Memnison Journal

*glyph of annoyance*and another*
*notice of attempt to retcon Anne of Green Gables with a made up new origin*
*Or when they retconned the USS Rittenhouse into mad Admiral Rittenhouse who wanted to rule the universe in Star Trek fiction - aaargh*

From April through September, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry is having a big Harry Potter Exhibition…tickets just started going on sale. I know a mom and two little girls who would like to go…and a whole ton of fans.

I’ve been busy this weekend in going through immense piles of paperwork, and scanning and dumping, and lots of side dumping in any event.  The prozines are things that I don’t believe that I will ever re-read, and that it’s a lot more sensible to pass them on than to have them take up storage [...]

Lord God, I thank you for letting me live in this time, in this place, in these circumstances, among these good people, and within this beautiful and extravagant creation!
- jeff Duntemann

I’m noticing that a lot of my friends-list and others online - and the few I talk to on the phone (man, I am so housebound) - are going to take the holidays easy, cheap and local this year.  Our household will, as usual, trot out to Susan’s aunt Marlyce’s house and do the holiday [...]

It was wonderful to see people at the con; the best part, to me, was wandering around and chatting with con friends I hadn’t seen in a while and catching up with them.   Long chats with Kerri Ellen Kelly, Christa (Linda Sugar’s sister), Deb Kosiba (who was minding her store, so to speak, and I [...]

Yes, I will be at Windycon over the weekend.  I’ll be not-very-mobile. I’ll probably locate a prime lurking post and hang there a lot.  Mere will be with me.
The docs took out the last of the foot stitches, and the wound has come open again, about an inch worth.  The docs and Susan are [...]

I mentioned that Mere came down with Strep Throat on Thursday night; Friday day, Susan was getting sicker and sicker.  Both got last-minute-end-of-the-day runs to the doctors, and are now heavily medicated.  Mere is starting to perk up, and is feeling much better as of last night, and wants to go to roller-skating practive this [...]

…we finished reading the second Harry Potter book together last night.  Kid’s a serious Harry Potter fan, and is finding out how richer the books are than the movies.  She’s a big Cho fan, and imagines herself a Ravenclaw, by the way.

Sean Ware, Chicago-area fan, is part of the Tribune crew at the Democratic and Republican conventions.  And is blogging about it. Enjoy.

Still tired from the con; the entire family went minus Grandma Connie but including my visiting niece Kelbi, who decided to volunteer for the childcare room, and worked her butt off there! ( I think she racked up 15 hours…very dedicated.) She didn’t want the con, she wanted the kids!
Well, chacun a [...]

No, dammit, I’m not talking about your binges at Amazon.com.   I’m talking about those areas where Unless You Pay, You Can’t Get In.  I will, for the sake of argument, allow inclusion of the places you pay to download all of your MP3 crack and the like, but only for the stuff that is digital [...]

A change in the Wikipedia was reported over to me that took POINT OF DIVERGENCE, the Alternate History discussion APA, out of its page on the term.  The reason given was ‘ well, the group isn’t active and hasn’t been since 2004.’
Totally not true.  The APA just put out issue #51 the other day.  I [...]

Set of covers from APA-69 # 79, drawn by Giovanna Fregni. Gorgeous stuff of dinos getting together in a PG-13 manner, with one catch in the fourth section cover…
I’m scanning up all of the APA-69 covers that I have around - 99% of the APAs were shredded a while back in my effort to [...]

Article from the local Chicago papers in mid-1986 quoting from interviews with me, my ex, Gretchen Roper, Neil Rest and others about fannish activities, with mentions of Thursdays, the old floating weekly party.
jar_lernerpapers_081486 (PDF, .7M)