Swimming in fanzines
Apr. 12th, 2010 08:57 amGood weekend, although I failed to mow the mile-high lawn because I was such a social butterfly. Went to the Rat City Roller Girls on Saturday. Hiked along Dexter to Queen Anne in the glorious sunshine. Met
daveon, M, and Dave's brother at TS McHugh's, where we were eventually also joined by Nick. The roller derby was fun, although I still can't really follow the action very well, so it still seems largely arbitrary (i.e., fake) to me. There were close to six thousand people in the crowd, which is pretty amazing, really. Afterward M went home and the boys went to a Thai restaurant and then a bar. Next thing I knew it was 1:30am. I didn't feel like waiting around for a rare bus or paying for a cab, so I hiked back to Fremont. Didn't get home until almost 2:30.
Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my bald head for no good reason. Went up to Andy's for a Chungatorial meeting. We sat outside and shot the breeze. I observed that I'm sometimes amazed that we have gotten to our seventeenth issue. I never imagined we would last this long when we published the first issue of Chunga in 2002 (although I believe in that first ish I did actually fantasize about issue 23 in an attempt at humor). Anyway, after that it was off to the pubmeet with carl. Jerry Kaufman had a batch of fanzines that had been handed out at Corflu, including the latest Banana Wings and No Sin But Ignorance, plus a beautiful new issue of Novoid from Colin Hinz and a Dr Who fanzine from Lilian Edwards.
jackwilliambell told me about his trip to NYC (first time he'd ever been there) with
scarlettina. The group conversation even turned sercon at one point when we got on the topic of John Schoenherr's artwork for Analog. Schoenherr died on the 8th at the age of 74. carl stopped by the house for a while after that so he could try a bottle of Colette, which is an interesting new farmhouse ale from Great Divide. Then I sent carl away and slumped in a dull stupor until I got hungry and popped down to the Pacific Inn for some late night fish and chips.
It was all a lot of fun, but I do regret not mowing the lawn. The weather was perfect for it, too. Next weekend it will probably be raining again.
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Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my bald head for no good reason. Went up to Andy's for a Chungatorial meeting. We sat outside and shot the breeze. I observed that I'm sometimes amazed that we have gotten to our seventeenth issue. I never imagined we would last this long when we published the first issue of Chunga in 2002 (although I believe in that first ish I did actually fantasize about issue 23 in an attempt at humor). Anyway, after that it was off to the pubmeet with carl. Jerry Kaufman had a batch of fanzines that had been handed out at Corflu, including the latest Banana Wings and No Sin But Ignorance, plus a beautiful new issue of Novoid from Colin Hinz and a Dr Who fanzine from Lilian Edwards.
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It was all a lot of fun, but I do regret not mowing the lawn. The weather was perfect for it, too. Next weekend it will probably be raining again.