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FANews, October 28, 1945, no.227-9
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TO BE HELD MONDAY OCT. 29TH AT 8:00 WERE MADE.... MEETING ADJOURNED AT 10:06 1/2 at which time Ashley auctioned some original drawings. Liebscher acted as auctioneer, and with his quaint way of disguising the actual content of his conversation by his own special brand of double talk, he had people bidding for monstrosities for which they never would otherwise. He did a very fine job, however, as naturally would be expected from such a re-auctionary individual.... ----------------------------------- All of the aforegoing "minutes" have been condensed from "carbons" sent to us by the LASFS Sec'y, TRIGINA. We publish them as a service to fandom to show what Fandom's most active club is doing. All details have been omitted..... We have rec'd word from LA that the name PACIFICON is now in common usage rather than POST-WAR-CON.... As no note of it has appeared in the official minutes we assume that it is still in the discussion stages... We hereby make a formal request for any and all bulletines on the FOURTH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION for benefit of our readers. Thanx LASFS. and Thank you TIGRINA! ------------------------------------ LETTER TO YE ED Bearing a postmark of Oct 22, 1945 from Milwaukee, Wisc. We rec'd the following epistle which we pass on to our readers: "Dear Dunk: Just off to Chicago on a job and therefore must be brief... but must thank you for the FANEWS. Wish I had an item or so to contribute... but I lead a very dull life here in the little town of Durance (Vile). Shipped out two bodies last week... railway express, of course, it's cheaper...... last was of a woman, judge her to be about 55 or 60. but in a good state of preservation.... consulted World Almanac and shipped a piece to the first 40 towns I stuck with pins. This should provide police with a lot of fun for months, just tracing each piece. Routine assembly job, of course. Other body sent intact... small child... fitted nicely into discarded bag of a vacum cleaner I had around... matter of fact, I just sucked child up into cleaner to begin with as I caught it crawling around on the floor. As a gag, sent the bag to the Hoover people, signing name of a housewife and complaining that "vacum cleaner doesn't seem to be working as there seems to be something caught inside the bag". This should cause them to laugh heartily. Speaking of children, my daughter recently was operated on to remove extra head. Damned nuisance... fourth time in two years... heads keep growing back on. Of course each head is different and my wife is amused by the variety of faces. Never know what to expect next. She was depressed by phenomenon at first until I consoled her with the old adage, "Two heads are better than one". Jivaro Indians always thought so, too. Now that I mention Jivaro Indians, I recall that we recently had a visit from five or six... apparently fans of mine in Brazil. They were quiet, unobtrusive little chaps... camped in my livingroom... spent all their time fussing over their cooking utensils. Smoked up the room a bit, though. shot a few poisin darts at my grandmother... not knowing she has built up an imunity to poisin ever since we made mistake of trying to arsenic her to death for her money years ago. Jivaros eventually left when my half-witted brother accidentally set fire to the house while attempting to burn my wife at the stake. But, as I say, I guess things are too quiet around here for me to have any news for your estimable publication. Well, I must close now. Have to go out and milk the Werewolf. Wishing you the same....... // Robert Bloch//"
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TO BE HELD MONDAY OCT. 29TH AT 8:00 WERE MADE.... MEETING ADJOURNED AT 10:06 1/2 at which time Ashley auctioned some original drawings. Liebscher acted as auctioneer, and with his quaint way of disguising the actual content of his conversation by his own special brand of double talk, he had people bidding for monstrosities for which they never would otherwise. He did a very fine job, however, as naturally would be expected from such a re-auctionary individual.... ----------------------------------- All of the aforegoing "minutes" have been condensed from "carbons" sent to us by the LASFS Sec'y, TRIGINA. We publish them as a service to fandom to show what Fandom's most active club is doing. All details have been omitted..... We have rec'd word from LA that the name PACIFICON is now in common usage rather than POST-WAR-CON.... As no note of it has appeared in the official minutes we assume that it is still in the discussion stages... We hereby make a formal request for any and all bulletines on the FOURTH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION for benefit of our readers. Thanx LASFS. and Thank you TIGRINA! ------------------------------------ LETTER TO YE ED Bearing a postmark of Oct 22, 1945 from Milwaukee, Wisc. We rec'd the following epistle which we pass on to our readers: "Dear Dunk: Just off to Chicago on a job and therefore must be brief... but must thank you for the FANEWS. Wish I had an item or so to contribute... but I lead a very dull life here in the little town of Durance (Vile). Shipped out two bodies last week... railway express, of course, it's cheaper...... last was of a woman, judge her to be about 55 or 60. but in a good state of preservation.... consulted World Almanac and shipped a piece to the first 40 towns I stuck with pins. This should provide police with a lot of fun for months, just tracing each piece. Routine assembly job, of course. Other body sent intact... small child... fitted nicely into discarded bag of a vacum cleaner I had around... matter of fact, I just sucked child up into cleaner to begin with as I caught it crawling around on the floor. As a gag, sent the bag to the Hoover people, signing name of a housewife and complaining that "vacum cleaner doesn't seem to be working as there seems to be something caught inside the bag". This should cause them to laugh heartily. Speaking of children, my daughter recently was operated on to remove extra head. Damned nuisance... fourth time in two years... heads keep growing back on. Of course each head is different and my wife is amused by the variety of faces. Never know what to expect next. She was depressed by phenomenon at first until I consoled her with the old adage, "Two heads are better than one". Jivaro Indians always thought so, too. Now that I mention Jivaro Indians, I recall that we recently had a visit from five or six... apparently fans of mine in Brazil. They were quiet, unobtrusive little chaps... camped in my livingroom... spent all their time fussing over their cooking utensils. Smoked up the room a bit, though. shot a few poisin darts at my grandmother... not knowing she has built up an imunity to poisin ever since we made mistake of trying to arsenic her to death for her money years ago. Jivaros eventually left when my half-witted brother accidentally set fire to the house while attempting to burn my wife at the stake. But, as I say, I guess things are too quiet around here for me to have any news for your estimable publication. Well, I must close now. Have to go out and milk the Werewolf. Wishing you the same....... // Robert Bloch//"
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