Reading: The Branch by Mike Resnick
Music: Salty Dick
TV/Movie: Family Guy Season 5
Link o' the Day: The Fanac Fan History Project

Another week up, another week down. Not a bad week as weeks go. I got a good amount of work done in prepping my new web pages. Some good work done on the Zorro collectibles book. Some re-entry into fanac--a little at least. Some writing done and sent out. Some markets researched. Other research done.

All in all, a pretty productive week.

Last night Pretty Maggie made chocolate pops to sell at the Annual Plant and Bake Sale for the Mt. Hope Learning Center. I got up at 3:30 this morning to make peanut butter cookies before leaving the house. When I get home I'm going to make more cookies until she gets home to collect them and take them up to the Center. Me? I'm going to sleep.

I probably won't get a whole lot done this weekend. I'll have time only for morning chores tomorrow before we hit the road, and will probably not have a whole lot of evening left on Sunday when we get back. This isn't a bad thing, tho. I've had some very productive weeks put under my belt lately, and it will be good to see Pretty Maggie's mother who we haven't seen since Christmas. Mothers Day doth approacheth.

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So it looks like Dame Fortune is conspiring and spinning her fixed wheel and I'm pretty much required now to go grab my copy of Zombies of the Gene Pool when I get home. I've been noting people talking about McCrumb's books in a bunch of places lately, most recently in the latest issue of the Virtual Tucker Hotel. It seems that fellow fan Curt Phillips has been "tuckerized" in it, and I've a scary feeling I remember which character it is.

This, of course, will mean picking up either Damon Knight's The Futurians or Fred Pohl's The Way the future Was and get sucked into that whole Fan History thing again which is what drew me into fanzine fandom to begin with.

Oh it's a vicious circle, innit?

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Speaking of bimbos... Denny Lien at the fictionmags mailing list recently shared this bit of doggerel he found which can be sung to the tune of "She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain":

There's a bimbo on the cover of my book.
There's a bimbo on the cover of my book.
She is blonde and she is sexy;
She is nowhere in the text. She
is a bimbo on the cover of my book.

There's black leather on the bimbo in my book.
There's black leather on the bimbo in my book.
While I'm sure she's lots of fun,
My heroine's a nun
Who wears black leather on the cover of my book.

You're welcome.

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Today's link goes to The Fanac Fan History Project which is an amazing collection of SF fan-related materials. I could spend days or weeks or more sifting through the old fanzines, con publications, photos, and more stored here.

Enjoy!