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drploktaRog Peyton was appalled by the togas in the bar on Friday night at Paragon 2. It's not the fandom he used to know, apparently.
No, the fandom he used to know looked more like this photo of the 1957 Worldcon from Efanzines.com. (Click on it for a larger version.)
[(Seated) Dave Kyle, Ethel Lindsay, Ruth Kyle, Alan Whicker]
No, the fandom he used to know looked more like this photo of the 1957 Worldcon from Efanzines.com. (Click on it for a larger version.)
[(Seated) Dave Kyle, Ethel Lindsay, Ruth Kyle, Alan Whicker]
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Date: 2005-03-30 10:13 pm (UTC)We ended up running an item on this theme at SecconD back in '01:
Aliens Stole My DangerCon
Friday, 10 - 11 pm
Wacky conventions dedicated to frantic fannish fun are very popular these days. Is this (a) jolly good fun, (b) a betrayal of trufandom, (c) just another fringe fandom, or (d) a return to the traditions of 1950s conrunning? Martin Easterbook has a suitably weird chat with Guy Dawson and Claire Brialey.
Those who do not remember fandom's past are condemned to repeat it. Those who have managed to forget it just get to bitch about it all over again.
MC