From Garth Spencer, The Obdurate Eye
From the N3F, Tightbeam 338.
New on e-Fanzines:
Added today at https://efanzines.com:
Archive issues of Heath Row’s Telegraphs & Tar Pits #35-38, Explosion Containment Umbrella #3, Snow Poster City #7, and new title Brass Hat Mind #1
Andy Hooper’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #47
Bill Plott’s Sporadic #68
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #21
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Bill
To take part, visit this very Web Site on Saturday afternoon, November 12, beginning at 1:00PM. At that time, instructions will be posted for those wishing to join the meeting on ZOOM!
Model Contest/Concours Modèles réduits:
November 5, 2022 – 5 novembre 2022
Expo Modèlistes Rive Nord
Centre Culturel du Complexe Du Val D’Espoir
17700 rue du Val D’Espoir
St. Janvier(Mirabel) Qc
de 9:00 a 16:00
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$ 2.00 per model entry
Entrée Exposants: $ 5.00 plus
$2.00 par modèle enscrit au concour
New posts on e-fanzines, Purrmews, and This Here
Catching up after a week away for Corflu, here are today’s updates at https://efanzines.com
New page for Philippa and Helen Ryder’s Through Space and Time
Perry Middlemiss’s Perryscope #27
Ray Palm’s The Ray X X-rayer #168
Bill Plott’s Sporadic #71 & 72
Nic Farey’s This Here…#58
Opuntia #536, edited by Dale Speirs
Octothorpe #69, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
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Bill
Watch this space in the coming two weeks for more information. And on Friday, November 11, take a minute to honour the service of our veterans, and to remember the fallen.
NOV 2022
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221025-why-did-t-rex-have-such-puny-arms
T. rex is almost as famous for its withered little arms as for its enormous teeth – they’re so totally out of proportion, they almost look like they’ve been plucked from another species and simply stuck on, in a throwback to the hilarious blunders of bone assembly from the 19th Century (such as the time Stegosaurus‘ signature diamond-shaped back plates were added to its tail instead).
“You can look at his arms and say, well, these are ridiculous. They’re so different than anything around today, what is the point,” says L J Krumenacker, a palaeontologist at Idaho State University.
With arms that might measure just 3ft (0.9m) long on a 45-ft (13.7m) individual, this formidable carnivore’s hilariously small appendages have been a source of intense speculation ever since they were discovered – despite decades of studying them, to this day no one has any idea what they’re for.
An event happening on the South Shore which will interest Discworld fans! Weird Sisters, the play.
[eFanzines] Pre-Corflu update at eFanzines
Added today at https://efanzines.com are:
BEAM #17 edited by Nic Farey and Ulrika O’Brien
Ethel the Aardvark #217 and archive issues 15, 183
Octothorpe #68, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line
Guy H. Lillian III’s Spartacus #60
Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #20
Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #28
From Joseph Major, Alexiad
From the N3F, 3 zines and sad news.
Alas, I must start with sad news about Justin E. A. Busch:
Hi George,
This is Erin, Justin’s partner. Sadly, he has been in a state of decline since his cancer came back, and he is not currenty capable of writing. In all likelihood, there won’t be any other Fanfaronades.
There’s some more here: https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/justin.busch
Please feel free to forward the news. I am checking his email periodically and people can also contact me directly if need be
Sorry to be the bearer of sad news,
Erin