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Editorial Notes by Mike Glyer
1983, when members collated and mailed the
whole thing while I was in Boston for IRS
training. Now that’s hospitality. In 2002,
Alan White celebrated the birth of my
daughter, Sierra, by publishing and sending
me
File 770’s
first color cover. Thank you!
The zine has paced the changes in pub-
lishing technology since 1978. My hand-
crank mimeo lasted as long as it did with the
help of a mimeo repairman located by Marty
Cantor, who staved off the inevitable ‘til my
Gestetner finally became more proficient at
spewing ink than printing it. Then Gordon
Garb did me a great favor by giving me his
late father’s motorized mimeo equipment so
File 770
could keep going.
In the dawning age of computers I discov-
ered how to cut stencils with a dot-matrix
printer. The late Irene Danziger created
File
770’s
first true desktop publishing layouts in
1991 to take better advantage of the cheap
photocopying Gavin Claypool clued me onto
at CalTech. (It didn’t stay cheap for long.
They must have worked the math.)
Once I made the transition to Xerox, fa-
nartists no longer had to take a deep breath
before peeking at their art inside the latest
File 770
. This is the 71
st
issue to feature art
by Brad Foster. There are artists I have been
publishing since before this zine began, in-
cluding Alan White, Taral, Grant Canfield,
Sheryl Birkhead and Bill Rotsler.
Diana, my wife, has been the muse and
sometimes conscience of
File 770
(reading
drafts and asking, “Did you really mean to
insult this person?” Actually, I didn’t….) She
has been behind two big developments this
past year, the color cover on #150, and my
new
File770.com
blog (her Christmas gifts to
me included the domain name and the host-
ing service.) You are a jewel beyond price.
Warner’s FAPAzine chugged along for
decades. So did Tackett’s and the Coulsons’
genzines. Fred Patten’s APA-Lzine is still
appearing weekly after 44 years. Never a
fannish newzine. If they
did
last, we could be
celebrating the 35
th
anniversary of my short-
lived fannish newzine
Organlegger
which
lasted a few months in 1973 (more on this
elsewhere). As it is, I’m very glad I got a
second chance.
Do you think you’re living in the Prime
Timeline? Here’s proof you’re living in a
slice of alternate history. This is the 30
th
anniversary issue of
File 770
and, as every-
one knows, fannish newzines never last.
File 770 #1
came off the mimeograph in
January 1978. In 2008, I kicked off the 30
th
anniversary celebration by scanning that
issue for eFanzines promptly attracting a
fresh review by Chris Garcia and a brief loc
from Mike McInerney. There’s nothing to
beat the energy that surrounds a newzine.
Egoboo is better than royalties.
When Linda Bushyager was about to
retire
Karass
, the leading fannish newzine of
the mid-1970s, she encouraged me to take
the baton. My interest was high, and has
stayed that way ever since, and I give the
credit for that to everyone who has partici-
pated over the years.
Thanks to the hundreds of you who have
sent news, articles, letters and art over the
years. Thanks to fans who devotedly LoC
nearly every zine they get, not only this one.
Thank you subscribers, including the fans
still receiving
File 770
that began as Austin
in ’85 NASFiC bid supporters and sub-
scribed in order to ballot-stuff the
File 770
survey. I’m glad you stuck around: we had
fun, you guys ran a great con, and I can say
there was one year I didn’t lose money on
the zine (because I was still $25 ahead at the
end of 1983).
I have been lucky enough to publish every
type of material on my original wish list,
from a Worldcon GoH’s speech (Race Mat-
thews, 1985) to fanartist portfolios, and a
chapter from a TAFF trip report (James Ba-
con granted that wish in 2005).
There also have been wonderful opportu-
nities and surprises. Richard Bergeron gave
me pre-publication sheets from the famous
Willis issue of
Warhoon
to distribute in the
zine.
File 770’s
first 85 issues were mimeo-
graphed -- #42 on luxuriant Twiltone paper
courtesy of a NESFA publishing party in
152
available for news, artwork,
arranged trades, or by
subscription: $8 for 5 issues, $15
for 10 issues, air mail rate is
$2.50.
E-Mail: Mikeglyer@cs.com
Brad Foster: Cover, 8, 13, 40
Bill Rotsler: 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 14, 17,
21, 28, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47
Terry Jeeves: 38, 39
Chaz Boston Baden: 4
Tim Kirk: 6
Bill Higgins: (photo) 11
Alan Stewart: (photo) 19
Steve Stiles: 4, 32, 34
Stu Shiffman: 33, 36
Tim Marion: (photo) 7 (1974)
File 770:152 is edited by Mike
Glyer at 705 Valley View Ave.,
Monrovia CA 91016. File 770 is
Art Credits
Grant Canfield: 30, 42, Bacover
Alan White: 3, 5, 10, 12, 29, 31
Art Credits
March 2008 3
Thieves Go First Cabin
Frank Denton discovered his cabin near Mt.
Rainier had been broken into when he ar-
rived to prepare it for a New Year’s gather-
ing of friends. Someone using bolt cutters
had sliced the Master lock off the back win-
dow shutters to get in, leaving the curtains
ominously blowing in the breeze. A number
of appliances and lots of blankets were taken.
Frank has published
The Rogue Raven
for
many years, a name he also uses for his blog.
I always remember him as the first person to
ask me onto a convention program (at that
same 1973 Westercon where Elst and I
pubbed
Organlegger
).
Higgins Scores Landslide
on Super Tuesday
Illinois fan Bill Higgins became the envy of
every big-name candidate in the Super Tues-
day primaries when he polled 100% of the
Democratic votes cast in Naperville’s 23
rd
precinct. He was running for precinct com-
mitteeman. Higgins can expect a call for
advice from Illinois’ U.S. Senator Barack
Obama, who polled merely 68% of the Na-
perville Democratic vote. Also, the 204 votes
for Higgins was 60 more than the precinct’s
Republican voters cast for his counterpart.
That’s an encouraging sign on the road to
November, for as Bill wrote in his blog, “The
Democrats have, let us say, a lot of room for
growth in Dupage County.”
The fan who styles himself “W. Skeffing-
ton Higgins” (when sharing deep thoughts
online) answered the call of the Naperville
Township Democratic Organization’s re-
cruitment drive. He contributed to the largest
increase of any township in the county --
from 6 precinct committeemen in 2006 to 25
in 2008.
Higgins will be expected to walk the pre-
cinct, canvass the voters, pass out informa-
tion on the party’s candidates, encourage
people to register to vote, and find out on
election day who hasn’t voted yet so calls
can be made to get out the vote.
Bill is a well-known panelist at Midwest
conventions who often speaks about science,
spaceflight and planetary exploration. Bill
joined Fermilab in 1978, famed for its giant
accelerators and particle beams, to work on
issues including radiation safety. His fanac
covers the spectrum: fanzines, filksinging,
art, conrunning.
/DVR NE '@MCNL
Tom Digby, the wildly inventive fanhu-
morist, originated the line Larry Niven used
for the title of his popular story, “What Can
You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole
Covers?” Tuckerized members of the Los
Angeles Science Fantasy Society are fea-
tured in a romp that begins at a fictional
version of the 1968 party where Bruce Pelz
and Dian (now Crayne) celebrated the final-
ity of their divorce. (Yes, there really was a
cake with a little bride and groom on top
facing in opposite directions.) During the
story “Tom Findlay,” the character based on
Digby, was revealed to be an alien — and to
this day LASFSians haven’t entirely ruled
out that explanation.
LASFS holds a gift exchange during the
Christmas season. It’s always leavened with
gag gifts. I got the Flatbed Mimeo one year. I
still have on my bookshelf one of the many
copies of
Zotz!
that cycled through the
exchange.
Another traditional gag gift I held
for a year was the genuine chocolate-
covered manhole cover. The real-life
version was made by chocolate-
coating a pancake-sized steel lid from
a natural gas main, rather than a full-
sized manhole cover. The winner was
supposed to stash it in his or her
freezer and put it back into the next
year’s exchange. Except, it never re-
appeared in the 2007 gift exchange.
“This is like the swallows deciding
not to visit Capistrano this year,”
wrote Milt Stevens in his appeal to
readers of the LASFS newzine De
Profundis. “It’s very disturbing. Sev-
eral fans are going to have anxiety
attacks if it doesn’t return. So check
the clutter around your residence pod
just in case you have the Chocolate
Covered Manhole Cover. If you do,
please give it back.”
Be on the Lookout
for a Chocolate-Covered
Manhole Cover
After almost 40 years there’s something new
to say about a chocolate-covered manhole
cover. It’s missing.
Bill Higgins strikes a stfnal pose in
this photo from the 2007 Moonbase Con-
Fusion website. He was their Fan GoH.
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Samaritan Medal: (L) Obverse; (M) Reverse. (R) Designer Steve Stiles (photo by Chaz Boston Baden).
Stiles-Designed Samaritan
Medal Goes to Shimon Peres
Steve Stiles’ dramatic new artwork is unlike
any he’s done before.
He writes: “Ages ago I was commis-
sioned (thanks to the efforts of Michael Dob-
son and his contacts in the Lutheran Church)
to design a medal, intended to further the
cause of peace, for the Samaritan community
in Israel. Recently it was finally cast and
Shimon Peres has agreed to accept this Sa-
maritan Medal Sunday, February 17 at the
President’s House in Tel Aviv.”
The Samaritan Medal for Peace and Hu-
manitarian Achievement is awarded for dis-
tinguished service, the only one of various
Samaritan medals actually awarded by the
original Samaritan people of Israel.
The Medal is made of pure silver, two
inches in diameter, with a scene from the
parable of the Good Samaritan on the front,
and the sacred Mount Gerizim on the re-
verse.
Recipient Shimon Peres, now Israel’s
President, was its Foreign Minister when he
shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with
Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin.
Steve Stiles has worked in virtually every
medium, from comic strips to modern ab-
stracts, but this is his first medal design. He
is a frequent Hugo Award nominee, and a
past winner of the FAAn Award and the
Rotsler Award.
Datclave Redux
One more sign of the Millennium? The
Washington Science Fiction Association now
holds Datclave more often than Disclave.
The very first Datclave was held Leap
Year weekend of 1980 according to a club
rule that a con be held whenever there is a
fifth Friday in the month of February. This
can happen only once every 28 years. And
while Datclave II just took place, the club
stopped holding Disclave, its big Memorial
Day convention, in 1997. (WSFA now spo-
nosrs Capclave in the fall.) That’s why the
proverbial turtle is going to win this race.
The fellow who chaired the first Datclave,
Kent Bloom, claimed a prior conrunning
commitment this year, so Bob McIntosh was
TAFF Tally Five Star Final
Candidates
Europe
votes
North Amer-
ica votes
Rest of
world votes
tors discovered more valid ballots after
they originally announced a total of 174.
The correct count includes 126 ballots
from North America and 54 from Europe.
A list of the voters, and a regional break-
down of where votes came from and who
they went to, can be found in the latest
TAFF report at http://taff.org.uk/.
The unofficial TAFF site also has Chris
Garcia’s preliminary itinerary: “He reports
that so far he is: arriving on the 15
th
[March] and leaving on the 30th; traveling
to various parts of the UK including Croy-
don on the 15
th
/16
th
, North London for the
17
th
/18
th
, and then to Eastercon. After the con, he is planning to
visit folks in Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.”
Chris Garcia has been sent $2,000 to work with and there still
remains $7,982.23 in TAFF’s North American bank account, Suzle
says in the report.
Total
Chris Barkley
0
13
0
13
Linda Deneroff
4
26
0
30
Chris Garcia
41
66
0
107
Christian McGuire
4
14
0
18
Hold Over Funds
0
2
0
2
No Preference
5
5
0
10
Total
54
126
0
180
Fans learned weeks ago that voters picked Chris Garcia to be the
2008 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegate. Now the administrators,
Suzle Tompkins and Bridget Bradshaw, have released the final
voting tallies and a brief financial report.
The final ballot count increased to 180 because the administra-
March 2008 5
pressed into service. Datclave II was, as the
flyer says, “the Washington D.C. Relaxacon
with the Gettysburg Address., held at the
Hotel Gettysburg on Lincoln Square, Febru-
ary 29-March 2.
Samuel Lubell commented online, “We
had about 40-45 people including Kent
Bloom who chaired the first Datclave. The
highlight for many was the tour of the Get-
tysburg battlefield conducted by WSFA’s
own military historians Bob MacIntosh and
Lee Strong.
“As for Datclave ever catching up to Dis-
clave, the turtle will eventually catch up yes,
but I believe there were 44 Disclaves. We
hold Datclave every 28 years so that means
catching up in the year 3184 (or maybe 3212
depending on whether 2400 is a leap year or
not). Unless of course the singularity hap-
pens first. So I wouldn’t hold my breath.
“Of course, by then Capclave
(www.capclave.org) will have long since
won the race, so come join our GOHs James
Morrow and Michael Dirda at Capclave on
October 17-19, 2008.”
votes came from: USA, 185; Australia, 15;
Canada, 8; UK, 7; New Zealand, 1; Holland,
1; Sweden, 1.
WHERE Ð770Ñ
COMES FROM
Judkowitz Recognized
by Workmen’s Circle
Ruth Judkowitz, long-time LASFSian and
“chairmentsh” of the Workmen’s Circle of
Southern California district, forwards a link
to an article in the January 25 issue of the
Jewish Journal
about Edward Asner deliver-
ing the keynote address at the Workmen’s
Circle Centennial Gala:
“See the attached story for a reference to
moi
. I wrote the parody lyrics for ‘California,
Here I Come’ as well as the musical arrange-
ment and I was named Member of the Year
— these facts are conspicuously absent from
the article, but Ed Asner is the one who sells
the papers.”
That’s a mistake we won’t repeat.
Fancy Fanac
Laurie Mann has started a FANAC commu-
nity LiveJournal <http:-//community.-
livejournal.com/fanac>. Its first posting fea-
tured a photo from a '70s LASFS meeting,
with a few fans they’re still trying to iden-
tify.
FANAC has handled the fan and World-
con history exhibits at most Worldcons.
They plan to exhibit at Denvention. FANAC
was created and funded by the Florida Asso-
ciation for Nucleation And Conventions
(F.A.N.A.C.), Inc. which sponsored Magi-
Con, the 50
th
World Science Fiction Conven-
tion in 1992. Laurie adds, “We're always
eager for more help!”
Jim Caughran, too, is always looking for
writers to work with the online Fancyclope-
dia, <http://fancylopedia.editme.com>. He
reports it has added a piece about the Knights
of St Fantony, by Peter Weston (from
Prolapse
11), and an entry by Frederic
Gooding about the Langdon Chart, adapted
from Rich Lynch’s outline of 1960s fanhis-
tory.
Steve & Sue Francis Win DUFF
Steve and Sue Francis of Louisville won the
Down Under Fan Fund and will travel to the
Australian National Convention.
Administrators Joe Siclari and Norman
Cates tallied 218 ballots: Sue & Steve Fran-
cis, 163; Murray Moore, 48; No Preference,
2; Other, 5. Two people received 3rd place
write-in nominations: Andy Hooper & Dick
Spelman.
James Bacon wrote me when voting be-
gan “DUFF has gone all electronic,” so I
immediately had to try that. “All electronic”
has been a siren call to fannish ears since the
days of reel-to-reel fanzines.
I found Jean Weber’s electronic DUFF
ballot easy to use. It was equally convenient
to make my required donation through her
PayPal connection. Privacy was preserved
because data entered on the electronic ballot
was transmitted to an e-mail address at
Jean’s domain, and automatically forwarded
to Norman Cates, Australasian DUFF Ad-
ministrator, without Jean seeing it.
North American administrator Joe Si-
clari’s voting analysis shows where all the
Mike Resnick
brings fanhistory alive for
readers of his “In My Opinion” column
in the February 2008 issue of
Jim Baen’s
Universe
. Along the way he explains:
“Even Mike Glyer’s Hugo-winning
fanzine,
File 770
, is named for the most
famous fannish party of all, held in Room
770 of the 1951 Worldcon hotel in New
Orleans.”
Entirely true. See, it has nothing to do
with cell phones at all…
Perfect Pitch
What’s the best route to success in Holly-
wood? Cary Grant made it going
North By
Northwest
, now LASFSian Ed Green is hav-
ing luck with the opposite direction. Ed
worked on a spec commerical used in a pitch
to Southwest Airlines and the director has
posted it on
FunnyOrDie.com
<http:-
//www.funnyordie.com/videos/83a1fae273>.
Ed offers the link “for your amusement (or
horror).”
A photo from the 1951 Worldcon
of the famous Room 770 party
in progress. The fan with the
glasses is Lynn Hickman. The
seated fan on the right may be
Roger Sims. Lee Hoffman is in the
foreground.
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