You have a better memory from 22 years ago than I. Linda Ann was not... subtle. Shy, yes. It's entirely possible she had an initial negative reaction to a camera being pointed at her, but calmed down when she realized it was me. I get that a lot, and often have to take two pictures. I wouldn't have taken the picture if she really didn't want me to, and I think she knew I would take a good picture. I like this one a fair amount, for the angle and the smile. So did she, when I showed it to her.
iirc = If I Recall Correctly
Fandom has always been about Long Distance Relationships (eg fanzines, meeting at cons, Usenet, the web) but Mpls Fandom is a bit different, as we are sooooo far away from other faannish centers and tend to huddle together for warmth. We are (or were) more of an self-perpetuating social group than most. But I digress.
some memories come back with pictures other sweet ones with candlelight
it might have some thing to do with the bozo bus, dream haven lots of Heinlien and Assimov.. or is it the line by a 6 foot muskrat how can one know the enemies if you haven't thoroughly sniffed/licked your friends? ~ i know its not a direct quote but love seemed to be a constant and the refusal to hate just because someone you loved, loved another.
No, I think that's just how she was holding her hand. She was shy in front of the camera, but if she were mad she wouldn't be smiling. This was roughly the period when she, Nate and I were housemates.
We (fsv "we") should make a chart or list of all the people who lived under the same roof (avoiding the connotations of "lived together") in Minneapolis fandom over the years. It would be so convoluted, but it is our history.
Indeed. A Landgon Chart would not do. Since many of these connections go through Scott Imes (caretaker of the Bozo Bus Bldg for many years), I'll call said listing an Imes Chart.
If you branch out you'll get into NYC fandom through David Emerson (and others) and Winnipeg fandom through Garth Danielson and I'm afraid to delve into LA fandom...
Such a chart would be complex, but stop being quite so exuberant sometime in the late 80s.
Oh, I'd go out at least two generations past the demise of the Boz, to The French House and DD-B/Pamela's coming back from MA and further. There are still fannish households, though not quite the same slanshack activity.
Possibly; maybe I have a narrow viewpoint, having lived in Mpls for only seven years. I guess you would count the time that Gerri B., Ken K. and I all had apartments in the same building on Oak Grove. Lee Pelton lived on a nearby side street closer to Nicollet (I cat-sat for him once when he went to a con), and Anne B. lived on Oak Grove in the other direction.
Plotting the total Fannish Ghetto would be a related but different project. You could probably do it with old MN-STF mailing lists (or Minicon mailing lists from earlier) and Google Maps...
Some of us refugees from the Boze moved to The Blue House, between about 1981 to 1t least 1984 (I was out by then, but I think the Lessingers (Ben, Sherri & DeeDee) were still there.)
Good heavens, no. While I'm probably one of the major nodes, you'd probably want someone who was around for longer, to catch the early Boz and the smaller slanshacks (of which history I know little). Iirc, this was suggested before (by you?) and was started but never came near to completion.
For those of you lurking: The Bozo Bus Bldg was a brownstone in S. Mpls (on the same block as the original Uncle Hugos) with 15 apartments and two next door. Iirc, Don Blyly was caretaker for a while (or was that his mother?) and turned the reins over to Scott Imes sometime in the mid-70s. At it's faannish peak, 15 of the 17 apartments were rented by fans. It was this ersatz success that caused the landlord to raise the rent beyond what the place was worth and we up and left sometime in the early 80s. Simply a listing of every fan who lived in the Boz, and when, would be a huge project.
I recall the hiatus vividly, since it occurred precisely during the summer of 1981 while I was away (with goldleafgoddess) visiting a rainbow gathering in Wasington state. I returned to find that my roommate (JennyB) had moved out while I was gone, bringing most of my stuff with her, but leaving me to find a new place right away.)
By the time you were active, the "really fun stuff" hadn't ended, but it had (for the most part) shifted from parties and fanzines to Minicon and MN-STF meetings. LJ is scratching the Fanzine Itch for many of us, so it seems like old times.
Yep, that's her! She's one of those people who essentially looked the same the entire time I knew her (which was not her entire adult life). She never looked really old -- well, I admit that I hadn't seen her for a few years when she died. Pretty much the only times I got carded (that is, when they weren't carding absolutely everyone) were when I went to a show with Mike & Linda.
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I think I remeber you taking that picture
Date: 2007-03-30 04:17 pm (UTC)when did Linda cross over?
Re: I think I remeber you taking that picture
Date: 2007-03-30 05:29 pm (UTC)She died last year, iirc, without much contact with MN-STF for a long time.
i saw her flipping the camera the bird
Date: 2007-03-30 06:03 pm (UTC)it is a good portrait
Thank you
iirc?
she was still active
when i was around but that was 1999
moving to Chicago
made it seem like I dropped off the edge of the earth
in a way I did...
Re: i saw her flipping the camera the bird
Date: 2007-03-30 06:57 pm (UTC)iirc = If I Recall Correctly
Fandom has always been about Long Distance Relationships (eg fanzines, meeting at cons, Usenet, the web) but Mpls Fandom is a bit different, as we are sooooo far away from other faannish centers and tend to huddle together for warmth. We are (or were) more of an self-perpetuating social group than most. But I digress.
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Date: 2007-03-30 10:58 pm (UTC)other sweet ones with candlelight
it might have some thing to do with
the bozo bus, dream haven
lots of Heinlien and Assimov..
or is it the line by a 6 foot muskrat
how can one know the enemies
if you haven't thoroughly sniffed/licked your friends?
~ i know its not a direct quote
but love seemed to be a constant
and the refusal to hate just because
someone you loved, loved another.
hugs to you my favorite yiddish Oestra bunny!
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Date: 2007-03-30 04:24 pm (UTC)So many are gone...
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Date: 2007-03-30 05:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-30 05:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-30 06:06 pm (UTC)is considered living with?
hehe
minstf is a wonderfully convoluted bunch
An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 07:03 pm (UTC)Indeed. A Landgon Chart would not do. Since many of these connections go through Scott Imes (caretaker of the Bozo Bus Bldg for many years), I'll call said listing an Imes Chart.
If you branch out you'll get into NYC fandom through David Emerson (and others) and Winnipeg fandom through Garth Danielson and I'm afraid to delve into LA fandom...
Such a chart would be complex, but stop being quite so exuberant sometime in the late 80s.
Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 07:57 pm (UTC)Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 08:32 pm (UTC)Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 08:39 pm (UTC)Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 08:55 pm (UTC)Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-31 08:14 am (UTC)Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 08:53 pm (UTC)Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 10:17 pm (UTC)Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 08:13 pm (UTC)Does this mean you're going to do it?
Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 08:41 pm (UTC)That's agreeable to me.
Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 08:50 pm (UTC)Good heavens, no. While I'm probably one of the major nodes, you'd probably want someone who was around for longer, to catch the early Boz and the smaller slanshacks (of which history I know little). Iirc, this was suggested before (by you?) and was started but never came near to completion.
For those of you lurking: The Bozo Bus Bldg was a brownstone in S. Mpls (on the same block as the original Uncle Hugos) with 15 apartments and two next door. Iirc, Don Blyly was caretaker for a while (or was that his mother?) and turned the reins over to Scott Imes sometime in the mid-70s. At it's faannish peak, 15 of the 17 apartments were rented by fans. It was this ersatz success that caused the landlord to raise the rent beyond what the place was worth and we up and left sometime in the early 80s. Simply a listing of every fan who lived in the Boz, and when, would be a huge project.
Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-30 10:20 pm (UTC)Re: An Imes Chart
Date: 2007-03-31 12:19 am (UTC)Re: An Imes Chart
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Date: 2007-03-30 07:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-30 11:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-31 01:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-31 03:32 pm (UTC)