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hazelchazSaturday, part 1 of 3.
On Saturday I saw and photographed several people, including: James Bacon (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jamesb), Scratch Bacharach, Margene Bahm, Sandra Battye, Zara Baxter (zarabee), Sandra Bond, Seth Breidbart, Cindi Somebody Cabal, Philippa Chapman, Piotr Cholewa, David W. Clark, Cardinal Cox, Kathryn Daugherty, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Miki Dennis, Nick Edwards, Robin Elliott, jan howard finder (aka "Obi-Wombat Kenobi"), Ela Gepfert, Ed Green, Susan de Guardiola, Lisa Hayes, Louise Hoiles, Janet C. Johnston, Ethan Lawlor, Andy Leighton, Christian McGuire, Pat McMurray (pmcmurray), Liz Mortensen, Myrna Parmentier, Andrew Patterson, Elayne Pelz, Terry Pratchett, Corlis Robe, Juan C. Sanmiguel, Sharon Sbarsky, Joyce Scrivner, Kevin Standlee, Bill Sutton, Arthur Taylor, Katt Thornton (katt1028), Clare Thorpe-Tracy, Megan Totusek, Andy Trembley (bovil), Sylwia "Kiro" Zabinska, Lucy Zinkiewicz (l_zinkiewicz), Julie (our landlady) Nojay, Paul of Light and Smitty. Also all of the grown-up Masquerade entries; I don't have the names handy for those right now because library_lynn is upstairs sleeping.
Joyce Scrivner had written to me a week or two before I left, about getting "Timebinders" ribbons printed up. I had a last-minute order going into RV Awards, so I piggybacked her request onto mine. I mailed half of them to her address. She didn't receive them before I left, so I brought the other half with me. I left them in a box, with her name and address, at the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
laconiv table, and eventually she picked them up. But she and I never met up again after she picked up the ribbons, so I didn't get one myself. I've heard that Elayne Pelz will be taking over curatorship of the Worldcon History Exhibit starting when it arrives in L.A.; can anyone else confirm it? I suppose I can ask Elayne when I see her next.
Saturday morning when I went up to The Goat to post my Thursday and Friday afternoon notes, i stopped to take a picture of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Centre & Bait-ur-Rahman Mosque that's across the side street from it.
Saturday afternoon I spent some time at the Masquerade check-in desk, and a lot of time sitting on the blue couches at the other end of that aisle. While at the Masquerade desk, I was talking to Susan de Guardiola who was keeping a minute-by-minute journal of her trip. She was tired, and a little vague (her description), and her remarks were mostly free-association. Vlatko Juric-Kokic came up because we'd agreed to meet here at noon, and we determined that someone else (Nojay mostly) was taking care of setting up our backdrop and lights so we didn't need to do anything. I told him he should come back at 18:00.
Vlatko hung around talking for a while. I told Susan that the Croatians invented the necktie, and that the word Cravat comes from the same word as Croatia. This flabbergasted her. Vlatko assured her that I wasn't making it up, and we both tried to explain it. Croatia = Hrvatska. A person from Croatia = a Croat = Hrvat. The plural is hrvati. They tied cloth around their necks, and the cloths came to be known as hrvati too. Hence cravat. We tried to explain that the C, and the H, are just like the Kh sound in chutzpah and Hannukah and the greek letter Chi, but it was just blowing her little synapses left and right. Not a linguistics major, our Susan, no... She teaches historical dance, and had some research planned during her U.K. trip which would help make her trip tax-deductible. She has a house in Connecticut, with a laughably tiny mortgage and plenty of space. And she was raised as an Ashkenazi goy. But that's another story.
The Masquerade exhibit people needed some Hefty bags (bin liners) to protect an exhibited costume that had to go away because its owner had a plane to catch. I remembered I had some enormous clear plastic bin liners in my luggage, and I knewlibrary_lynn was asleep in the room and had been for about two hours. She usually takes a two-hour nap. (My naps are usually half an hour, unless I'm really tired. When I just doze off at a convention because I've been sitting still instead of standing or moving around, they tend to be shorter than that.) Susan and I went over to Number 36, and I tried to reach Lynn on the phone. No luck. I tried ringing the doorbell. Nobody home. I threw pennies at the downstairs window. She didn't wake up. Now, I should have programmed my landlady's number into my phone, but hadn't thought of it at the time, so Susan and I walked back to the SECC empty-handed.
Miki Dennis was orbiting the Masquerade desk and exhibit, when I noticed she had a "Filk Program" gizmo. I gave her the "Immortalized in Song" ribbons to hand out. She showed us her green-filled bun -- it looked like it was wrapped in a tortilla, actually, but they still call it a bun. There was something green in the filling -- pesto? guacamole?
We learned from Arthur Taylor, I think, that the zig-zag lane markings in the street mean that you're near a pedestrian crossing, and there's no parking there either.
Robin Elliott admired my "Glomp Me!" ribbon -- he was one of the few people to recognize it and know what it means.
Scratch Bacharach wasn't the only one to find me at the Fan Gallery and nominate themselves for inclusion. He was, however, the only one to ask a number of his friends and long-time acquaintances to tell me what he's done for fandom. Nobody could really point to much of anything; he's been around in fandom since 1969, he was one of the people who broke the charge (the riot attempt) at Heicon, and he lives in a Philadelphia suburb. Sometimes costumer, SCA, volunteer locally... but nobody could actually point to anything of significance.
Cindi Somebody Cabal was in pink. Very pink. All pink clothing, purse, shoes and hair. An interesting change for her; I think I like it better than the crazy hair she used to sport.
On Saturday I saw and photographed several people, including: James Bacon (
jamesb), Scratch Bacharach, Margene Bahm, Sandra Battye, Zara Baxter (zarabee), Sandra Bond, Seth Breidbart, Cindi Somebody Cabal, Philippa Chapman, Piotr Cholewa, David W. Clark, Cardinal Cox, Kathryn Daugherty, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Miki Dennis, Nick Edwards, Robin Elliott, jan howard finder (aka "Obi-Wombat Kenobi"), Ela Gepfert, Ed Green, Susan de Guardiola, Lisa Hayes, Louise Hoiles, Janet C. Johnston, Ethan Lawlor, Andy Leighton, Christian McGuire, Pat McMurray (pmcmurray), Liz Mortensen, Myrna Parmentier, Andrew Patterson, Elayne Pelz, Terry Pratchett, Corlis Robe, Juan C. Sanmiguel, Sharon Sbarsky, Joyce Scrivner, Kevin Standlee, Bill Sutton, Arthur Taylor, Katt Thornton (katt1028), Clare Thorpe-Tracy, Megan Totusek, Andy Trembley (bovil), Sylwia "Kiro" Zabinska, Lucy Zinkiewicz (l_zinkiewicz), Julie (our landlady) Nojay, Paul of Light and Smitty. Also all of the grown-up Masquerade entries; I don't have the names handy for those right now because library_lynn is upstairs sleeping.Joyce Scrivner had written to me a week or two before I left, about getting "Timebinders" ribbons printed up. I had a last-minute order going into RV Awards, so I piggybacked her request onto mine. I mailed half of them to her address. She didn't receive them before I left, so I brought the other half with me. I left them in a box, with her name and address, at the
laconiv table, and eventually she picked them up. But she and I never met up again after she picked up the ribbons, so I didn't get one myself. I've heard that Elayne Pelz will be taking over curatorship of the Worldcon History Exhibit starting when it arrives in L.A.; can anyone else confirm it? I suppose I can ask Elayne when I see her next.Saturday morning when I went up to The Goat to post my Thursday and Friday afternoon notes, i stopped to take a picture of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Centre & Bait-ur-Rahman Mosque that's across the side street from it.
Saturday afternoon I spent some time at the Masquerade check-in desk, and a lot of time sitting on the blue couches at the other end of that aisle. While at the Masquerade desk, I was talking to Susan de Guardiola who was keeping a minute-by-minute journal of her trip. She was tired, and a little vague (her description), and her remarks were mostly free-association. Vlatko Juric-Kokic came up because we'd agreed to meet here at noon, and we determined that someone else (Nojay mostly) was taking care of setting up our backdrop and lights so we didn't need to do anything. I told him he should come back at 18:00.
Vlatko hung around talking for a while. I told Susan that the Croatians invented the necktie, and that the word Cravat comes from the same word as Croatia. This flabbergasted her. Vlatko assured her that I wasn't making it up, and we both tried to explain it. Croatia = Hrvatska. A person from Croatia = a Croat = Hrvat. The plural is hrvati. They tied cloth around their necks, and the cloths came to be known as hrvati too. Hence cravat. We tried to explain that the C, and the H, are just like the Kh sound in chutzpah and Hannukah and the greek letter Chi, but it was just blowing her little synapses left and right. Not a linguistics major, our Susan, no... She teaches historical dance, and had some research planned during her U.K. trip which would help make her trip tax-deductible. She has a house in Connecticut, with a laughably tiny mortgage and plenty of space. And she was raised as an Ashkenazi goy. But that's another story.
The Masquerade exhibit people needed some Hefty bags (bin liners) to protect an exhibited costume that had to go away because its owner had a plane to catch. I remembered I had some enormous clear plastic bin liners in my luggage, and I knew
library_lynn was asleep in the room and had been for about two hours. She usually takes a two-hour nap. (My naps are usually half an hour, unless I'm really tired. When I just doze off at a convention because I've been sitting still instead of standing or moving around, they tend to be shorter than that.) Susan and I went over to Number 36, and I tried to reach Lynn on the phone. No luck. I tried ringing the doorbell. Nobody home. I threw pennies at the downstairs window. She didn't wake up. Now, I should have programmed my landlady's number into my phone, but hadn't thought of it at the time, so Susan and I walked back to the SECC empty-handed.Miki Dennis was orbiting the Masquerade desk and exhibit, when I noticed she had a "Filk Program" gizmo. I gave her the "Immortalized in Song" ribbons to hand out. She showed us her green-filled bun -- it looked like it was wrapped in a tortilla, actually, but they still call it a bun. There was something green in the filling -- pesto? guacamole?
We learned from Arthur Taylor, I think, that the zig-zag lane markings in the street mean that you're near a pedestrian crossing, and there's no parking there either.
Robin Elliott admired my "Glomp Me!" ribbon -- he was one of the few people to recognize it and know what it means.
Scratch Bacharach wasn't the only one to find me at the Fan Gallery and nominate themselves for inclusion. He was, however, the only one to ask a number of his friends and long-time acquaintances to tell me what he's done for fandom. Nobody could really point to much of anything; he's been around in fandom since 1969, he was one of the people who broke the charge (the riot attempt) at Heicon, and he lives in a Philadelphia suburb. Sometimes costumer, SCA, volunteer locally... but nobody could actually point to anything of significance.
Cindi Somebody Cabal was in pink. Very pink. All pink clothing, purse, shoes and hair. An interesting change for her; I think I like it better than the crazy hair she used to sport.
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Date: 2005-08-11 12:23 am (UTC)I hadn't realised that the Fan Gallery was a BNF gallery.
Fan Gallery definitions
Date: 2005-08-11 02:08 pm (UTC)"Fans who should be known outside their region for their contribution to fandom."
The exhibit in part serves as a rogue's gallery, a collection of mug shots -- if you were talking to someone who's in the exhibit, you can match name to face, likewise if it's someone whose name you've only seen in print or on screen, you can look them up. (This is why, for the fans who are still active, we want a photo we can recognize you by; for the fans who've passed away, we want one to remember you by; and for the gafiated, we'll take either. If you're still alive, we insist on colour photos; if you're dead, we'll accept black & white if we have to.)
"Fans who should be known outside their region for their contribution to fandom." This makes the whole project subject to the judgment of the caretakers, of course; we used to rely on Bruce Pelz's opinions as to who should be added, because he'd been in charge of the thing for so long.
We have a couple of automatic categories that we call the "core collection" -- Worldcon chairs, Worldcon fannish GoHs, Fan Hugo winners, and fan fund winners. (I rank NASFiC chairs/fannish gohs right behind the core collection, although some people like Ben Yalow have a different opinion.)
These are the automatic ones, because we've decided that hitting any of those qualifications demonstrates that you're already well-known and possibly well-liked by fans from outside your local fandom. (We have a handful of people, like Mike Glyer, who qualify for three of the four categories. In fact, I understand Mike won a fan fund election but didn't take the trip.) Beyond those categories, there are many people that ought to be known outside their region. and we have to figure out which ones to recognize in the exhibit. Key questions we ask are, what have you done for fandom? Okay, that one's nice, what else have you done? How long have you been doing it? Should anyone outside your part of the world care, or does it not matter? (This is why, if you've been invited to be FGoH a thousand miles from home, it at least demonstrates someone already knows who you are, and that adds strength to your case.)
We're not trying to fill out the exhibit with what I call seat-warmers. Have you been attending your local convention for thirty years and helping them load the truck? That's nice, but does it matter to anyone a hundred miles away, or should it? Do you have a 20-year track record of making it to every single Worldcon, but you don't participate in any other fanac, not even at the Worldcon itself? Those are weak cases. (We have a couple of people who actually match this description in the exhibit because of its early history, by the way. I try to leave them out of the display when we're tight for space.)
So, anyhow, BNF, WKF, yes; sometimes there are lesser-known fans that we think should be better known. I think people should know Lynn Hickman's name, and Ray Nelson's; Lynn's the man who rented Room 770 that the famous Nolacon I party was in, and Ray Nelson is the fanartist who invented the propellor beanie.
There's no point in trying to get every single actifan in the exhibit, that's too many. But we would like to have a better selection of fans, and not just a preponderance of north american conrunners & fanzine fans plus the other people who walked in front of our cameras in 1997-'98 in Mpls., New York, Boston, and L.A. when Bruce first got the exhibit going.