The SHUTTLE February 2006 The Next NASFA Meeting will be 18 February 2006 at the Regular Time and Location No Concom Meeting in February There Probably Will be a Concom Meeting in March (stay tuned) { Oyez, Oyez { NASFA Calendar There will not be a Con Stellation concom meeting in FEBRUARY February. Very likely there will be a concom meeting in 01 National Freedom Day. March, probably on Thursday the 16th (two days before the club 02 Groundhog Day. meeting). Stay tuned for details. 08 BD: Lin Cochran. The next NASFA meeting will be Saturday 18 February 09 BD: Jack Lundy. 2006 at the regular time and location. 10 BD: Marcia Illingworth. The February program is TBD at press time 11 BD: Jeanna Woosley. The February after-the-meeting meeting will be at 12 BD: Abraham Lincoln. Nancy Cucci and Ray PietruszkaÕs house. (continued on page 2) Inside this issueÉ Minutes of the January Meeting .....................................2 Razzies Nominations ......................................................3 Screen Actors Guild Awards ..........................................3 No Need for a Ring Ñ Chapter 2....................................4 Oscar and BAFTA Nominations ....................................3 Letters of Comment ........................................................6 Deadline for the March 2006 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Friday, 3 March 2006. 1 (continued from page 1) 28 Arbor Day. 14 St. ValentineÕs Day. 30 BD: Mark Maxwell. 17 BD: Nancy A. Cucci. 17Ð19 StellarCon 30 Ñ High Point NC. MAY 17Ð19 Furry Weekend Atlanta Ñ Atlanta GA. 01 BD: Russell McNutt. 17Ð19 Techwood Con Ñ Atlanta GA. 03 BD: Martha Knowles. 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at 14 MothersÕ Day. BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: Ray Pietruszka 14 BD: Debbie Hughes. and Nancy CucciÕs house. 16 BD: Linda Bolgeo. 20 PresidentÕs Day. 18 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting (Tentative). 21 BD: Susan Stockell. 19 BD: David O. Miller. 22 BD: George Washington. 19Ð21 Mobicon 9 Ñ Mobile AL. 24Ð26 SheVaCon 14 Ñ Roanoke VA. 20* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at 24Ð26 ConDFW V Ñ Richadson (Dallas) TX. BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. 24Ð26 MegaCon Ñ Orlando FL. 20 BD: Mike Glicksohn. 20 Armed Forces Day. MARCH 27 BD: Kathy Paulk. 02 BD: Ronnie Lajoie. 26Ð28 Rocket City FurMeet 4 Ñ Huntsville AL. 03Ð05 Starfleet Region 2 Summit Ñ Birmingham AL. 26Ð28 OASFiS 19 Ñ Orlando FL. 08 BD: Bill Payne. 26Ð28 ConQuest 37 Ñ Kansas City MO. 09 BD: Tracey Kennedy. 29 Memorial Day. 10 BD: Kerry Gilley. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 13 BD: Anita Eisenberg. 15 BD: Carlo DeShouten. The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on 15Ð19 International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts the third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large 27 Ñ Ft. Lauderdale FL. nearby convention being held that weekend Ñ in which case 16 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting (Tentative). we often move the meeting to the second or fourth weekend.) 17 St. PatrickÕs Day. The regular meeting location is the upstairs meeting room at 17 BD: JoAnn Parsons. BookMark on South Memorial Parkway. The Executive 17Ð19 FantaSciCon 2006 Ñ Chattanooga TN. Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The business 18* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is welcome to BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after-the- 18Ð19 MomoCon 2006 Ñ Atlanta GA. meeting meeting with directions available at the program. 20 First Day of Spring. 22 BD: Jayson Woosley. 23Ð26 AggieCon 37 Ñ College Station TX. 24Ð26 MidSouthCon 24 Ñ Memphis TN. January Minutes 24Ð26 CoastCon 29 Ñ Biloxi MS (NOTE: this was scheduled by Steve Sloan, Secretary pre-Katrina, so change is very possible). 26 SciFi Spring Break Ñ Stone Mountain GA. The January meeting of the North Alabama Science Fic- 30 BD: Maurine Dorris. tion Association was called to order on Saturday, January 21, 31Ð02 Technicon 23 Ñ Blacksburg VA. 2006 in the Book Mark upstairs meeting room at 6:24:06 PM by President Mary Ortwerth. APRIL We need better candy than weÕve been getting lately, but 01 April FoolÕs Day. the Candy Bringer Lady/Laddie is not an official position listed 02 Daylight Savings Time begins. in the bylaws. There was a suggestion about amending the 07 BD: Mary Ortwerth. bylaws to include the position, but nothing further came of it. 09 Palm Sunday. The club was $18.43 to the good last year. 13Ð16 Frolicon Ñ Atlanta GA. OLD BUSINESS 13 Passover. None. 13 Con Stellation ConCom Meeting (Tentative). NEW BUSINESS 14 Good Friday. Sam Smith got a couple of emails from Shelby Vick, who 15* NASFA Meeting Ñ 6P Business, 7P Program, at is a fan from way back. He has three more whole fanzines that BookMark. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. heÕs scanning, converting to PDF, and posting on the web. HeÕs 15 BD: ÒUncle TimmyÓ Bolgeo. posting Scientifantasy #1, [something] #14, and Confusion 16 Easter. #12. Sam has the Scientifantasy issue on his memory stick. The 17 Income Tax Day. term Òmemory stickÓ tickled Karen, and led to a short but often 21 BD: Randy B. Cleary. silly geekfest about operating systems and Bayesian filters. 21Ð23 Middle Tennessee Anime Convention Ñ Nashville This was countered by a discussion about MaryÕs flower TN. choices. 21Ð23 ShowMeCon Ñ St. Louis MO. CONVENTION BUSINESS 22 Earth Day. There will be one. 26 BD: Chloie Airoldi. We have a draft flyer prepared and marked up for later 26 Administrative ProfessionalsÕ Day. discussion. 2 Sam Smith coaxed some new hit counts for our web sites categories. out of the server: the Con Stellation site had 469 hits, the King Kong leads the NASFA site had 99 hits, and the Deep South Con 40 site got 63 pack with a total of 7 hits. Sam removed the ancient Deep South Con site on January noms, including Oscar 1st, but the statistics were compiled in December, so a few more nods for Art Direction, hits came in. Maybe the hits to that site will end now, but IÕm Sound Editing, Sound not holding my breath. This led to a discussion of why the DSC Mixing, and Visual site still gets hits. The hits mostly came from search engine Effects plus BAFTA picks robots, but there were still a few people looking for the DSC in Production Design, Masquerade pages. Sound, and Special Vis- According to Mike Cothran, the Masquerade from a ual Effects. Close behind couple of years ago, with Anita and her bunnies, ranks highly is The Chronicles of Nar- in web searches for Con Stellation. nia: The Lion, the Witch The meeting adjourned at 6:32:08 PM. and the Wardrobe with 6 For the program, Doug carried out his threat to make the creditsÑ Makeup, Sound long, boring campaign speech he promised when we elected Mixing, and Visual Ef- him Programming Director. It wasnÕt too bad, with some fects in the Oscars; Cos- liberal borrowing from Monty Python sketches. tume Design, Special The After-the-Meeting Meeting was held at Sam SmithÕs Visual Effects, and Ma- apartment. IÕm pretty sure everybody attending read WhereÕs keup & Hair in the BAFTAs. Then comes Charlie and the My Cow?, the illustrated Discworld childrenÕs book by Terry Chocolate Factory with 5 nods. Those include 4 BAFTA Pratchett. I know I did. noms (Production Design, Costume Design, Special Visual Effects, and Makeup & Hair) and one Oscar honor in Costume Design. Both Batman Begins and Harry Potter and the Goblet of SF Sags in SAGs Fire garnered 4 nominations. Batman grabbed a Cinematogra- phy pick in the Oscars plus BAFTA nods for Production Genre works had been mostly overlooked in the 12th Design, Sound, and Special Visual Effects. PotterÕs noms were annual Screen Actors Guild Award nominations (see the also split one-and-three, with an Oscar nod for Art Direction January Shuttle) announced in early January, so their dismal plus BAFTA nods for Production Design, Special Visual total in the final awards presented 29 January 2006 came as no Effects, and Makeup & Hair. surprise. Arguable-genre TV show Lost did come away with a War of the Worlds came away with 3 Oscar noms Ñ for win in the Drama Ensemble category while more-tenuously- Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects. The Myste- related 24 resulted in an Actor in a Drama Series win for Kiefer rious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello received Sutherland. both the Oscar and BAFTA nods for Animated Short. Wallace Patricia Arquette (Medium) was shut out in the Actress in & Grommit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was picked in the a Drama Series category, but at least that made three TV noms. Oscar Animated Feature and BAFTA Outstanding British No genre works were nominated for SAG Awards in any of the Film of the Year categories. big-screen categories. Six more genre films received one nomination: 9 (Oscar Animated Short), Badgered (Oscar Animated Short), HowlÕs Moving Castle (Oscar Animated Feature), Rabbit (BAFTA Short Animation), Star Wars: Episode III Ñ Revenge of the Oscar and BAFTA Noms Sith (Oscar Makeup), and Tim BurtonÕs Corpse Bride (Oscar Animated Feature). In this post-LotR era, major award nominations for genre The 2005 Orange British Academy Film Awards (spon- films are relatively scarce. Nonetheless some attention was sored by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) will paid to sf/fantasy works in the recently announced 2005 be presented Sunday 19 February 2006 at the Odeon Leicester nominations for the Academy Awards (Oscars) and the Orange Square in London. The 78th Academy Awards will be pre- British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs). As usual, genre sented on Sunday 5 March 2006 at the Kodak Theater in films were very strong in some of the technical and animation Hollywood and televised live on ABC.