The Space Between Cons

[akirlu]

Corflu was this past weekend, and Potlatch the weekend yet to come. I managed to pub a little ish for Corflu, a thing I call fringe. The (first?) issue was dedicated to finally publishing the various reviews of Joseph Nicholas's legs, and must be deemed at least a provisional success since I've gotten two enthusiastic LoCs within 24 hours of the convention's end. The reviewer and reviewee copies will have to wait until I get home next week, since I didn't even get the darned thing copied off until I had landed in San Francisco. But for now I think Joseph's concern that I might be paying him too little attention in the course of my TAFF report can be safely laid to rest. And that's another TAFF chapter done. Go me. I may not beat Mr. Langfrod in reporting speed, but I'm making good headway against Mr. Hansen. And every American winner since the Moffats. James Bacon (the bastard) has already finished his, but I'm going to take solace in the fact that the pesky young bugger is something akin to half my age. If he gets within striking distance, I shall wallop him with my Zimmer frame. Wallop, wallop, wallop.

Now for a bit of domestic bliss chez Mom & Dad. Hal calls it The Trial of Aggressive Hospitality, which this year takes the form of trying to give or buy me every object I admire and load me down with a bale of new clothes besides. It's all good, because I do understand that there's a certain [spending money=love] thing going on with Mom, but I'm not sure how I'm going to get three bags of luggage through BART by myself when I only came prepared to deal with two. Ah, me.

I have a lingering case of the blues, post con, pre reunion with Hal, but one of Mom's little mongrel dogs has adopted me to the point of spending the nights in my bed, so I can't say I lack for solace.

Comments

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

James Bacon (the bastard) has already finished his

Well, dang, there goes what I thought would be a record of published and for sale within a year.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Has James finished? I know he set himself deadlines he missed but I hadn't heard he'd actually finished. Would be good if he's got it to tout at Eastercon, of course.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Yep, he's finished. Or all but, at least. He's named the copies out at Corflu "prototypes" and sez he'll have the second edition (with better photo reproduction) out at Eastercon.

Can hardly wait to read it myself.

[numbat.livejournal.com]

Mr Langfrod? Wasn't he the gentleman who wrote much early science fiction starring his character Fanglord who constantly battled the evil Astral league?

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

Me, I was thinking of his French cousin, Sangfrod.

But that's just me.

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

"How are you today?"

"Not too good, actually, I watched a Clive Barker film and have a case of the Langfrods."

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

I on the other hand have come down with a really nasty chest cold which I hope you didn't get this weekend. I'm spending today in bed instead of in shopping meccas and having dinner with athenais which upsets me.

As for the extra clothes. Remember that UPS is your friend. Jordin and I often ship home things from trips -- usually boxes of books, but they have occasionally been accompanied by clothes.

MKK

[jerrykaufman.livejournal.com]

Fringe was very amusing. Were you channeling John Clute or just a stray academic? Steve Cain's review does not identify its model but the model is blazingly clear to anyone who has read about, or heard about, British fandom in the 1970s. (The original was even quoted on a panel at Corflu, if I recall correctly.)