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The NASFiC Fashion Plate for Friday was: Robert Jensen, wearing his "The Alphabet in Alphabetically Order" t-shirt, where the first letter is "aitch." Nominate Saturday’s style maven by leaving a note for the daily newszine.

Mike Glyer

Wedding Bells.

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Mark Cantrell, married by the North Pool, Thursday morning.

AFAN.

(I didn’t know the North Pool was ordained to perform weddings! -Mike Glyer)

Moffatt Report.

June & Len Moffatt are NASFiC members, but have been distracted by blood-clot trouble June had. She went to Downey Community Hospital to get a filter installed in her vena cava (near kidneys). It is working, and she was discharged from the hospital on Thursday (the day being a gift from the fannish ghod Roscoe in honor of her APA-L zine title.) I visited her at her home on Friday to bring her and Len their membership materials. June is in good spirits, duly quoting, "Oh, Susannah" and Freddy the Pig stories. Love from them both. John Hertz

Missing persons.

Crews and table for Roswell Worldcon 2002 have disappeared. Anyone who has seen them please contact members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. May have been abducted by members of the Bay Area Worldcon Committee led by Kevin Standlee.

Who Are Those Guys?

The Other Convention at this hotel this weekend, with the purple "SCRC" badges, is some organization of "Charismatic Renewal" Christians. Some of them seem friendly, and a few wandered into the Art Show Reception last night.

Hazel the Bear

unclassifiable notices.

Going to Australia? The latest issue of Emerald City contains extensive reviews of Australian SF and a Guide to Melbourne. Available from the San Jose in 2002 table.

-Cheryl Morgan

Gandalf wants you! We’re building Middle-Earth online, and we want to know what you would like to see in it. Fill-out a short survey, or sign-up for a brain-storming session, and win big prizes. Come to our fan table. (It’s hidden near registration.)

Win Free Stuff. Get a free T-Shirt, win a leather bound edition of Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Win Tolkien Action Figures. Win a Middle-Earth Jacket. Win an artist proof exclusively commissioned for the Middle-Earth project. Find out more at the Middle-Earth construction project located at the fan tables next to the information desk. David Gehringer

Win a time-share in the Shire! Play golf with goblin heads. Take a leisurely barrel-ride down Long Lake. Join our smoke-ring blowing contest. Fireworks at twilight, courtesy of Gandalf, the wandering wizard. Come to the Middle-earth Online table to find out how (across from the information desk).

Daniel Greenberg

"Oh, we did attempt to smite her with the Clue Bat... but..."

Panelist: How many of you would pay one million dollars for a one-way trip to the moon?

Audience Member: I don’t know... do I get to pick who goes?

Sometime after midnight, fans discovered that the main pool area was locked up for the night, apparently to discourage some non-convention roudy kids from using it. No worries, though, there’s still ’round-the-clock access to the North Tower Pool.

Hazel the Bear

Restaurant Review.

Yen Cheng

574 S. Glassell, Orange

Although going to this restaurant requires a cab ride ($12 each way), it is well worth the fare and trip. First, the service is excellent: when we arrived we were greeted like long lost relatives and during our meal the owner sent over a complimentary order of mu-shu chicken. Second, the food is excellent. At the suggestion of our waitress we ordered the dinner for 2. The menu lists this as consisting of sizzling rice soup, 2 appetizers (pot stickers and paper wrapped chicken), and 2 entrees (Mongolian Beef and Garlic Chicken), but you can substitute another choice for any item at a slight extra charge. We chose Hot’N’Sour Soup but otherwise stuck with the menu. The soup was hot’n’spicy and chock full of goodies like chicken, shrimp and tofu. The pot stickers were flavorful and light and the paper wrapped chicken was unusual but tasty. The complimentary mu-shu was wonderfully full of both crunchy vegetables and strips of marinated chicken. The Mongolian Beef had a little too much peanut taste but the Garlic Chicken was perfect.

As we said, the dinner was worth the cab ride. The dinner for two of us was $40, including wine and generous tip. We were given a card for 10% off our next visit but since we won’t get a chance to go back the first person to come to the info desk and ask for it can have it. If you go with a group of four, the cab ride and dinner should be reasonable.

KT FitzSimmons and Kathleen Meyer

Info Desk

Saturday PARTIES.

453, ½ hour after the masquerade, Costumer’s Suite. Will show tape multiple times.

484, 2100 hours. LosCon XXVI is hosting a Nuclear Winter Wonderland party. We will be featuring snow cones in six apocalyptic flavors. And don’t leave until you’ve had an atomic fireball! See you there!

Liz Mortensen

236, 9 pm., Gaylaxian Room Party,

A room party for gay, lesbian and transgendered fen – and their friend! Drop on by and say "Hi!" and have some munchies! (No alcohol and no smoking.) Sponsored by the Gaylactic Network.

Carl Cipra

250, 11:00 pm, Rule 6. Aahz

Sunday Parties.

423, 20:05., UK in 2005 party. Hot tea, soft drinks, and real mints!

van Ent

453, Time TBA, Costumer’s Suite. Showing Masquerade video tapes and Fairy Tale Theater.

Tonight I found 11 parties including the Art Show Reception.

The Art Show Reception had desserts you would kill for and plenty of veggies and fruit. Best Art of any party. The Furry Party had no food or liquid. Not as furry as I expected. The fur just didn't fly.

Sime~Gen Party had food, liquids and stories. I snuck out of the back door before the 1-hour story. Would have stayed but had to get to all the parties. "Best party for the story." Millennium Philcon had Yellow watermelon, home made brew and gazpacho. "Best home made party."

SFF.net found wine, various beers, soft drinks and plenty of sustenance food, including hummus, bean dip, salad, assorted vegetables (more than most), and spinach dip in a bread boat, with chunks of bread to dip in everything.

LA for Westercon 2002 had two choices of brand name H₂O: Dannon and Vasa. Gunga Din would have loved the choices of H₂O. A different kind of nut – Cashews. Good mix of soda and juice boxes. "Best in Fast Food Party."

Bay Area for 2002 took my critique seriously from last night and re-arranged the room to improve movement of bodies. When I arrived they were conducting a weird raffle based on party attendees badge numbers. A Variety of Linux stickers were too big to put on your badge. They want you to stick around. "Best oversized sticker Party."

Conolulu Westercon more spacious than last night. The Hawaiian Punch got punched aside for a greater variety of soft drinks. The nuts were still Great. I got confused, no free leis.

Toronto in 2003 had a well stocked tub of beer, soda and apple cider. They were serving candy blocks. "Best all you can eat Lego Party!"

Room 453 was listed as Christian Fandom, but I found costumers and not Christian the Chair. Found typical costumers food (protein foods: meat and cheeses), drink and video. At entry of the room, it said it was the costumer's suite. It truly is the costumer's suite.

Agamemcon was an even longer hike than Austin Powers. Their theme was "Babylon 5 goes to the Beach." Got a lei as soon as I entered the room. They had a variety of 6 cheeses. Soda was warm (desperately needed an ice recharge). "Wisconsin and Chee-tos move over, this was the Cheesiest Party!"

The winner is: Sustaining Food for Fans on the $$$ budget dot net!

’Zanne

Meet Jerry.

NASFiC GoH Jerry Pournelle is a very active member of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. Here is another one of Jerry’s funniest quips and gaffes taken from the LASFS minutes.

Mike Glyer

Jerry Pournelle contributed his definition: "A paragraph is a group of sentences which expresses a single thought which is summarized in a topic sentence." Phil Castora said, "That’s when you write them, Jerry." The President appreciated what he called this "free writing lesson from a pro." Larry Niven agreed and added, "No need to repeat it, unless Steve Barnes is present." The meeting erupted. [September 4, 1997]

Attention all Department Heads: Have you added to your staff since the Program Book was printed? Has someone materialized out of nowhere and been indispensible? Today is the last day to tell the Daily Newsletter so we can print it.

Chaz