If you're feeling a need to get riled up...

[bovil]

...drift on over to profgeek's Askance #5 (PDF) at efanzines.com. Check out "The Thin Veneer: Who a Fan?" by Arnie Katz.

Comments

Typo patrol

[cherylmmorgan.livejournal.com]

Dear me yes. How can Arnie have managed to mis-spell "Corpse Fandom" quite so many times?

Re: Typo patrol

[hazelchaz]

Hmmm.

Corpse Fandom...

I'm reminded of the joke about heaven with the punchline "Shhh, they think they're the only ones here."

Re: Typo patrol

[cherylmmorgan.livejournal.com]

I made that joke on Kevin's LJ a year or two ago. One of the Corpses got very upset. But is is very appropriate.

Join me...

[hazelchaz]

I'm starting a campaign called "Sci-Fi Is Okay" to reclaim the word "Sci-Fi" for fannish uses. Fandom's had such an inferiority complex about the term, that somehow we didn't notice when Sci-Fi channel started up two decades ago.

My point is that Sci-Fi is now used by the general populace to refer to that skiffy stuff, and not just to B-Movie fare. And that Sci-Fi has exactly as much (or as little) legitimacy as Science Fiction. (See also Ansible's regular "As others see us" quotes column.)