Worldcon swag

[randy_byers]

Zines:

* Bento 18, ed. kateyule & the Hugo-annointed davidlevine
* Yhos 63, ed. R. Twidner, who was my roommate & singlemalt-pimp
* No Award 16, ed. Marty Cantor, who kept me distracted during Chunga's Hugo loss with baseball geeking (thanks, Marty!)
* Into the Vortex 43, ed. jamesb (a Sproutlore zine that keeps jumping on my leg)
* put it this way, an inscribed poetry chapbook from Michael Layne Heath, whom I met for the first time
* Voyage 2, ed. Bill Rotsler (a portfolio zine copyright MCMLXXI)
* Hyphen 9, the first copy of this legendary Walt Willis zine in my collection
* Hyphen 33, which actually belongs to akirlu, but I toted it for her
* Why You Got This Zine 4, "ed." Kathleen Moore-Freeman and consisting of a long "why you got this zine" checklist with entries such as "Nous cherchons des plages perdues", "Spam filters don't work on hard copy", "You foundered on it in a dark and stormy night", "You buttered our muffins for us when we really needed them buttered", and "We've been taking most of our medication." Joe Bob gives it two thumbs way up. But way up what?

Books:

* Murder of a Mistress by Henry Kuttner -- an ancient Permabooks paperback mystery.
* The Day He Died by Lewis Padgett -- an ancient Bantam books paperback mystery.
* Prince of Peril & The Port of Peril by Otis Adelbert Kline -- two old Ace paperbacks with cool covers by Roy Krenkel.
* A Columbus of Space by Garrett P. Serviss -- another reprint from Apogee, whose edition of Serviss' Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898) I read most of on this trip, after finishing Dick's A Scanner Darkly on the flight down.
* Absolutely no first edition hardcovers of Leigh Brackett or CL Moore novels, although I fondled them desirously all convention long.

Tat:

* A Hugo nomination rocket pin (plus two for my co-editors).
* A wooden box used for drinking sake, which was a gift to Hugo nominees from Japan in 2007 (plus two for my co-editors, all of which were acquired thanks to the generous intervention of spikeiowa, since I spaced out picking them up at the post-Hugos party).
* A bandana from the Japan in 2007 party.
* Two little clip-on plush koalas from the Australia in 2010 party.
* A kangaroo scrotum from the fan fund auction, because I'm told I need to grow some balls. Sadly, women typically cringed away from it.
* A rubberband-propelled foam rubber Brewster Rockit.

Bulbs:

* A box of Ipheon Uniflorum from don_fitch, who told me this is an early winter blossom. Must plant soon!

Dosh:

* A wad of bills & checks worth approximately $300 according to hawkida, who collected the money at the kick-ass TAFF party Saturday night and asked me to pass the money along to svtompkins for the North American fund, which partially paid for the suite.
* $7 for additional presupporting memberships for the LesSeaCon bid, which I need to pass along to marykaykare, along with the names of the presupporters. Marci suggested that all members of the con should have a self-selected title, and one of the new presupporters -- a friend of n6tqs -- requested the title of Surly Oaf.

Poctsarcd:

* One written by taffbug for Dale Speirs, whose address she had packed in her luggage before she wrote the card. I brought the card to Seattle, put Dale's address on it, and mailed it this morning.