Idea #12 Interior Pages + Back Cover
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Number 12 Top left: PNH, David Schroth, Lydy Cover: Right front: Roscoe, Back: Dean Gahlon, Top: Eileen Lufkin, Laura Krentz, Elizabeth, Laura, Maureen, Beth, Joyce Maureen Kincaid Speller Scrivner, Eileen Left: Sue Mason, Patrick Nielsen Center front: David Harsh, Laura, Doug Hayden, Lydia Nickerson Wickstrom, Beth, PNH; Back: Eileen, Bottom Front: Roscoe Bendtsen, Karen Johnson, Mark Richards, David Beth Friedman, Rachel & Judy Dyer-Bennet, David S., Sue, Lydy, Dean Rosenberg, Elise Matthesen; Bottom left front: David S., Laurel Krahn, Standing: Eileen, DavE Romm, TAFF-on-a-stick Sue, David H.; Standing: PNH, Mark, Maureen, Elizabeth Bendtsen, 1998 & 2000 Lydy, Eileen, Laura, Dean, Doug Felicia Herman Bottom right: Maureen, Michael Pins Interlino Express I’m out of cigarettes, I’m out of whisky, and I’m out of Geri Sullivan: TAFF-on-a-stick . Cover beer. I might as well go Geri Sullivan: Editorial . 2 change my shoes. The hotel Jeff Schalles: Adventures in the Wimpy Zone, part 8 . 7 is not yet scheduled to ✒ Jae Leslie Adams, title artist become a parking ramp. Ulrika O’Brien: Tales of an Unqualified TAFFgirl . 14 PEZ is the first syllable of ✒ Jae Leslie Adams, title artist Zeppelin spelled backwards. Dave Langford: Minicon Diary . 23 Wood lice have no tusks. ✒ Jae Leslie Adams, title artist …and what soft Beast, its ✒ Martin Hoare, The Art of Roundsmanship yellow fingers wide, slouches John M. Ford & Elise Matthesen: Guy Fawkes Songbook . 38 toward Easterland to ’73… ✒ Jae Leslie Adams, title artist Sexual freedom through Rob Hansen: Once in a Lifetime… . 41 all-edible, certified organic ✒ Jae Leslie Adams, title artist edible underwear. Sorry, ✒ Craig Smith, artist I’ve got to stay home and Jack Targonski, Two Years After . 43 change quote marks. …once ✒ Jae Leslie Adams, title artist they found they were not to Readers: Park & LoC It . 45 be robbed or starved they ✒ Jae Leslie Adams, title artist complained bitterly about ✒ The Beck, artist the quality of the tea... Of Andrew Plotkin . Bacover course. And on Sunday night, ✒ Jae Leslie Adams, title artist we garnished the punchbowl with plastic duckies. Additional art credits: Jae Leslie Adams: 1 Kale Liberation Front, Dave ATom: 6, 64 (originally in Pulp), 74 (originally Langford, Teresa Nielsen in Duplicating Without Tears) Hayden, Patrick O’Brian, Mitch Pockrandt, Martin Schafer, Sue Mason: 14, 20 Geri Sullivan, Jack Targonski, William Rotsler: 1, 5, 7-9, 11-12, 17-18, 21, 48, and Ben Yalow. 50, 54-57, 60-62, 66, 68-72, 75 Davey Snyder: 29 (photographer) James White: 13 (photographer) Idea Additional credit and thanks to… Volume 2, Number 12 Jeff Schalles: all that scanning (300 dpi & Gestefax 456), color corrections, November 2000 MacMarine, copyprinting, mimeo maintenance, and tolerance Geri Sullivan, Editor Glenn Tenhoff: official Idea logo artist. Accept no substitutes George Flynn and Karen Johnson: “Park & LoC It” proofreading Copyright 2000 by Denny Lien: Proofing through a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat Geri Fitzgerald Sullivan Minneapolis, Minnesota USA Dave Langford and Jae Leslie Adams: patience All rights revert to the Ben Yalow, Mitch Pockrandt, Denny Lien, Linda Lounsbury, Judie Cilcain, contributors upon publication Michael Pins, David Emerson, David S. Cargo, Betsy Lundsten, DavE Romm, Garth Danielson, Margie Lessinger, Scott Imes, Felicia Herman, A SMOTHRA publication Dean C. Gahlon, Martin Schafer, Larry Sanderson, Mike Levin, Ron Searby, past president: fwa Joel Westacott, Kay Drache, Doug Wickstrom, Cally Soukup, Neil Rest, Founding member: Nathan Stohlmann, Lydia Nickerson, Karen Babich, Margo Bratton, Laura Minnesota Fanzine Krentz, Nigel Rowe, Tom Cardy, Beth Friedman, Jack Targonski, David Recovery Act Dyer-Bennet, Jeff Schalles, and all other fen at Not-A-ReinCONation who helped color, collate, and mail Idea 11. Kidney-on-a-stick It’s a pickle. A deep-fried pickle. Maureen Kincaid Speller is chomping into it, right there on the cover of Idea. This is what you’ve waited three years for. This and more. On the “more” front, I ought to be more precise: it’s a deep-fried pickle slice. I have no idea what happens when you try to deep fry a whole pickle, but I expect that someone will be selling something of the sort at the Minnesota State Fair most any year now. It will come on a stick, of course. Most everything does. “I always thought only the nerds in movies wore hats like that, but I suppose there had to “be a reason they do….”—Maureen Kincaid Speller, 9/6/98 -“San Francisco was a little different; it had interesting architecture. Seattle wasn’t much -“different than home. I was starting to think America wasn’t all that alien after all. But the -“Food Building here at the Minnesota State Fair? It’s alien. There’s nothing like it in the UK. -“I can’t imagine there ever would be.”-—Sue Mason, 8/23/00 TAFF-on-a-stick is just one (well, two) of the many notable fannish events that have occurred since the previous issue of Idea. Minneapolis fans have escorted the last two UK TAFF delegates to the Minnesota State Fair, and this year we had so much fun doing so that we turned around and took the fair with us to the Worldcon. Sue Mason, have you forgiven us yet? Or are you still quivering, seeking escape from the state fair mania that haunted your every move long after you left our fair state? The fannish reaction to our Minneapolis in ’73-on-a-stick party at Chicon 2000 suggests our state fair is pretty typical. For the larger varients of the genre, anyway. I quickly lost count of the people talking about how the party reminded them of everything they loved about their fairs, and how they now wanted to go back home and see the real thing again. Madison fans immediately recognized the butter sculpting contest; their fair even does ours one better in that. Minnnesotans only sculpt the dairy princess and her court. (“Princess Kay of the Milky Way.” Yes, really.) A sole sculptor does all the work, sitting in a refrigerated, rotating display case in the dairy building every day of the fair, working away until all of the butter busts are complete down to the last swirl of the princess’ hair. In Madison, if I remember the story correctly, the butter sculpting is open to contestants, and they carve whatever they like. That’s how we did it at the Chicon party. By the end of the night, our “Food Building” table sported butter skylines of the city, a Godzilla butter dildo carved by Brad Foster, complete with pleasure ridges, and other oddities formed from the 20 quarter-pound sticks we started with. Karen Schafer carved three tiny butterheads, each one started from tiny cube. They were just ensmalled counterparts of those in Minnesota, Contributors: Available for the usual from: Jae Leslie Adams, 621 Spruce Street, Madison WI 53715 Geri Sullivan The Beck, 3557 26th Ave. S., Minneapolis MN 55406 Toad Hall John M. Ford, P.O. Box 2424, Loop Station, Minneapolis MN 55402 3444 Blaisdell Ave. S. Rob Hansen, 144 Plashet Grove, East Ham, London E6 1AB UNITED KINGDOM Minneapolis MN 55408-4315 USA Martin Hoare, 45 Tilehurst Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 7TT UNITED KINGDOM Dave Langford, 94 London Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 5AU UNITED KINGDOM 612/825-3558 Sue Mason, 3 York Street, Altrincham, Cheshire WA15 9QH UNITED KINGDOM 612/825-0136 (FAX) Elise Matthesen, 3641 Bloomington Ave. S., Minneapolis MN 55407 Send email to: Idea Ulrika O’Brien, 123 Melody Lane, Apt. C, Costa Mesa CA 94627 <[email protected]> Andrew Plotkin, Red Hat, Inc., 2600 Meridian Parkway, Durham NC 27713 If I don’t have your Jeff Schalles, 3444 Blaisdell Ave. S., Minneapolis MN 55408-4315 signature on file and you’re Craig Smith, 14155 91st Ct., Bothell WA 98011 loccing by email, please Davey Snyder, 2 Newcastle Road, Brighton MA 02135 send a poctsarcd or TIFF. Jack Targonski, 4741 N. Malden, Chicago IL 60640 Glenn Tenhoff, 3033 Georgia Ave. S., St. Louis Park MN 55426 2 complete with hair swirls. We didn’t have a refrigerated workroom, so Terry Garey used the fan she’d been given at the Nippon in ’07 bid party to keep Karen and the butter from overheating. Monday night, Ctein carved a remarkably realistic, artistic dildo, complete with gentle curve and balls at its base. Looked like something you’d see at the Blowfish web site, or at Good Vibrations. By the end of the convention, I was punchy, but not so much so as to succumb to the obvious temptation. I appealed to Sue, who even had fresh lipstick on. I forget who grabbed their cameras, but I’m sure we’ll see the evidence eventually. Especially if any of the photographers were from the Plotka cabal. Five weeks before the Worldcon, I didn’t even know if I was going to the convention, let alone hosting a party suite there for the duration. I’d just enjoyed two weeks in the Hawaiian islands, the first at this year’s Westercon (Conolulu) and the second week on Maui and then the Big Island. Volcanoes. Wow. Must go back and take more pictures. Lava as sculpture. Pahoehoe—glistening and organic. Wow. Any one of several of my shots could be a future Idea cover, though I’d have to spring for high-gloss polyester film “paper” to get the right effect. Or start publishing a web zine; that would be the economical approach. But I’ve shown no signs of doing that yet and, given how long it takes me to do things I want to be doing right NOW, I don’t expect to become a web publisher anytime soon.