CAPTAIN FLASHBACK A fanzine for the 392nd distribution of the Turbo- THE SWORD OF OAKEY: Charged Party-Animal Amateur Press Association, Memory and Metal from the joint membership of Andy Hooper and Carrie Root, residing at 11032 30th Ave. NE Seattle, Not long after January 1st, I was busily typing in WA 98125. E-mail Andy at [email protected], descriptions of old fanzines for auction when the and Carrie at [email protected]. This is a doorbell rang in what seemed to be a particular Drag Bunt Press Production, completed on urgent manner, as if someone were really 2/22/2019. leaning on the button, and making one ring run CAPTAIN FLASHBACK is devoted to old fanzines, directly into another. I bounded up the stairs as monster movies, garage bands and other fascinating fast as I could, to find a delivery driver half- phenomena of the 20th Century. Issue #3 is a grab- concealed behind a long box balanced on the top bag of antique subjects, considering first the return step. I was mystified at first, and assumed it was of a family artifact that made a major impression on something which my brother-in-law Gary had me in my childhood; and a pair of fan articles by shipped to himself in care of us; he has a scheme Mae Strelkov (1917-2000) in the I REMEMBER to transit the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence ENTROPY Department. As the only known fanzine this coming summer in some kind of roped- fan in Northwest Argentina, Mae brought a unique together craft made of kayaks, and has been perspective to her activities. The two articles offered sending us things like winch-drills and solar- here were published in the middle 1980s, and reminded me of similar stories published by powered scooters so that he can collect them on members of the Turbo-Apa in more recent decades. his way to Minnesota…from New Zealand. But the label on the box indicated it had come from the Michigan hinterlands, telling me that it was a gift from my Uncle Tom Oakey. I have always enjoyed Tom’s company when it was to be had, but between his career as a Michigan State Police officer, and his passion for hunting and other ways to spend time in the wilderness, it was a challenge to keep up with him. Tom inherited some genes shared with his great Uncle Arthur Oakey, and his cousin Washington Joseph Oakey, who was once trapped in a tree by a wounded moose for several hours. Arthur was a one-time high school principal who seems to have retreated to a cabin in the woods and spent the bulk of his last 20 years up in the forests around Rhinelander. The preserved skin and head of a fairly robust black bear decorated a wall or the back of a couch in my grandmother’s house, courtesy of Tom’s marksmanship. I was induced to pose nude on this pelt as an infant, which sadly failed [Continued on Page 6] My Grandfather Phil Oakey’s dress saber --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue #3, February, 2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I look at the clock, I look at the blade, and I suddenly realize: I haven’t peened my tang! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments on Turbo-Apa #391: Changing from a fixed deadline to a floating date 30 days after distribution would not, I think, Cover (Jeannie Bergman): Once again, I’m bode well for our long term survival. The certain just croggled at the quality of the art and knowledge that the deadline, at least, is imagery that people have been putting on the generally immutable, is the only thing upon front and back of the APA in recent months. which the members of the APA can genuinely This made me think of both Maurice Sendak and depend; change the deadline every single time, H.R. Giger. Well done! and I think we will soon become extinct. Would it be easier to contribute to Turbo if the AN WISCONZINE, Greg Rihn: Aquaman, apa were made available more quickly? Mortal Engines, Mary Poppins Returns: This Certainly, it would; but I also think there are season’s selection of genre films seemed a bit many, many changes that could be made to like the bottom of some barrel was being make it easier to contribute to and receive the scraped; a decade ago, we made jokes about the apa. Everyone should be allowed to submit their possibility of a movie of Aquaman. MPR zines electronically, to be printed, at the seemed like by far the most worthy effort of creator’s expense, at the Madison printing outlet those three; it would be interesting to juxtapose of the OE’s choice. Apas ought to be mailed to its view of magic with The Crimes of everyone the day after they are collated– it costs Grindlewald. less than $3.00, for Gosh sake. When we were Of all the events you reviewed or reacted to all broke graduate students, making people here, the one which really grabbed my bicycle over to my house to pick up the apa imagination was the presentation on historic made sense, as we wanted to save money at all fashion by curator Rose Gamberger at the costs. But I think it would be worth a few bucks Wauwatosa Historical Society. I love to be there a month to have the apa delivered to my door, when musicologists and archivists get to talk even if I still lived in Madison. about the things they find personally interesting, I assume you have a similar list of things as opposed to what everyone sees in the public regarding the apa that you would like to see exhibits. modified, but unlike me, you actually live in Madison, and could receive submissions by hand MADISON FOURSQUARE #28, Scott Custis & if you took over the duties of the OE for a time Jeanne Gomoll: : I was certainly impressed by (yes, Scott, again). A year ought to be plenty of your lists of movies and books enjoyed in 2018. time to establish some new practices, like public As usual, you go to the movies about 8 times for accounts, timely mailing, and yes, a more rigidly every picture we actually see. I guess we have enforced deadlines. And I think you might have put more effort into following a number of more time to recruit new and returning challenging TV shows instead. As ever, you members, now that both of you are retired…. remind me of the late Bill Bowers, who would have found a two-page spread full of lists the I’m philosophically resigned to having Hope and very sublime height of the fanzine art. Karl run the apa, and I’m always going to be grateful to them for all the effort that this has I have not chosen to reply to your proposed required of them for what is rapidly approaching change to the APA deadline yet, as I was hoping 20 years. But I would also eagerly support the to see some response from Hope and Karl before ambition of another Madison resident to have a I did so. A fanzine of some kind from them is try at the job; even to the extent of personally always a signal event, and I thought it possible reimbursing Hope and Karl for the cost of the they might be moved to reply to you; we’ll see. new Turbo-Stapler. 2 SONOVA QUARK, Steven Vincent Johnson: I really contemplate what had been lost, let alone read your remarks on all the tedious calculation worry about assuming responsibility for a going into your orbital mechanics installation. similarly vulnerable and entirely new collection. I’m incapable of following the mathematics At the same time, if people want to send me myself, but the idea still really excites me. It books, I’m not yet at a point where I would tell sounds rather like something an artist would them to stop. I wondered if you might like to create in one of Iain M. Banks’ “Culture” have a copy of WARHOON 28, the collection of novels. Of course, it also sounds like the first Walt Willis’ writing published by Richard step toward something much more sophisticated Bergeron in the late 1970s? It’s one of my – once you’ve fixed the object’s position, it’s favorite of all fan accomplishments, and I have other dimensions can be illustrated – inherited an “extra” copy from the late Randy atmospheric and geological forces, or even Byers. I could auction it off, and probably make cooler, its magnetic field. You might not be $50 or $100, but I think Randy would really like interested in pasting that on top of your sublime to think of it sitting in your newly unflooded orbits, but someone will. library, alongside gifts from Pat Murphy, et al. And I’d make a contribution to TAFF or TAGALONG, Darlene Coltrain: Kitties! I something in honor of the transfer of title. Watch enjoyed the “nature documentary” set in your the skies. living room. Cat stories have always been a staple of the Turbo-Apa, but seldom in such a I appreciated your kind comments on my boldly colorful manner. Back when we started reprints, as well as your personal impressions of the apa, one would have had to tip in actual Ed Wood. As fuggheads go, Ed was not among photographic prints to accomplish a similar the more malicious or toxic figures of his time; impact, and we did just that sometimes.