heading home (typed yesterday)

Waiting at lyonesse's house for the taxi to arrive to take us to the airport so that we can finally head home. I'm looking to a couple of days of doing theta approaching nothing. I mean seriously, I need a weekend of lazing about and I think this one is going to be it. W00t!

Went to the Boston Museum of Fine Art yesterday and the day before. The art deco exhibition they have running right now is shriekingly fantastic and if you're in the area you need to go. Go now. Plus, of course, the whole MFA is great fun, except for the inside cafe by the gift shop which kind of blows. Don't go there. But watch the deco exhibition and see the path set in design for the following 60 years. (I had fun pointing out how. E.g., a chair from the 1925 Paris exhibition that I pointed at and said, "See that? Have you seen Star Trek? Do you know Captain Kirk's chair?" and people going, "...oh!" Dillenger's desk from Tron was there, too, in its 1925 inspiration. And so on)

If I had a time machine, one of the places I would go would be the 1925 Paris exhibition. That, and I'd have to visit the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

Last night I visited Vicka's Aikido dojo at MIT again, and I really, really enjoyed it a lot. They have a different approach to early training that I like better; at Ki Society in Seattle - at least, these days - attacks are very much feigned, as if they aren't even supposed to be real. And that's fine and I understand why, it really causes me some problems in that I don't have much to hook muscle memory to, and I think it makes it harder for me to understand the resulting moves. Here, while they're still of course feigned attacks, they're at least supposed to seem kind of real, so you know what to react to when you see it in real life. I prefer that by a lot.

There's a different Aikido dojo in Lake City Way - I think I'll stop by there and see how they go about things. Maybe I'll like them better.

After class, we went out to a local Spanish restaurant which made me very happy, and had desserts that made me very, very happy, so life is good.

( Quizzie )

Page Two of Battlefield Earth Kazoo, nr. 42h

Theta Reaches Zero
Universe Ends

Probability waves across the country collapsed today as theta stopped approaching and finally reached zero. Asked about the changes likely to be produced by suddenly deterministic subatomic interactions, Stephen Hawking said, "I don't know, I'm too busy working on my new single with my partner Doomsday to give a rat's ass." He then popped a cap into our reporter's butt and told that punk to get the f**k out of his crib before the bleeding stained his carpet.

Outbreaks of simultaneously alive and dead cats have also been reported at kennels across the country.

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Former Fan-Editor Explodes in Burst of Flame
GAFIAting Apparently No Cure

Formerly well-known fan editor Harlan Ellison exploded spontaneously outside his Southern California home today in a burst of impotent, but amusing, rage. Neighbours reported some form of incohent ranting to have preceeded the outburst, followed directly by an explosion, and a general scattering of shredded paper and meat across the area.

Sources say that Ellison had acted on doctor's advice and attempted to prevent this income by "GAFIAting," or Getting Away From It All, having blacked out previously from a fury brought on by seeing one too damn many extra, commas.

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Surplus of Apostrophes Breaks Software
Fanzine not published; postal service, fandom indifferent

A surplus of apostrophies in the credits list stopped publication of the at-convention newsletter for 14 hours today as editors frantically attempted to download patches from Adobe, and alternate fonts from any web site they could find. "We even tried making them into graphics," said K'i'll'ian'd'ra S'i'tagta. "Nothing worked. First Garamond Antiqua would start printing out as Ariel Black, then we'd start picking up Russian television on the monitor, and the next thing you know - boom! Printer innards everywhere."

The group also attempted to ask the Klingon Language Institute for aid, but spokesman ho'LFiE'f'rk reported that no message had been received on their end. "I dunno, maybe their email bounced. We've been having a hell of a problem with the WiFi. Everything keeps turning into Japanese or something."

Nippon2007, when contacted, kindly responded that they had no comment, but thanked us profusely for asking.

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Overheard

"I know it's too damn long. Just footnote it John Galt. The Libertarians will love it."

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Klingons!
Klingons are always funny

Klingons! Klingons, Klingons, klingons, Klingons? Klingons! K-K-K-K-K-K-Klingons! Kling, klingON, KLINGon, KLING kling KLING kling KLING kling kling kling kling kling ON! KLINGON!

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Hoax Zine "A" and "B" Issues Announced
Thought to be actual issues, hoax zine confuses everyone

Noreascon 4 members reacted with confusion to the revelation that two issues of the at-convention newsletter Battlefield Earth Kazoo - marked "a" and "b" - were, in fact, hoaxes. "I did wonder why they kept moving programme items to floor 'two prime' in the convention centre," said one fan, "but I thought I just couldn't figure out the escalators." Several other fans reported that it made little difference, really. "I thought they were all hoax issues. You mean, they weren't?"

At the Sunday business meeting, serious and constructive fans - both of them - responded with outrage. "People passed a zone system thanks to a prank like this! We came within six votes of giving voting status to cats again this year, thanks to an article written by these jerks. These editors need to pay more attention to what they're writing! Or at least for god's sake make it funnier."

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