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Welcome to another Drink Tank and thereturn to the 52 Weeks to Science Fiction FilmLiteracy program! I’m always happy to be back at my work and I really loved the movie that I’llbe talking about. I was working on the Hugo forBest Novel issue (which I really liked!) and thenon Westercon and other stuff.Oh Yeah, Westercon. Let me start by say-ing AWESOME! It was a really good time, eventhough I wasn’t staying at the hotel and had totrek in and out most nights. It was still a greattime, especially running the fanzine lounge. Ibrought a ton of the zine collections and MoStarkey (who did this issue’s cover) brought abunch of her art and I was so happy to get toshow it off. We had a lot of great conversation(including one with Leigh Ann, Espana and Un-woman that was endlessly awesome) and I hadhad the aforementioned Unwoman playing inthe Lounge on Saturday. She was so good, evenplaying in front of about 20 people, she puts ona helluva show. I’ve seen her playing in front of hundreds of people and in front of a dozen andshe always puts out the big effort.You might remember that I had a lovelymoment at the last Westercon I made it to, theone in Vegas, where Bill Mills played Rocket Manfor me in a rotunda with only Roxanne Mills alongfor the ride. This time, it was Unwoman playingpiano and singing for me and two or three oth-ers. She played a song from V For Vendetta that just blew me away. She was great and an absolutehighlight for me for Westercon 64.The big news for many was what I calledthe SMoFpocalypse!!!!! It all started with Kevinand Andy starting a hoax bid to bring Westercon66 in 2013 to a roadside place called Granzella’s.I’ve been there and I posted a lot of comedystuff, but after a bit, they started taking the bidas a more serious protest bid, which got a lotof traction, especially from folks who would notnormally vote. The Portland bid, which had beenthe only pre-announced bid and the only onetheoretically eligible to win, had done very little,had been hit with life and couldn’t cope with it.That led to a vote that saw it end up with Gran-zella’s with 42 votes and Portland 41. A Hoaxbid had won, possibly for the first time (Thelegendary ‘Both’ vote may have got the mostvotes, but we’ll never know) and that sent it tothe Business Meeting, which went on for threehours and was an amazing amount of work. Kev-in Standlee did an amazing job keeping it goingand in the end, it turned up with Kevin and Andygetting Westercon 66. They’re looking at a placein the Sacramento Valley. I hope I’ll get a chancewhich I enjoyed, and a ton of Filk and other con-certs. Westercon brought us Milt Stevens and John Hertz and the three of us had a wonderfulconversation in the bar about Heinlein and sci-ence fiction and art in general. It was great to geta chance to finally hear a story that featured Di-ana Vick about which I had heard spoken of onlyas a shared-joke punchline from my peeps in theNorthwest. I even got a chance to sit down withBen Yalow and get some great SMoFish history.Y’all know how much I love that!SO, it was a good con, I had a lot of funand I’m running the Lounge for Seattle nextyear, when Frank Wu, my dear friend and fellowMinicon GoH next year, will be the Artist GoH!Can’t wait for it!WorldCon is looming and I’ve got somuch more to do! And with that in mind, awaywe go!to be on their commit-tee, and I am certainlygoing to be going!Glenn Glazeris a stud. He put on agreat Westercon, onethat was slightly rat-tling around in theFairmont, which was agreat hotel, and he puttogether a team thatput on a good con forthe fans to make themost of. We had MatchGame SF, which was funas always, and we hadthe Foglios doing GirlGenius Radio Theatre,
 
For immediate release:Announcing the creation of Bullshit! The Speculatively Fictitious Fanzine.All and sundry are invited to take part in the inaugural issue of Bullshit! Fanwriting of all types is welcome and encouraged, with the single requirement thatthe main thrust of the piece may not be true. It may be a bold-faced lie, a fabri-cation, a tall tale, a flight of fancy, an article of spurious logic, or a fib.Anything but the truth.The Editor, however, shall reserve the right to reject material of a slanderousnature.Fan art, too, is welcome and encouraged, with the caveat that it may not bein the creator’s own distinctive style. It may be of some material outside of theartist’s milieu, an imitation of a well-known artist, or a parodic work. This shouldbe taken as an invitation to explore new territory, free from the confines of rep-utation.The Editor shall be known by the name of William Housel, and will receivesubmissions at the electronic address of william.housel@gmail.com. The dead-line for submissions to the initial issue of Bullshit! shall be Wednesday, the 14thof September, 2011.
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