Lloyd Penney (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lloydpenney) wrote,@ 2009-04-12 19:00:00 |
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Loc on QuasiQuote 8 (Sandra Bond, ed.)
Dear Sandra:
As promised on the chatline, here is a letter of comment on QuasiQuote 8, just as soon as I can get past the cover. Graham, if that’s what she do-oo to you, there are pills to clear it up, and shots to make sure it never comes back. On with the zine!
Soylent Green? More proof that you are what you eat. I wish I could have been in Seattle, but my only two Corflus were Toronto and Las Vegas, and that’s probably all I’ll get to, and that unfortunately includes Corflu Cobalt. Perhaps Peter Weston’s Prolapse is now in its adult stage with Relapse, and once it gets into its dotage, it will be renamed Collapse, and eventually…end. (I was going to say peter out, but Mr. Weston might take offence. The last thing I want to do.)
Interesting review of Joanna Russ’ book of essays. I’d like to read them, having been entertained fairly recently by going on a Russ reading tear.
Yvonne and I are two of Steve Green’s nominators for TAFF, and we’ve also nominated Alison Barton for DUFF. We may be nominators for someone for CUFF, too. I think this may be a first, three fan funds in one year.
I understand Mike Meara’s frustrations at not getting any fanzines at a convention, but I don’t expect anyone to hand them to me, so getting them is always a nice gift. Murray Moore goes to Corflus I don’t, so he will often bring packages of fanzines back for me. He’s even brought back a couple of FAAn Awards for me, too.
Eric Frank Russell…any proof on his being credited for being the actual author of that ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times”?
I try my best to be welcoming to newer people, but there was a time where I wondered where they were all coming from, and wondered if they were crashing my party. Now that I’ve been traveling with the fannish circus for more than 30 years, I sometimes wonder if I am the party crasher now, for things look so different, and we feel like Mom and Dad cruising the con, looking for delinquent kids to punish. Taral’s having his ideal year, and I hope it comes to the point, with a pointy silver rocket.
I know I write fanzine reviews for John Purcell’s fanzine, and while I try some critique, I can’t really criticize the fanzines I review. They serve the purpose of the editor who creates them, and while they are undistinguished in some ways, they match the editor’s personality, for the most part. You find the readership that wants to read your publication. Now that Arnie’s wrapped up VFW, perhaps John can review fanzines for himself, and he won’t need me any more.
I understand Jerry Kaufman’s remarks about e-fandom doing private fanac in a department store window. What I’m doing, I’d like to do with others, and that may be part of the appeal and success of the fannish chat rooms on the Virtual Fan Lounge. However, there is the usual feeling of being quite alone as you write your articles and letters, and even that goes online. My choice, however. Tim Marion’s remarks also ring true, and while I’d like to produce my own fanzine, I need to make sure that I have something to say within it. I think that I have found my niche in fanzine fandom in the locol, and I have been here a while.
Cur Philips is retiring from 19 years of Civil War reenactments? Was it something they said? They probably showered… There’s usually a serious reason for dropping an activity that kept you so busy for so long. I hope that with Curt’s fanzine, delivered to me by Murray Moore from Corflu, the second issue might have a trip report. I should get that first issue locced RSN.
Some fans I know wear what some call hunting vests, and I would call a photojournalism vest, and the back is covered with embroidered patches. I’d like a Fanzine Merit Badge for my Fan Scout sash, please.
Two names not seen in some time…Shep Kirkbride and Joy Hilbert. Art and zines, and nto enough of either, IMHO. Paper-only zines may be the new snobbery, but I don’t think it will have the life of the grand twiltone vs. xero-bond feuds. I think we’re mostly to the point where we don’t care if you’re e- or paper or both, as long as you publish.
Whoops, wound up in the WAHFlist again. Oh, well, at least there’s good company there. After enjoying the Jim Barker on the bacover, I’ll fire this off to you, and save it on my LiveJournal. Take care, see you nextish.
Yours, Lloyd Penney.
Dear Sandra:
As promised on the chatline, here is a letter of comment on QuasiQuote 8, just as soon as I can get past the cover. Graham, if that’s what she do-oo to you, there are pills to clear it up, and shots to make sure it never comes back. On with the zine!
Soylent Green? More proof that you are what you eat. I wish I could have been in Seattle, but my only two Corflus were Toronto and Las Vegas, and that’s probably all I’ll get to, and that unfortunately includes Corflu Cobalt. Perhaps Peter Weston’s Prolapse is now in its adult stage with Relapse, and once it gets into its dotage, it will be renamed Collapse, and eventually…end. (I was going to say peter out, but Mr. Weston might take offence. The last thing I want to do.)
Interesting review of Joanna Russ’ book of essays. I’d like to read them, having been entertained fairly recently by going on a Russ reading tear.
Yvonne and I are two of Steve Green’s nominators for TAFF, and we’ve also nominated Alison Barton for DUFF. We may be nominators for someone for CUFF, too. I think this may be a first, three fan funds in one year.
I understand Mike Meara’s frustrations at not getting any fanzines at a convention, but I don’t expect anyone to hand them to me, so getting them is always a nice gift. Murray Moore goes to Corflus I don’t, so he will often bring packages of fanzines back for me. He’s even brought back a couple of FAAn Awards for me, too.
Eric Frank Russell…any proof on his being credited for being the actual author of that ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times”?
I try my best to be welcoming to newer people, but there was a time where I wondered where they were all coming from, and wondered if they were crashing my party. Now that I’ve been traveling with the fannish circus for more than 30 years, I sometimes wonder if I am the party crasher now, for things look so different, and we feel like Mom and Dad cruising the con, looking for delinquent kids to punish. Taral’s having his ideal year, and I hope it comes to the point, with a pointy silver rocket.
I know I write fanzine reviews for John Purcell’s fanzine, and while I try some critique, I can’t really criticize the fanzines I review. They serve the purpose of the editor who creates them, and while they are undistinguished in some ways, they match the editor’s personality, for the most part. You find the readership that wants to read your publication. Now that Arnie’s wrapped up VFW, perhaps John can review fanzines for himself, and he won’t need me any more.
I understand Jerry Kaufman’s remarks about e-fandom doing private fanac in a department store window. What I’m doing, I’d like to do with others, and that may be part of the appeal and success of the fannish chat rooms on the Virtual Fan Lounge. However, there is the usual feeling of being quite alone as you write your articles and letters, and even that goes online. My choice, however. Tim Marion’s remarks also ring true, and while I’d like to produce my own fanzine, I need to make sure that I have something to say within it. I think that I have found my niche in fanzine fandom in the locol, and I have been here a while.
Cur Philips is retiring from 19 years of Civil War reenactments? Was it something they said? They probably showered… There’s usually a serious reason for dropping an activity that kept you so busy for so long. I hope that with Curt’s fanzine, delivered to me by Murray Moore from Corflu, the second issue might have a trip report. I should get that first issue locced RSN.
Some fans I know wear what some call hunting vests, and I would call a photojournalism vest, and the back is covered with embroidered patches. I’d like a Fanzine Merit Badge for my Fan Scout sash, please.
Two names not seen in some time…Shep Kirkbride and Joy Hilbert. Art and zines, and nto enough of either, IMHO. Paper-only zines may be the new snobbery, but I don’t think it will have the life of the grand twiltone vs. xero-bond feuds. I think we’re mostly to the point where we don’t care if you’re e- or paper or both, as long as you publish.
Whoops, wound up in the WAHFlist again. Oh, well, at least there’s good company there. After enjoying the Jim Barker on the bacover, I’ll fire this off to you, and save it on my LiveJournal. Take care, see you nextish.
Yours, Lloyd Penney.
