The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society is considering moving to a new location.  The location of the new LASFS property was not being written anywhere that I could find.  I asked about this "secrecy".  But Karl Lembke, Chairman of the LASFS Board of Directors, was kind enough to tell me that the manifestation of apparent secrecy was nothing more ( Read more... )

I was going to blow off Monday’s BASFA meeting and get some well-needed sleep.  However, it looked as if I had set a fire, and I wanted to see how it burned.  I was mightily disappointed.

BASFA has grown into a powerhouse of fannish activity.  In my opinion, BASFA’s fannish output and potential influence rival those of NESFA and LASFS.  Two of the ( Read more... )

I must warn you at the outset that this story has no point, it has no moral, and no lessons may gained by reading it.  It is simply the recounting of an odd, if unimportant, incident in my life.  It happened more than twenty years ago, but I still remember it quite well.  The whole thing was weird, but no more than that ( Read more... )

I went to see “Old Puppy” at the Nabolom Bakery in Berkeley, today.  They were great.  They always are.  I learned some news about the “Old Puppy” band.  It is not really “Old Puppy”.  Steven Strauss, the “Old Puppy” band leader, reports that there have been enough changes in the band membership that it is no longer the real “Old Puppy” band.  ( Read more... )

Back in the mid-1980’s I worked two jobs for a short time. One job was at the phone company: that wonderful place of myth and legend paid my bills, and allowed me a certain measure of freedom. The other job was at “Dangerous Visions Bookstore” in Sherman Oaks. That was a science fiction specialty bookstore where I was paid in books. It was a ( Read more... )

In 1979, shortly after I moved to Los Angeles to go to University, I started attending meetings of The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.  The person in whose home I was renting a room was on the LASFS board of directors.  His name was Ed Finkelstein.  Between my first and second visit to LASFS, I went to a party with this house mate, Ed.  After ( Read more... )