the distinct impression especially the Han-in-Carbonite being artists, writers, SF fans, fans, toy that they were so busy, idle chit-chat would chased by mini-Boba Fett and Chewbacca. collectors, anime nuts, and TV lovers… have been rushed too much. I laughed a lot at that one. you know, all those people who should be The events were solid. I enjoyed the There was so much to the con that I reading (and writing for) Science Fiction/ panels on the Horror Hosts and I managed can’t even go over it all. I’ll say you’ll be San Francisco! to see the Pixar and Superman presentation. seeing a lot more of what we all did while —Chris Garcia Richard Paul Russo at Borderlands

3 Further Confusion 2006

By Adam Riggs (aka Nicodemus) lobby armchairs. Furries pass by, wearing animation effects used in heads as well as tokens of their favorite animals, ranging the computer technology behind them. One convention that I attend every from necklaces with tiny silver rabbits While I spent much of my time at January is Further Confusion out at the to complete mascot-style costumes. Ears costuming track events, there were also San Jose DoubleTree hotel. It’s one of the and tails are the most common fashion panels on art, writing, science, and history. largest gatherings of anthropomorphics accessories. After a while, bright-colored Some of these were lectures while others fans, attracting just shy of two thousand fuzzy animals walking by become normal, were structured as workshops. Live animal people this year and filling the hotel to and the occasional mundane businessman drawing sessions are among the special art capacity. in a suit seems odd and misplaced. track events. Exotic animals are brought in Anthropomorphics fandom, usually Further Confusion has a variety of as live models for the artists to sketch. FC referred to by the nickname “furry,” is programming, including both large stage has worked to establish a good relationship focused on animal characters: animals events and smaller discussion panels. I was with local animal sanctuaries through their that have human attributes, fantasy at FC this year to help out with some of the charitable fundraising efforts. combinations of animal and human forms, costuming panels (costume construction Like most conventions, there’s a and mythical creatures such as dragons being one of my specialties) and also to Masquerade event. There were over twenty and gryphons. Furry fans enjoy sharing run one of the stage shows. Though I can’t creative entrants in this year’s competition. stories, discussing man’s relationship with possibly recount everything that happened My wife, the Masquerade Director, was nature, collecting animal memorabilia, in such a short space, hopefully I’ve busy organizing all the participants in the creating representations of characters, and assembled an interesting sample of some of backstage area, among the large electric more. Most furries associate themselves the highlights of my trip. fans and photoshoot backdrops. If you’ve with a particular species or even an animal After registering, I got to see a bit of never worn a mascot costume, you may not character of their own creation; many the costume animatronics panel the first realize that all that synthetic fur is hot, so create drawings or even full costume evening. I’m always amazed by the things the fans are essential green room equipment! representations of these personas. that people are building into fursuits these The Masquerade went well, from what I It’s fun just to hang out in the public days! People making costumes as a hobby heard. I didn’t get to actually see much areas and meet fellow attendees. Artists can generally like to explore new techniques. of it because I was gathering supplies and usually be found sketching in the oversized This panel showcased some mechanical staffers backstage for the following show, 4 “Iron Artist.” This is one the events that I even used the white glue to draw the lines That evening was “Furry Night Live,” run each year, with the help of a number of for the cartoon composition. It’s always a vaudeville-style ensemble comedy show. talented friends. fascinating to see the individual style of the This year’s show was one of the best I’ve The premise of the Iron Artist event is artists as they deal with the (deliberately seen! An enormous variety of acts and similar to the TV show “Iron Chef.” In our oddball) materials. talent, some very good writing, clever use version, we pit three artists (the previous Finally, a long day was rounded out by of staging and costumes, and just full-tilt year’s winners) against three challengers. the Improv Workshop. As with most nights wackiness. One act was an inspired satirical The challenging artists are drawn by lot of the con, there was also a late-night dance speech; there were several live music from signup forms submitted earlier. going on in the main ballroom. Being less performances; another group performed Once all the artists are on-stage, we unveil coordinated, I’d rather flail about where it’ll a series of skits based on the Robin Hood the “secret ingredient,” some unusual art be recognized as comedy, so some friends tales, to fit in with the con theme. media which each artist must use in their and I ran through some informal improv Finally, at the long, naked, pink and composition. The six competitors then get games. The group had more improv novices skinny tail-end of the con: The Rodent thirty minutes to try quickly to assemble than usual, which kept us to a selection of Panel. There are a series of discussion artistic masterpieces to impress a panel of basic games. But they were all willing to panels for fans of different animal families. judges. give new things a try and throw themselves I volunteered to run the Rodent Panel this It’s a lot of fun to get artists working in into it, which is the key; the problem is year since rats are my favorite animals. the spotlight under a strict time limit. It usually encouraging reluctant newbies to I brought in some books about rats to pushes their skills and makes it interesting take risks in improv. So in the end we all recommend, handed out a rodent quiz, and for the audience. We ensure that things enjoyed some good laughs. generally had fun talking about plagues and get sufficiently silly by providing color There was the Furry Heraldry panel the socioeconomic history. commentary, roving cameras, and on-the- next day, as a tribute to this year’s Renaissance After that, it was time to pack everything spot interviews. I had fun being the lead theme. The panel had a decent attendance, up and check out. Costumes went back in commentator as well as providing this possibly boosted by the inexplicably high boxes, loose pasta was thrown away, and year’s secret media: dry pasta and glue. I crossover between the SCA and furry sketchbooks got tossed in cars. We’ll be think they were well-received; dried pasta fandom. It was an informative panel about back next year and I hope to see you there! has been suggested by fans almost every animals in the design of crests and shields. Until then, happy tails... err, trails. year since we did our first show at FC’01. Furry isn’t new; people have been using The official FC website is at www.furth The artists had a good time with it, taking animal representations of themselves for erconfusion.org. a number of creative approaches; one artist centuries!

5 Local Sci-Fi/Horror Author Scott Sigler Creates Wold’s First Podcast Novel

By Diane B. Rooney podcasting their books from Day One of Week, the Washington Post, and sci fi sites Staff Writer the technology. But when local author, like Solar Flare and Mars Dust. journalist, and marketing consultant Scott Another neat thing Scott did to Serialization of novels goes back to Sigler searched for podcast books last build reader involvement was to create Charles Dickens, if not before, so you’d spring, he came up with nothing. That gave a website for the fictitious mining think that novelists would have been onto him an idea, and so his sci fi/horror company at the heart of the novel, at http: EarthCore became the world’s first podcast- //www.earthcore.biz. The site is still there only novel starting in March 2005. but the story-related content is gone. Scott explains, “When I had the idea, EarthCore had actually been around for I googled for ‘podcast novel’ and found a bit. In 2001 it was issued as an eBook, nothing, which amazed me because it spending six weeks in the #1 spot in Horror seemed like such a common-sense use of and Suspense at Barnes & Noble online. It the technology. So, I figured out how to was scheduled for print publication by the podcast and I put it out.” iPublish imprint of Time Warner in 2002, Not only was it a breakthrough in but the unit closed before its publication. publishing technology, it was a literary Not familiar yet with podcasting? It’s success as well, drawing some 10,000 a subscription service, like a magazine, in dedicated listeners. EarthCore’s strong which you get episodes of a program or podcast following generated reviews and other media delivered to you electronically. buzz about the use of the technology, and You can listen on the computer or led to print publication in November 2005 download to an iPod or similar device. At by Dragon Moon Press. a lot of podcast sites you can set your own The EarthCore podcast got Scott some episode delivery schedule. pretty good electronic and paper press, Preparing the podcast is not that hard both for his use of the technology and for but is a bit time consuming. Each episode the book itself, from the likes of Business is recorded and saved as a big MP3 file and 6 then uploaded to the website. If he makes situations. They are not living in the far false scripture of evolution, trying to make a serious flub in the reading, Scott will go future but in the present or near-present. people think its okay to merge human back and correct it right away, as there isn’t EarthCore deals with the efforts of a DNA with animal DNA. Humans are not really a thorough editing process due to the Detroit-based mining company to reach animals... God will punish you. We have size of the file. Each episode lasts around 45 and develop the world’s largest platinum destroyed your blog and hopefully your minutes and takes 3-4 hours to record. deposit, a solid mass buried three miles sinful story.” The blog recovered but a lot As a writer, Scott believes in getting it below the surface in remote Utah hills. of the listener comments along the way right and sweating the details, often literally. What they actually find, and how people were lost. He spent two years writing EarthCore and involved in the project are affected, drives Next up is Infection, scheduled to start countless hours researching it, including the story from there. podcasting in March. (It was actually four days exploring the Mammoth Caves of Since EarthCore, Scott’s been positively written before EarthCore). In this story, the Kentucky. For Ancestor, his second podcast prolific. He completed the podcast of his main character is infected by microscopic book, he went on a solo snowmobiling latest novel, Ancestor, at the end of January. parasites that he calls triangles, which try excursion in the Kewenaw Peninsula of Ancestor, a biotech thriller, drew even more to manipulate hormone levels, causing him Michigan’s Upper Peninsula area where, listeners. In Ancestor, scientists are working to experience paranoia, schizophrenia and a after a seven-hour ride, he almost ran out on the technology of using animal tissue to tendency toward violence. of gas in the dark in sub-zero weather. replace failing human organs. One approach Scott is also developing quite a fan base In terms of process, Scott writes on a is to create an animal with human internal with links to a Café Press store and a Yahoo laptop, whenever he has time. He does organs, or actually, recreate such an animal, Group from his site, moving forward an outline for the plot structure but then the ancestor of all mammals. As to the toward his goal of writing full-time. works on characters, usually going through wisdom of this idea, Scott’s website notes: Scott’s podcasts are moving to seven or eight drafts before he is satisfied. “Extinction isn’t always a bad thing.” the podcast network Podshow at He aims to “avoid speedbumps” — places Podcasting also allows for ongoing scottsigler.podshow.com http:// where the reader is conscious of reading interaction with a community of readers. scottsigler.podshow.com/. EarthCore is and no longer fully absorbed in the story. For Ancestor there have been contests, a also at http://www.podiobooks.com or He likes to experiment with cross-genre map of where readers are located, an art http://www.odeo.com/channel/3292/view. novels, for example, horror and sci fi with contest, and someone even made a movie Get the whole scoop on Scott at http:// EarthCore, and even sci fi and sports in a in claymation. www.scottsigler.net. novel he submitted to ESPN books. There is even a dark side: On Christmas Note: There is an EarthCore book He is inspired by the potential of science Day, the Ancestor podsite was hacked by signing on February 17 at 7:00 p.m. at to impact lives, for both good and evil, and someone opposed to the theory of evolution, Spellbinding Tales in Alameda. Call 510/ likes working with regular people who not to mention mixing human and animal 523-1105 or go to www.spellbindingtales. slowly find themselves in extraordinary DNA. “You blasphemers are spreading the com for directions. 7 The View From Behind the Table (or A Very Narrow Anime Report)

By Andy Trembley (like a well-stocked video game room and was anime professional Hiroake Inoue, co- Staff Writer multiple video rooms). founder of Studio Gainax, now a producer Palo Alto polyfans (no, not polyamory, with AIC Studio and also the chairman of Anime Los Angeles reviewed in SF/SF? polymath) Chris “Karisu” Willrich Nippon2007, the Yokohama WorldCon. Of course. and Richard Man were this year’s Fan As I mentioned, my view of the con was Bay Area anime, manga and Japanese Guests of Honor, being celebrated for very much from the inside. I can’t report pop-culture fans migrated down to Los their contributions to (think a on the opening ceremonies as I was sitting Angeles like birds flying south for the combination of Winter for the second Anime Los Angeles, hall-costuming, January 27-29 at the Airtel Plaza in Van m a s q u e r a d e Nuys. Yep, the same Airtel Plaza that costuming, and hosts Costume and until this year unstructured GallifreyOne (the longest-running North c h a r a c t e r American Dr. Who convention). I only role-play), the saw some of it, though; I was one of the Cosplay.Com masquerade directors, hence the limited o n l i n e and meandering report. c o m m u n i t y, Anime Los Angeles is an oasis in and costume the desert of trade-show-style anime photography. conventions, a convention started by Artist GoH SF convention veterans and run like a was “PMBQ,” fannish SF convention. Founder Chaz the charming Boston-Baden is always ready to point out author/artist of that it has all the fannish amenities one TeaClub.com. would expect at a general SF convention Japanese GoH Masquerade Judge Dany Sloane as Robin and her boyfriend as Amon from (including a very nice con suite) and the (their first the anime Witch Hunter Robin. amenities of a good Japanese GoH) Photo Courtesy of ImageCraft.com 8 weekend. This year, at close of registration featured a nice selection of dealers. The Friday night, live bodies were more than at Hornsmythe provided a familiar face to last year’s con, and total registrations were LA congoers, in amongst the dealers in over 700. By Saturday evening (during the anime, manga and other things of interest masquerade) the live membership count to Japanophiles. There was little that I was at 1,200 and when registration closed couldn’t get if I visited the right areas of mid-day Sunday, registrations were over San Francisco, Santa Clara County or LA, 1,300, there was no more badge stock, and but not everybody knows all the hidden registration was telling people not to worry, pockets of Japanese shops or has easy access just go enjoy themselves. I just hope this to them, and I’ve got to give the dealers’ growth curve levels before it kills the con. The overall membership was very young. Unlike SF conventions who offer “Kid in Tow” badges to parents with small children, Anime Los Angeles offered a “Parent in Tow” membership to any member under 15 who brought a parent or acting guardian along for the weekend. There were a lot of blue badges walking around the con. An excellent Captain Komamura Sajin from Bleach Speaking of badges, the badges were Photo Courtesy of ImageCraft.com gorgeous, colorful and easy to read. Kudos to the designer. With Chaz at the helm, behind a desk. I can’t report on the Anime there was no lack of “badge extender” Music Video contest, as I was having dinner ribbons (the bear likes his ribbons). Folks after spending all day at a desk. I can report who had been to ALA 1 got “Perfect on con business, and random things that Attendance” ribbons, everybody else got happened in the lobby, and I can definitely screaming orange “My First Time” ribbons. report on the masquerade. I thought “My First Time” being directly Con business was brisk. Last year’s Anime adjacent to my “Staff” ribbon was rather The Bay Area’s Raider 3 as the title charac- Los Angeles was somewhere under 700 live amusing. ter from the movie Porco Rosso. bodies registered and at the con for the The dealers’ room was small, but Photo Courtesy of ImageCraft.com 9 room coordinator a great deal of credit for entries registered. Two were groups of 8, getting dealers with a broad spectrum of the rest were mostly in the 1-3 participant products. range. The house manager held the doors The Airtel Lobby was the place for until 7:05 as they madly shoveled as many people-watching, so working a masquerade chairs as they could find (and fit, without desk there was fun. This was a problem, violating fire code) into the ballroom; as I though; the Airtel Plaza has awful traffic mentioned, the con grew a bit more than patterns, and doesn’t have a large open- anticipated. It started a bit late, but to plan lobby. It just didn’t support dozens a packed house. Tadao Tomomatsu (LA of people stopping to take pictures of fan, actor and raconteur) ably performed people in costume. What happens is several the duty of MC (after handing his house cosplayers doing characters from the same manager job over to Katt Thornton), series meet up, and start gabbing about the and he, the tech crew, and the very able show/manga/costumes. Somebody stops to contestant wranglers got all the entries take their picture. They pose. The cameras across the stage by 8:30. A difficult judging multiply like rabbits. All traffic stops. session (with Karisu and San Franciscan Bad traffic patterns aside, this was a great Dany Slone heading the judging panels) con for cosplayers. A well-stocked costume and a few technical difficulties meant that repair station made it easy for cosplayers awards didn’t start being presented until with problems to fix them. Numerous about 10:00, but all the entrants were still courtyards and gardens provided excellent A masquerade contestant. there to collect their certificates when their backdrops for photo shoots. Cosplayers Photo Courtesy of ImageCraft.com names were announced. came out en masse, and wore some really For a portion of the staff, cosplayers and fabulous costumes around the con. with gaming, “Rum” (where rum=Tejava others behind the scenes, the awards were Several people quickly knocked out iced tea), and a slave auction. followed by Karisu and Richard’s Lunar pirate costumes and accessories out of Saturday was much of the same. I got New Year’s Eve party, where much Chinese scraps found in the repair room for Friday the impression that quite a lot of people take-out was consumed until the wee hours night’s “Rum” party. I was never quite sure were doing only one day and commuting of the morning. on the rationale of the “Rum” party, but the con. This contributed to the feeling Sunday the convention just kept rolling, it seemed to satisfy the crowds. After the that it was still pretty “first day.” but without us. We had to be heading back contest, a bunch of The Masquerade? I’m glad you asked. north, so we didn’t see much more of the pirates converted the ballroom into a tavern When all was said and done, we had 27 convention. 10 BlogWatch: Tribe.net

By Chris Garcia side to the festivities. as it once was. My personal favorite is Bad Editor The DIY aesthetic lives on Tribe.net, Poets’ Society, where you can always count especially among zinesters and filmmakers. on finding poems that are bad enough to be Before MySpace (but after Friendster), There are several zine-related tribes, entertaining. there was Tribe.net. Tribe is one of the including **all zines, all the time** and Tribe also has a strong science fiction most active social-networking sites and is Self-Publishers Unite!. The traffic and fan presence. There are Tribes for a lot of the one that really made interest groups on discussions on both overlap quite a bit different SF authors (Asimov, Heinlein, those sorts of sites popular. MySpace was and are usually interesting, even when Cory Doctorow) and there are Tribes certainly influenced by it, and the changes it’s just one person complaining about a for specific sub-genres (Steampunk, to Friendster over the last couple of years specific mag that gives negative reviews. Cyberpuck, etc). Some of the more popular certainly have a Tribe-esque feel to them. The filmmakers Tribe is huge, with several SF-related Tribes are …Kinky SciFi…, The BArea is home to many Tribe members thousand members, and they’ve put dedicated to films and books that feature and there are a lot of tribes of interest to together several films that were conceived sex and fun (think Phil Jose Farmer or BArea fans and fandom. on Tribe. Locally, there’s the Bay Area Barbarella) and The Sci-Fi Nitpickers Club, One of the most active Tribes is the Movie Group and SF Filmmakers. which is always a hoot. Burning Man Tribe. Burners really latched Writers always seem to flock to these There’s so much on Tribe to recommend, on to Tribe as a way to get information out services, and there are a few Tribes that that the ones I listed don’t even scratch and start discussions. In the early days, serve a lot of BArea writers. The best of the surface. The Society For Creative more than 50% of all Tribe users were part them has to be Writing Fiction, which is a Anachronism has a Tribe, and there’s one of Burning Man Tribe, but not so much huge Tribe full of folks who regularly write dedicated to Convention Fandom, one for anymore. Still, it’s an exciting area to find and often post their fiction on the Tribe for BayCon, one for just about everything. out about all of the fun and merriment critique. Creative Writing is another of the Even if the recent redesign has annoyed surrounding Burning Man. There are also large ones. Bay Area some and made it difficult to access some of anti-Burning Man Tribes, including one Writers is another Tribe that a lot of folks the more adult Tribes, I’d say that it’s worth called Boring Man, that give a different seem to use, though traffic on it isn’t as high looking around, if not actually joining.

11 BASFA Minutes: meeting 811 February 6, 2006 Announcements: philosophy & then went into the realm of Andy announced that rumors of de- science and telescopes; that it was fascinat- Trey Haddad, President ceased zombats are untrue, nor have they ing & she recommends it. Chris Garcia, Vice-President been renamed ‘plan 9 from down under’. Dave C. reviewed the ‘San Francisco Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Joanie announced that her middle International Gift Faire’ as it was difficult Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms school library is looking for donations to gain entrance to & once he was in he Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary - especially Dragonlance books, or other found endless amounts of arts and crafts tomes suitable for the 11-14 year age- - but nothing he could use & not worth Began 8 p.m.[feverishly]. span. his name being on their mailing lists; then Dave C. announced that Gallifrey will Dave passed on a review of ‘Ghost’ by 24 people attended. be at the LA Marriott in 2 weeks. Ringo as he was told it was not worth Kevin S. announced that he has fan- reading & worth selling on Ebay. Secretary’s report: the minutes of zines. Adrienne reviewed a short story col- meeting 810 were accepted as ‘they found lection: “Future Washington’ as she liked planet 10’. Reviews: the kitty cat story & that it’s eligible for Treasurer report was unavailable, as was Ken reviewed some Brit import TV the Hugo. the Treasurer. shows - that ‘Life on Mars’ was very good, Kevin S. reviewed KNBR radio as they VP report also unavailable, but he left that ‘Hyperdrive’ was a miss, that ‘the IT let him get on the air & make humorous ‘Drink Tanks’. Crowd’ is also pretty good - and also asides. The President reported that he had that he had heard this week’s ‘Medium’ is Then Mike announced that an March nothing. good. 12 there will be a Q&A with Edward Reminder that next week is week #3 Andy reviewed ‘East Coat Seafood’ James Olmos at Cinequest. of Hugo nominations & that part 2 of as excellent, very authentic, very popular No auctions. Hugo nominations follows the meeting. dim sum - well worth full price [and get We adjourned at 8:50 p.m. The party committee reported that he’s there early]. And the rumor of the week was ‘that making progress towards the next party, at Julie reviewed a book called ‘Mirror, Chris Garcia was elected as president in BayCon. Mirror’ - as it contains interesting histo- his absence’ [and Trey was disappointed it We established a party jar. ries [including 2 chapters on John Dee], was only a rumor].

12 BASFA Minutes: meeting 812

February 13, 2006 [with a suggestion for Julie announced it was the anniversary 3rd tier ticket prices – loads of fun; Kevin interpretive dance]. of the Dresden fire bombing. R. follow-on’d that it drew attention very Andy announced there’ll be an Evil well & felt intimate in the way it was Trey Haddad, President Genius party at Gallifrey on Friday night presented. Chris Garcia, Vice-President [and pass the mustard]. Jim reviewed a film seen at an Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Dave C. announced that Gallifrey will independent film festival ‘AKA Tommy Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms be at the L.A. Marriott in 4 days [& Dave Chong’ – a documentary – as he knew Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary G. said ‘but jewelry]. the story & thought it was well done & interesting & he recommends it as worth Began 8:02 p.m. [feverishly]. Reviews: full price. Wondercon was reviewed – Chris said Chris reviewed ‘The Lion King’ as he 17 people attended. he had a wonderful time & the most fun was amazed and had expected to hate it was interviewing Bob Wilkins & John – that it was absolutely well done, the Secretary’s report: the minutes of Stanley [many comments were made about singing was wonderful & the music well meeting 811 were accepted as ‘croak’. restraining orders] and he spent a whole lot done – and was worth putting up with his of money on comics & it was worth full mother. Last week we took in $0.75 in the price & the Browncoat documentary was Kevin R reviewed a costumer’s cabal regular jar & $1.50 in the party jar & the very good; follow-ons were made about weekend get-together as very pleasant & a Treasurer was late. corsets, porn actressses, Raven O’Neill’s reminder that you should spend time with birthday & Mel’s Diner’s inability to sit a old friends when it’s possible. VP report: he has ‘Drink Tanks’, went large party together; that the Masquerade Trey reviewed ‘That darned Squid to Wondercon & the next ‘Drink Tank’ will was really quite decent & that the SF God’ by Polatta as a rollicking good time; be about inventors & inventions. Marriott lies [in regards to room parties & that ‘Damned Nation’ by Polatta was a costumes] & Kevin S. thought it was worth guilty pleasure; that ‘700 Sundays’ by Billy The President reported that he had his $15 one-day membership to attend. Crystal just sucks you right into it, is fun & nothing. Andy reviewed Cirque de Solei as it is very readable. Reminder that part 3 of the Hugo about the dreams of an old clown about his No auctions. nominations follows the meeting. funeral, is very surreal & the connecting We adjourned at 8:58 p.m. bits were weird & good & kind of hold And the rumor of the week was: ‘that Announcements: it together, charming & definitely worth the BASFA secretary is a Dalek’. 13 Bay Area Science Fiction Calendar

While some effort (OK, OK, damn “From the darkest depths of the cartoon “Ghastly” Ingels From the pages of EC little effort) is made to verify event vaults comes the Cartoon Art Museum’s Comics’ seminal comic book The Vault listings, please check before attending as latest exhibition, Gross, Gruesome and of Horror comes “Shoe-Button Eyes,” a events are sometimes cancelled or times Gothic. This horrifying display features complete seven-page story illustrated by and locations changed. over 50 original cartoons from a wide array Graham Ingels. of artists and comics, from spine-tinglers to “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: New listings are in red. rib-ticklers and everything in between. Neil Gaiman’s Sandman One of the most Changed or cancelled events are in “Exhibition highlights include: popular and acclaimed comic book series of magenta. “Masters of the : Edward Gorey, the past 20 years, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Charles Addams and Basil Wolverton tales from DC Comics set new standards in Ongoing through March 12, 2006 Three of the most influential humorists of excellence for fantasy and horror. Featured Gross, Gruesome and Gothic all time present their unique views of the artists include Chris Bachalo, Duncan Cartoon Art Museum world around us in a selection of comics Eagleson, Marc Hempel, Kent Williams 655 Mission Street and illustrations dating back to the 1920s. and series cover artist Dave McKean. San Francisco, CA 94105 “Spotlight on Gahan Wilson: This “Scared Silly! Scary comics don’t always Phone: 415/CAR-TOON, creator spotlight focuses on Gahan Wilson, take themselves seriously. Bongo Comics’ 415/227-8666 one of the most celebrated and respected annual Treehouse of Horror special features Hours: Daily 11:00 - 5:00, Closed cartoonists of our time. In the past half- The Simpsons as you’ve never seen them Monday century, Wilson’s distinctive cartoons and before, as illustrated by Sergio Aragonés, Admission Prices: illustrations have graced the pages of The Peter Kuper, Bill Morrison, Scott Shaw and $6.00 - Adults New Yorker, Nickelodeon, Playboy and Jill Thompson; Batton Lash’s Supernatural $4.00 - Students & Seniors National Lampoon. In 2005, Wilson Law warns us to beware the creatures of $2.00 - Children (ages 6 - 12) received the coveted Milton Caniff Lifetime the night...and their lawyers; and Charles FREE - Children (age 5 & below) Achievement Award from the National Schulz’s classic comic Peanuts asks the The first Tuesday of every calendar month Cartoonists Society, one of the highest burning question, “When will the Great is “Pay What You Wish Day.” honors that a cartoonist can achieve. Pumpkin arrive?” From their website: “The Vault of Horror: Graham “It came from the Seventies! As the Silver 14 Age of comics came to an end, the Marvel, how they did it and how their technique Thursday, February 16 DC and Warren publishing companies could eventually become the basis of a gene Tsnami Anime unleashed a wave of that therapy for certain kinds of blindness. WSQ 109 pushed the boundaries of comic book art. About the Series: Ask a Scientist is a San Jose State Alfredo Alcala, Jim Aparo, Frank Brunner, new and different kind of lecture series. San Jose Gene Colan and Dick Giordano, among If you love watching Nova and reading 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. others, bring new life to classic characters Scientific American at the doctor’s office, Free from Dracula and Frankenstein’s then this event is for you. Enjoy food, to anti-heroes including The Spectre, drinks, socializing, and conversation about Thursday, February 16 Vampirella and Morbius, The Living the universe’s most fascinating mysteries! Sci-Fi Book Club . Barnes & Noble “Nothin’ But Misery: The Goon by Eric Wednesday, February 15 Creekside Town Center Powell Powell is the Eisner Award-winning Tempura Anime 1265 Galeria Blvd. creator of Dark Horse Comic series The tempura-anime.us/ (916) 788-4320 Goon, a horror comedy that pits the title Roseville character and his pal Frankie against killer Santa Clara Free robots, , Spanish-speaking lizards 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. and other supernatural menaces.” Free Friday, February 17 Scott Sigler Wednesday, February15 Thursday, February 16 Spellbinding Tales Ask a Scientist - topic: Synthetic Sight Cal Animage Alpha “Family Night” 1910A Encinal Avenue Bazaar Café www.ocf.Berkeley.edu/~animage/ Alameda 5927 St. (21st Ave) family.php 7 p.m. San Francisco UC Berkeley’s anime club family nights Free www.askascientistsf.com/ are gatherings of interest groups within the Appearance by San Francisco science 7 - 9 p.m. club held every Thursday. See their website fiction author Scott Sigler. Free for details. Last year Dirk Trauner and colleagues at Berkeley did something really interesting: Send your items for inclusion in our they reengineered a non-photosensitive calendar section to: nerve cell so that it could be turned on [email protected] or off in response to light. Come find out More Events Next Page 15 Friday, February 17 February 17-20 Saturday, February 18 Futurist Salon Book Group PantheaCon Stanford NewType Anime Club Showing Barnes & Noble Booksellers San Jose Doubletree Room 60-61H Hillsdale Shopping Center www.ancientways.com/pantheacon Building 60 11 West Hillsdale Blvd. Pagan convention. Workshops, lectures, Stanford Campus San Mateo performances, rituals, vendors, drumming, Palo Alto 650-341-5560 dancing, costume contest. No time listed on schedule, but previous 7:30 p.m. movie events have started at 2 p.m. Free Saturday, February 18 Free Donald Sidney-Fryer Saturday movie event. Friday, February 17 Borderlands Books USS Defiance Meeting 866 Valencia Saturday, February 18 Round Table Pizza 4 pm: Rocky Horror Picture Show Howe Avenue Donald Sidney-Fryer, presenting Clark www.picturepubpizza.com Sacramento Ashton Smith’s The Last Oblivion, will Parkway Speakeasy Theater 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. share his insights on, and his performance 1834 Park Blvd. Free of, the poetry of Clark Ashton Smith. Oakland $6 Friday and Saturday, February 17 and 18 Saturday, February 18 Midnight Raiders of the Lost Ark Manga Barely Legal Productions presents the Act 1 and 2 Barnes & Noble Booksellers classic midnight movie every Saturday 2128 Center Street Barnes & Noble Booksellers night. No one under 17 admitted. Berkeley Weberstown Mall Midnight 4950 Pacific Avenue, Space 319 Stockton, CA 95207 February 17-20 209-472-1885 Dundracon 6 p.m. San Ramon Marriott Free 2600 Bishop Drive Graphic novel book group. San Ramon www.dundracon.com . More Events Next Page 16 Saturday, February 19 Monday, February 20 Wednesday, February 22 Fantastic Frontiers Meeting Bay Area Science Fiction Association Tempura Anime Sacramento County The Original Hick’ry Pit tempura-anime.us/ Email [email protected] for 980 E. Campbell Ave. Santa Clara University directions Campbell Santa Clara groups.yahoo.com.groups/ 8 p.m. 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. fantasticfrontiers Free Free 9:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. www.basfa.org. $55 for six people. Thursday, February 23 The group will celebrate its third Tuesday, February 21 Cal Animage Alpha “Family Night” anniversary with a glow bowling outing. Rudy Rucker www.ocf.Berkeley.edu/~animage/ In our last issue, we listed the wrong The Booksmith family.php date for this event. SF/SF appologizes for 1644 Haight Street UC Berkeley’s anime club family nights any inconvenience. San Francisco are gatherings of interest groups within the www.booksmith.com club held every Thursday. See their website Sunday, February 19 7 p.m. for details. Science Fiction Book Club Free Borderlands Books Postponed until March 7. Friday, February 24 www.borderlands-books.com Sci-Fi / Fantasy Book Group 866 Valencia St. Tuesday, February 21 Barnes & Noble Booksellers San Francisco Stanford NewType Anime Club Showing Weberstown Mall 6 p.m. Room 60-61H 4950 Pacific Avenue, Space 319 Free Building 60 Stockton, CA 95207 This month’s book is Wonderland by Stanford Campus 209-472-1885 Joyce Carol Oates. Please contact Jude Palo Alto 6:30 p.m. at [email protected] for 8-10:30 p.m. Free more information. Free

More Events Next Page 17 Friday, February 24 Saturday, February 25 After the presentation, guests will have AnimeFX Twenty Years Behind the Scenes at an opportunity to converse with the speak- Superbowl Eyeshield 21 Marathon Pixar Animation Studios ers and other Pixar employees. There will HSS 154 Pixar Animation Studios also be a glimpse into Pixar’s future, as San Francisco State University Campus 1200 Park Avenue some of the creative team of Pixar’s next San Francisco Emeryville short film, One Man Band, screen and talk 4 p.m. - 10 p.m. 415-CARTOON, ext. 300 about their film. Free http://www.cartoonart.org Hors d’oeuvres will be served during First meeting of the semester and 6 p.m. (Gates open at 5:30 p.m.) the art exhibition viewing from 6-7 p.m.. potluck party and showing of the football- $175 ($125 for Cartoon Art Museum The presentation will begin promptly at 7 theme anime. And yes, they know they’re a members) p.m.. and will be hosted by Dr. Michael B. bit late to be holding a Superbowl party. The Cartoon Art Museum hosts its Johnson, lead, Moving Pictures Group at Please note new meeting location for third annual benefit at Pixar Animation Pixar, and will include other Pixar employ- this group. Studios on Saturday, February 25, 2006. ees, including director Mark Andrews and From Pixar’s inception in 1986 with the animator Angus MacLane. The presenta- Saturday, February 25 premiere of its iconic short film,Luxo Jr., to tion will be followed by dessert and coffee, Stanford NewType Anime Club Showing the studio’s latest full-length feature, Cars, plus the opportunity to mix and mingle Room 60-61H attendees will get an insiders’ perspective with artists in Pixar’s atrium from 8:30-9: Building 60 on these computer animated creations. 30 p.m. Stanford Campus The evening starts with a reception at This event is expected to sell out quickly Palo Alto Pixar’s Emeryville campus. Over wine and and there are only a limited number of seats No time listed on schedule, but previous hors d’oeuvres guests will gain access to a available. Cartoon Art Museum members movie events have started at 2 p.m. stunning gallery exhibition featuring the can purchase tickets for the reduced rate of Free pre-production artwork of The Incredibles, $125, while the non-member rate is $175. Saturday movie event. as well as other fine artwork by Pixar em- Call 415-227-8666, ext. 300 to purchase ployees. Guests will then be escorted into tickets. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Pixar’s state-of-the-art 240-seat theater to hear stories from artists, gain insight into Pixar’s unique movie-making process and catch a glimpse behind the scenes at the productions of Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. More Events Next Page 18 Saturday, February 25 Saturday, February 25 Sunday, February 26 Art Spiegelman Pee-wee’s Big Adventure Bad Movie Night Osher Marin JCC Act 1 and 2 Astro Zombies www.marinjcc.org 2128 Center Street 2263 Mission Street 200 North San Pedro Road Berkeley San Francisco San Rafael Midnight darkroomsf.com 8 p.m. No, I’m not sure if this counts as a 8 p.m. $36 science fiction movie. But what the heck, $5 “The Evolution of Comics” by the pu- this one night only event is hosted by Changed from The Mysterians. litzer prize winning author of Maus and In Peaches Christ, so it should at least be an the Shadow of No Towers. out of this world show. Monday, February 27 Cal Animage Alpha Meeting and Showing Saturday, February 25 Sunday, February 26 Location TBA Rocky Horror Picture Show East Bay Skeptics Society UC Berkeley Campus www.picturepubpizza.com China Village Berkeley Parkway Speakeasy Theater 1335 Solano Avenue www.ocf.Berkeley.edu/~animage/ 1834 Park Blvd. Albany 7:30 p.m. Oakland 7 p.m. Free $6 Free The oldest of the Bay Area’s university Midnight This month’s topic: Avian flu. anime clubs hosts a showing every Monday Barely Legal Productions presents the night when school is in session. Every week classic midnight movie every Saturday Sunday, February 26 this semester they are showing episodes of night. No one under 17 admitted. Art Spiegelman Paradise Kiss and 2x2 Shinobuden, plus this Bayside Performing Arts Center week’s featured show: Ginban Kaieidoscope. www.pjcc.org 2025 Kehoe Avenue San Mateo 6 p.m. $35 “The Evolution of Comics” by the pu- litzer prize winning author of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers. More Events Next Page 19 Monday, February 27 cycles of food growth. There’s amputation, March 3-5 Bay Area Science Fiction Association mutilation, excrement and even a film for Consonace 2006 The Original Hick’ry Pit those who are big into anthropomorphic www.consonance.org/ 980 E. Campbell Ave. animals in suits or b.b. gun fans. These Crowne Plaza Campbell Mindbenders may well be the strangest 777 Bellew Drive 8 p.m. ever, and it will certainly keep you awake Milpitas Free and scratching your head. Memberships: $35 to 10/31/05, $40 to www.basfa.org. —Chris Garcia 2/18/06, $45 at door Filk convention. Guests: Bill & Tuesday, February 28 Shorts in the program: Gretchen Roper, Marty Coady Fabish, Stanford NewType Anime Club Showing Puzzlebox, Chris Conway. Room 60-61H A Through M- dir. Heidi Marshall Building 60 Chingaso the Clown - dir. Elias Matar Saturday, March 4 Stanford Campus Home Delivery - dir. Elio Quiroga Stanford NewType Anime Club Showing Palo Alto Keep It Real, Dawg - dir. M Strange Room 60-61H 8-10:30 p.m. Lucky - dir. Melissa Berman Building 60 Free The Marionette - dir. Holly Paige Joyner Stanford Campus Phone Sex Grandma - dir. Jack Truman Palo Alto Friday and Saturday, March 3 and 4 The Second Death - dir. Michael Chick No time listed on schedule, but previous CineQuest Shorts Program Slice of Heaven - dir. Christopher Kinsella movie events have started at 2 p.m. Mindbenders Free Camera 12 Cinemas Friday and Saturday, March 3 and 4 Saturday movie event. 201 South Second Street Tron San Jose Act 1 and 2 11:45 p.m. 2128 Center Street $9 Berkeley After a year locked in a trunk at the back Midnight of the attic, Mindbenders returns with tales Exactly how did this movie become a too bizarre to be put on at any time other “sci-fi classic”? Inquiring minds want to than late night. Only then can dark tales of know. clown on mime violence mingle with the talk of the mean streets and the unnatural More Events Next Page 20 Saturday, March 4 and ballet tunes arranged for ballroom Saturday, March 4 Warp 11 dancing and brilliant Viennese Waltzes, Rocky Horror Picture Show The Blue Lamp polkas, mazurkas, schottisches, reels, and www.picturepubpizza.com 1400 Alhambra Ave. quadrilles. All set dances will be taught or Parkway Speakeasy Theater Sacramento called and there will a pre-ball dance class to 1834 Park Blvd. 10 p.m. help you brush up on your mid-Victorian Oakland The Star Trek-theme band plays a dance skills. And, of course, they will play $6 hometown venue. With songs titled “Rage those perennial favorites, “The Congress of Midnight Against the Federation” and “Set Your Vienna Waltz” and “Sir Roger de Coverley” Barely Legal Productions presents the Phaser for F***” resistance is futile. (with a distinctly Wagnerian edge). classic midnight movie every Saturday Suggested costume for this gala event is night. No one under 17 admitted. Saturday, March 4, 2006 Victorian evening or ball dress (circa 1860’s- The Phantom of the Opera Ball 80’s), period fancy dress, or modern evening Sunday, March 5 PEERS Event dress. Masks are strongly suggested. CineQuest Shorts Program Masonic Lodge of San Mateo The fashionable young gentlemen of the The Last Woman in the World Doors Open: 7:00 p.m. Jockey Club will be pleased to know that San Jose Rep Dance lesson: 7:15 p.m. evening’s entertainment includes operatic 101 Passeo de San Antonio Dancing begins: 8:00 p.m. and ballet excerpts by the company, San Jose Tickets: $15.00 in advance (by February including the premiere of the ballet from 2:15 p.m. 28) the controversial new opera “Sappho,” $9 At the door: $20.00 choreographed by the celebrated Mme. Short subject running as part of the Car Don’t let those wild rumors of an Opera Giry for the Peerless Ballet. Refreshments Stories shorts program. Ghost keep you from attending the social will be served throughout the evening event of the season, the Opera Ball of the (Since we lack the catering budget of Paris Opera Populaire. This is destined to be the Paris Opera Populaire, your potluck the most spectacular of all our masquerade contributions will be deeply appreciated). balls and Management assures you that “Everything is under control.” Our special guests - Monsieur Frank Beau Davis, that American trumpet virtuoso and his brilliant Brassworks Band from San Francisco, will play an evening of More Events Next Page 21 Monday, March 6 Animated Worlds returns for another Tuesday, March 7 Cal Animage Alpha Meeting and Showing run with some exceptional pieces of film- Rudy Rucker Location TBA making. Featuring films from six countries The Booksmith UC Berkeley Campus and a local filmmaker’s work as well, power- 1644 Haight Street Berkeley ful storytelling is infused with the magic of San Francisco www.ocf.Berkeley.edu/~animage/ the animator’s art. Stop-motion, computer www.booksmith.com 7:30 p.m. animation, tradition hand-drawn work as 7 p.m. Free well as paper silhouette animation all meld Free The oldest of the Bay Area’s university on a canvas that celebrates the art of film- Novelist and scientist Rudy Rucker will anime clubs hosts a showing every Monday making. Traditional tales mix it up with the read and sign from his new non-fiction night when school is in session. Every week avant-garde, all while telling stories that book The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. this semester they are showing episodes of captivate and entertain. Animated Worlds Rescheduled from February 21. Paradise Kiss and 2x2 Shinobuden, plus this has pieces for the young and old alike, some week’s featured show: Shakuyan no Shana. that will make you think, some that will Tuesday, March 7 make you laugh and some that will simply Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld Monday, March 6 bowl you over in awe. Borderlands Books Bay Area Science Fiction Association —Chris Garcia 866 Valencia The Original Hick’ry Pit San Francisco 980 E. Campbell Ave. Program films: 7 p.m. Campbell Justine Larbalestier is the author of the 8 p.m. The Mysterious Geographical Explorations of nonfiction The Battle of the Sexes in Science Free Jasper Morello - dir. Anthony Lucas Fiction, the two novels Magic or Madness www.basfa.org. The Flooded Playground - dir. Lisa Crafts and Magic Lessons, and the forthcoming The Boy Who Feeds Cats - dir. Craig and Daughters of Earth. Scott Westerfeld is the Monday and Tuesday, March 6 and 7 Andrea Brookes prolific author ofThe Risen Empire and The CineQuest Shorts Program Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot - dir. David Killing of Worlds, the awesome Midnighters Animated Worlds Chai series, Evolution’s Darling, Pretties, Uglies, Camera 12 Cinemas Maestro - dir. Geza Toth and several more. 201 South Second Street Jahn and Michael - dir. Nash Edgerton San Jose Message From the Boss - dir. Victor Bellomo Monday: 7 p.m. and Tuesday: 4:45 p.m. Legend of The Scarecrow - dir. Marco Besas $9 More Events Next Page 22 Tuesday, March 7 Saturday, March 11 Sunday, March 12 Stanford NewType Anime Club Showing Beefbowl Anime Showing Sac Con Room 60-61H Albany Library Scottish Rite Center Building 60 1247 Marin Ave. 6151 H Street Stanford Campus Albany Sacramento Palo Alto www.beefbowl.org 10-4 p.m. 8-10:30 p.m. 12:15- 4:15 p.m. $5 Free Free Comic, toy and anime show, usually has an anime costume contest. Thursday, March 9 Saturday, March 11 Thrillville’s Hipster Holocaust Blow-Out No Name Anime Sunday, March 12 Panic in the Year Zero www.nnanime.com Speculative Fiction Book Club www.thrillville.net Saratoga Library Kepler’s www.picturepubpizza.com 13650 Saratoga Ave. 1010 El Camino Real Parkway Speakeasy Cinema Saratoga Menlo Park 1834 Park Blvd. 12:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. or so 7:30 p.m. Oakland Free Free 9:15 p.m. This month the group will discuss Lian $7 Saturday, March 11 Hearn’s Across the Nightingale Floor. It’s a hipster holocaust blow-out Rocky Horror Picture Show featuring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon www.picturepubpizza.com Sunday, March 12 in a torrid tale of post-nuked LA survival, Parkway Speakeasy Theater Bad Movie Night Panic in the Year Zero. With explosive 1834 Park Blvd. 20 Million Miles To Earth cocktail swingers Johnny and Gin of The Oakland The Dark Room Theater Atomic Lounge Show live on stage! $6 2263 Mission Street Midnight San Francisco Barely Legal Productions presents the darkroomsf.com classic midnight movie every Saturday 8 p.m. night. No one under 17 admitted. $5

More Events Next Page 23 Monday, March 13 Thursday, March 16 Saturday, March 18 Cal Animage Alpha Meeting and Showing Sci-Fi Book Club Otaku Bowl 2006 Location TBA Barnes & Noble [email protected] UC Berkeley Campus Creekside Town Center Classic Bowling Center Berkeley 1265 Galeria Blvd. 900 King Drive www.ocf.Berkeley.edu/~animage/ (916) 788-4320 Daly City 7:30 p.m. Roseville 1 p.m. -9 p.m Free Free Registration $20 until February 28, $25 at The oldest of the Bay Area’s university door. anime clubs hosts a showing every Monday Friday, March 17 Fee includes food, beverages and night when school is in session. Every week Futurist Salon Book Group unlimited bowling. Bowling for prizes, this semester they are showing episodes of Barnes & Noble Booksellers hall cosplay, anime video room, artist alley, Paradise Kiss and 2x2 Shinobuden, plus this Hillsdale Shopping Center exhibitors, game tournament. week’s featured show: Ichigo Mashimaro 11 West Hillsdale Blvd. and Animal Yokochoa. San Mateo Saturday, March 18 650-341-5560 Manga Otaku Monday, March 13 7:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble Booksellers Bay Area Science Fiction Association Free Barnes & Noble Booksellers The Original Hick’ry Pit Weberstown Mall 980 E. Campbell Ave. March 17–April 16 4950 Pacific Avenue, Space 319 Campbell Zorro Stockton, CA 95207 8 p.m. Berkeley Repertory Theater 209-472-1885 Free written and performed by Culture Clash 6 p.m. www.basfa.org. The Roda Theatre Free 2025 Addison Street Graphic novel book group. Tuesday, March 14 Berkeley Sci-Fi Book Club Barnes & Noble 3501 McHenry Ave., Suite E Modesto Free More Events Next Page 24 Saturday, March 18 Monday, March 20 Monday, March 27 Rocky Horror Picture Show Cal Animage Alpha Meeting and Showing Bay Area Science Fiction Association www.picturepubpizza.com Location TBA The Original Hick’ry Pit Parkway Speakeasy Theater UC Berkeley Campus 980 E. Campbell Ave. 1834 Park Blvd. Berkeley Campbell Oakland www.ocf.Berkeley.edu/~animage/ 8 p.m. $6 7:30 p.m. Free Midnight Free www.basfa.org. Barely Legal Productions presents the The oldest of the Bay Area’s university classic midnight movie every Saturday anime clubs hosts a showing every Monday Friday-Saturday, March 31 and April 1 night. No one under 17 admitted. night when school is in session. Every week A Clockwork Orange this semester they are showing episodes of Act 1 and 2 Sunday, March 19 Paradise Kiss and 2x2 Shinobuden, plus this 2128 Center Street Science Fiction Book Club week’s featured show: Mushishi. Berkeley Borderlands Books Midnight www.borderlands-books.com Monday, March 20 Local band The Holy Kiss will perform 866 Valencia St. Bay Area Science Fiction Association before the Stanley Kubrick classic. San Francisco The Original Hick’ry Pit 6 p.m. 980 E. Campbell Ave. Free Campbell This month’s book is Declare by 8 p.m. Tim Powers. Please contact Jude at Free [email protected] for www.basfa.org. more information. Wednesday, March 22 Christopher Moore Copperfield’s Montgomery Village 2316 Montgomery Drive Santa Rosa 7 p.m. Free More Events Next Page 25 Saturday, April 1, 2006 danceable cartoon music during the Monday, April 3 The Toon Town Hop intermissions. Cal Animage Alpha Meeting and Showing PEERS Event “There will be a light buffet of T.V. Location TBA Masonic Lodge of San Mateo snacks – everything your mother said was UC Berkeley Campus Doors Open: 7 p.m. bad for you (and she was probably right) Berkeley Dance lesson: 7:15 p.m. and complimentary non-alcholic drinks. www.ocf.Berkeley.edu/~animage/ Dancing begins: 8:00 p.m. Contributions to the buffet are, as always, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $15.00 in advance (by March 25) very welcome. Intermission entertainment Free At the door: $20.00 includes vintage dance performances by the The oldest of the Bay Area’s university From their website: Peers Flying CirCUS and a cartoon music anime clubs hosts a showing every Monday “As any cartoon aficionado can tell sing-along.” night when school is in session. Every week you, some of the best film music actually this semester they are showing episodes of appears in cartoons. In celebration of the Saturday, April 1 Paradise Kiss and 2x2 Shinobuden, plus this classic age of cartoons, we invite you to Rocky Horror Picture Show week’s featured show: Noein. the Toon Town Hop, a vintage dance ball www.picturepubpizza.com inspired by the best cartoon music of the Parkway Speakeasy Theater Monday, April 3 20th century. 1834 Park Blvd. Bay Area Science Fiction Association “Suggested costume is vintage or modern Oakland The Original Hick’ry Pit evening dress (Mouse ears optional!). $6 980 E. Campbell Ave. Guests may also attend as their favorite Midnight Campbell cartoon character (vintage or modern!). Barely Legal Productions presents the 8 p.m. “The dazzlingly versatile Divertimento classic midnight movie every Saturday Free Dance Orchestra will play a multi-period night. No one under 17 admitted. www.basfa.org. program of beautiful and energetic dance music from both classic and modern Sunday, April 2 cartoons. Dance classic waltzes and polkas, Bad Movie Night ragtime teens and 20’s dances, 30’s and 40’s Mesa of Lost Women Swing and fox trot, stirring marches, and The Dark Room Theater a variety of other ballroom and set dances 2263 Mission Street at this wildly varied event. For us diehard San Francisco dancers, there will be DJ dance music darkroomsf.com of some truly off-the-wall but extremely 8 p.m. More Events Next Page $5 26 April 6-9 Monday, April 10 Tuesday, April 11 ConQuest Sac Cal Animage Alpha Meeting and Showing Stanford NewType Anime Club Showing Avalonconventions.com/conquestsac/ Location TBA Room 60-61H Red Lion Hotel UC Berkeley Campus Building 60 Sacramento Berkeley Stanford Campus $35-$45 www.ocf.Berkeley.edu/~animage/ Palo Alto Gaming and sf convention. 7:30 p.m. 8-10:30 p.m. Free Free Saturday-Sunday, April 8-9 The oldest of the Bay Area’s university Alternative Press Expo anime clubs hosts a showing every Monday Thursday, April 13 www.comic-con.org/ape/ night when school is in session. Every week Thrillville’s Ninth Anniversary Show Concourse Exhibition Center this semester they are showing episodes of Forbidden Planet 620 7th Street Paradise Kiss and 2x2 Shinobuden, plus this www.thrillville.net San Francisco week’s featured show: Akazukin Cha Cha. www.picturepubpizza.com Admission fee to be announced Parkway Speakeasy Cinema Exposition for alternative and self- Monday, April 10 1834 Park Blvd. published comics. Bay Area Science Fiction Association Oakland The Original Hick’ry Pit 9:15 p.m. Saturday, April 8 980 E. Campbell Ave. $7 No Name Anime Campbell It’s Thrillville’s ninth anniversary show www.nnanime.com 8 p.m. featuring the all-time science fiction favorite Saratoga Library Free Forbidden Planet and spaced out theremin 13650 Saratoga Ave. www.basfa.org. lounge band Project Pimento live on stage. Saratoga 12:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. or so Friday, April 14 Free Yuri’s Night Celebration Chabot Space & Science Center 10000 Skyline Blvd Oakland www.chabotspace.org

More Events Next Page 27 Sunday, April 16 Monday, April 17 On Saturday will b e a Long Expected Party Science Fiction Book Club Bay Area Science Fiction Association and on Sunday there will be a fun run. Borderlands Books The Original Hick’ry Pit www.borderlands-books.com 980 E. Campbell Ave. Sunday, April 23 866 Valencia St. Campbell Cherry Blossom Festival San Francisco 8 p.m. 8th Annual Anime Costume Parade 6 p.m. Free Sponsored by Japan Video Free www.basfa.org. 1737 Post Street This month’s book is Dark Beyond San Francisco The Stars by local author Frank Robin- Friday, April 21 Noon check in for particiapants son. Author will visit. Please contact Jude Middle Earth Festival 1 p.m. parade starts in front of City Hall at [email protected] for Forum on the Themes of Tolkien Pre-registration deadline April 17 more information. Downtown Vacaville Free www.middleearthfestival.com Costume contest with prizes, contestants Monday, April 17 Free (or at least they don’t have an admission and other cosplayers will march in the Cal Animage Alpha Meeting and Showing fee listed) annual parade ending at San Francisco’s Location TBA The second annual Middle Earth Festival Japantown. The Cherry Blossom Festival, UC Berkeley Campus opens in Vacaville with a symposium. which runs this weekend and the previous Berkeley For more events, see April 22-23 weekend in San Francisco’s Japantown, also www.ocf.Berkeley.edu/~animage/ listing. hosts many other Japanese cultural events, 7:30 p.m. usually including an anime room. Free Saturday and Sunday, April 22-23 Costume contest participants need to The oldest of the Bay Area’s university Middle Earth Festival register in advance at Japan Video, limited anime clubs hosts a showing every Monday Downtown Vacaville slots are available so sign up soon. night when school is in session. Every week www.middleearthfestival.com this semester they are showing episodes of Free Paradise Kiss and 2x2 Shinobuden, plus this Second annual festival to celebrate week’s featured show: Magikano. Tolkien’s work, both the books and the movies adapted from them. Vendors, food booths, staged and walkabout entertainment, games for kids, trivia contest, Gollum Impersonation Contest. More Events Next Page 28 Monday, April 24 Saturday, May 6 Thursday, May 11 Cal Animage Alpha Meeting and Showing The Fairy Tale Masquerade Ball Thrillville’s Mad Mexican Monster Mash Location TBA Masonic Lodge of San Mateo Night of the Bloody Apes UC Berkeley Campus Doors Open: 7:00 p.m. www.thrillville.net Berkeley Dance lesson: 7:15 p.m. www.picturepubpizza.com www.ocf.Berkeley.edu/~animage/ Dancing begins: 8:00 p.m. Parkway Speakeasy Cinema 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $15.00 in advance (by April 29, 1834 Park Blvd. Free 2006) Oakland The oldest of the Bay Area’s university At the door: $20.00 9:15 p.m. anime clubs hosts a showing every Monday $7 night when school is in session. Every week Sunday, May 7 It’s a mad Mexican Monster Mash this semester they are showing episodes Bad Movie Night featuring the lurid South of the Border of Paradise Kiss and 2x2 Shinobuden, plus Battlefield Earth clas-sick Night of the Bloody Apes, with this week’s featured show which will be The Dark Room Theater masked female wrestlers vs a rampaging announced later. 2263 Mission Street rapist apeman and his evil mad scientist San Francisco creator. Live opening act. Monday, April 24 darkroomsf.com Bay Area Science Fiction Association 8 p.m. May 21, 2006 The Original Hick’ry Pit $5 Science Fiction Book Club 980 E. Campbell Ave. Borderlands Books Campbell May 11-14 www.borderlands-books.com 8 p.m. World Horror Con 2006 866 Valencia St. Free Gateway Holiday Inn San Francisco www.basfa.org. www.whc2006.org 6 p.m. The world horror con comes to the bay Free area. This month’s book is the graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Please contact Jude at [email protected] for more information.

More Events Next Page 29 May 26-29, 2006 Sunday, June 11 Saturday, September 2 Fanime Con Sac Con Captain Morgan’s Privateers (We Ain’t Pirates San Jose Convention Center Scottish Rite Center No More) Ball San Jose 6151 H Street PEERS Event www.fanime.com Sacramento Masonic Lodge of San Mateo The largest annual anime convention 10-4 p.m. Doors Open: 7:00 p.m. in the Bay Area. Dealer’s room, panels, $5 Dance Lesson: 7:15 p.m. costume contest, multiple tracks of anime, Comic, toy and anime show, usually has Dancing begins: 8:00 p.m. Asian films, J-pop concert, much more. an anime costume contest. Tickets: $15.00 in advance (by August 26, 2006) May 26-29, 2006 Saturday, July 15 Tickets: $20.00 at the door Baycon Sac-Anime San Jose Doubletree Inn Sacramento area Sunday, September 3 San Jose Details to be announced, the previous Sac Con www..org July shows have been held at the Sunrise Scottish Rite Center $45 until August 31 Mall. 6151 H Street The largest annual general SF conven- Sacramento tion in the Bay area. Dealer’s room, pan- August 4-6 2006 10-4 p.m. els, costume contest, anime room, much Anime Overdose 2006 $5 more. www.animeod.com Comic, toy and anime show, usually has San Francisco an anime costume contest. May 26-29 2006 $30 to ?, $45 at door Kublacon Anime convention. Burlingame Hyatt Regency 1333 Bayshore Highway Burlingame Guests: TBA. Memberships: TBA. Gaming convention.

More Events Next Page 30 September 8-10 October 6-8 Sunday, December 10 Creation Salutes Star Trek: SiliCon Sac Con The 40th Anniversary Celebration www.siliconventions.com Scottish Rite Center Doubletree Hotel Doubletree Hotel 6151 H Street Sacramento San Jose Sacramento 2001 Point West Way $35 until August 31 10-4 p.m. Sacremento $5 Memberships: Gold Weekend Package: November 4 Comic, toy and anime show, usually has $399. Le Bal des an anime costume contest. Creation brings William Shatner and PEERS Leonard Nimoy to Sacramento. And no, Venue: TBD July 6-9, 2007 that’s not a typo on the price. Cheaper No information as yet for this vampire- Westercon 60: Gnomeward Bound packages will be announced later. theme ball event. DoubleTree Hotel San Jose

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