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calling 1986
Aug. 15th, 2010 11:28 amDue to some kind of perverse nostalgic impulse I've long had the desire to see the Atlanta Fantasy Fair and the other conventions I went to as a teenager archived on the network of tubes we call the Internet. And so I set up a blog so that when I get a spare moment I can write about these shows, post ephemera, and generally wallow in the past, because that's healthy. Anyway Devlin gave me a stack of promotional material from the era when we were in Athens a week or so ago, and I'm going to be posting it in bits and pieces to the AFF blog. So if you were there, or if you weren't, check out what fandom was like in the 80s and early 90s.
http://atlantafantasyfair.blogspot.com/2010/08/aff-1986.html
Nope, haven't seen Scott Pilgrim or the Expendables yet. Been kind of recovering from the trip, doing laundry, sorting through junk for the MERRIL COLLECTION BENEFIT SCI FI YARD SALE which everybody should show up at, and generally relaxing and enjoying the month off from Mister Kitty. I work the weird 3-12s shift next week, too, so that means a lot of free time in the beginning of the week (which I will probably squander) and then absolutely none for the remainder of the week.
One of the things I picked up on the trip was a book called NILA. The name struck me as familiar; there's a book I bought on a whim years ago called ARE YOU CARRYING ANY GOLD OR LIVING RELATIVES, about a divorcee and her emigre Russian friend going on a mishap-filled tour of the USSR in the very early 1970s. The book was by Irene Kampen, the author of another book that became the television series THE LUCY SHOW. Anyway, ARE YOU CARRYING ETC. is really funny and the author's Russian emigre friend is named Nila Magidoff. In fact my edition is personally autographed by Nila. So I'm like, a book named NILA, I wonder if it's the same Nila? And it is. It's Nila's autobiography about how she grew up in Tsarist Russia, survived the Revolution, was married to an anti-Stalin activist, and at the point I'm at now she's been moved from the Lubyanka to another prison and I suspect is about to be exiled.
SEVEN DEGREES OF IRENE KAMPEN DEPT. - Neil Nadelman's mom knew Irene Kampen, they're both from Connecticut.
http://atlantafantasyfair.blogspot.com/2010/08/aff-1986.html
Nope, haven't seen Scott Pilgrim or the Expendables yet. Been kind of recovering from the trip, doing laundry, sorting through junk for the MERRIL COLLECTION BENEFIT SCI FI YARD SALE which everybody should show up at, and generally relaxing and enjoying the month off from Mister Kitty. I work the weird 3-12s shift next week, too, so that means a lot of free time in the beginning of the week (which I will probably squander) and then absolutely none for the remainder of the week.
One of the things I picked up on the trip was a book called NILA. The name struck me as familiar; there's a book I bought on a whim years ago called ARE YOU CARRYING ANY GOLD OR LIVING RELATIVES, about a divorcee and her emigre Russian friend going on a mishap-filled tour of the USSR in the very early 1970s. The book was by Irene Kampen, the author of another book that became the television series THE LUCY SHOW. Anyway, ARE YOU CARRYING ETC. is really funny and the author's Russian emigre friend is named Nila Magidoff. In fact my edition is personally autographed by Nila. So I'm like, a book named NILA, I wonder if it's the same Nila? And it is. It's Nila's autobiography about how she grew up in Tsarist Russia, survived the Revolution, was married to an anti-Stalin activist, and at the point I'm at now she's been moved from the Lubyanka to another prison and I suspect is about to be exiled.
SEVEN DEGREES OF IRENE KAMPEN DEPT. - Neil Nadelman's mom knew Irene Kampen, they're both from Connecticut.
