Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 08:16:00 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Life, Such As It Is
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 5/8/2005 6:30:21 PM >>>
>I see that in addition to his tooth problems, Mike is also plagued,
>once again, by MIME.  Next time, don't just take your mail program
>our and shoot it, Mike; drive a stake through its heart.

Well, I suspect the IT folks here at JHUP would disapprove of that.

>
>Hardback books aren't really 317.99, they're 17.99.  The extraneous=20
>3
>is a MIME dropping.  And that garbled URL should be
>
>http://onion.com/news/index.php?issue=3D4118&n=3D1=20
>
>I've put back the MIME fix for pound signs.

I'll ask the IT folks about this, but not now, heading to NYC in a few =
hours.

>
>I'm still working on the meeting minutes.  Can someone remind me=20
>who
>was giving out back issues of Locus?  Thanks.  For those who can't
>wait:  There were no serious nominations from the floor, so the
>trustees' slate was elected by acclamation.  The meeting locations
>in June are swapped.  ARCs of _Future Washington_ were present,=20
>and
>I am currently proofreading one.  (There is no "u" in "Ozymandias".)
>
>Mike is also plagued by doppelgangers.  Spotted recently in rasff:
>
>  From: "Ulrika O'Brien" <ulrika at u.washington.edu>
>
>  I think it must have been the former, just because my first date
>  with Mike Walsh (no, the other one) was not long after, at the=20
>Mardi
>  Gras carnival at UCLA.
>
>  From: "Matthew B. Tepper" <oy=FE at earthlink.net>
>
>  I know of two Mikes Walshes, so I'm not sure which you mean by=20
>"the
>  other."  During the Scottish Worldcon, I went bookstore crawling
>  with LASFSian Anne Morrell and the Mike Walsh as was formerly
>  married to Martha Soukup.  This same Mike Walsh also once sent=20
>me a
>  cassette of his piano compositions which I enjoyed very much. =20
>(One
>  of them was a Quodlibet on Movie Themes by John Williams which=20
>is a
>  *lot* of fun to listen to!)

Matthew I met eons ago, the last time was at a LASFS meeting (2 years =
ago...?)

>
>  From: "Kate Schaefer" <kate at oz.net>
>
>  I can't tell which Mike Walsh *is* the other one. That is, the tall,
>  ginger-haired Baltimore Mike is the main Mike to me, and the (I
>  think) Vancouver, B.C., Mike is the other one, but I think there
>  may be yet another fannish Mike Walsh besides.

& Kate was one of the "lucky few" who helped keep Iguanacon going.  Oh, =
was that a funfilled weekend.  It was around then that she changed her =
name to Kate, previously she was Kathi.

>
>  From: Ulrika O'Brien <uaobrien at earthlink.net>
>
>  Ah, but clearly you *can* tell which Mike Walsh is the other one
>  since it is, in fact, neither of those.  "My" Mike is the one who
>  started out in fandom at LASFS, dragged along there by fellow
>  (Cal)Techer, Mike Gunderloy, who was subsequently (and for all I
>  know still is) married to Martha Soukup but who is now Claire=20
>Eddy's
>  (often entirely invisible) squeeze.  Grad school pretty much killed
>  Mike's written fanac, afaict, so there's not much reason you would
>  know him unless you were hanging out in the SFWA suite or the=20
>TOR
>  party at the relevant conventions...
>
>  From: "Matthew B. Tepper" <oy=FE at earthlink.net>
>
>  It is my understanding that Techer Mike Walsh is no longer married
>  to Martha, but they are still friends.  Since I have friendly
>  feelings toward both of them (and toward Cally, for that matter),
>  I needn't find myself in any awkward situations in this regard.
>
>  From: Cally Soukup <soukup at pobox.com>
>
>  Still officially married; unofficially just best friends, as I
>  understand it.  At least, I've not heard of any divorce, and I'm
>  pretty sure I would.

Ok, here's the line up...
Michael R. Walsh - former Chicago fan, married to the writer Martha Soukup =
(separated but remain friends) and the squeeze of Claire Eddy of Tor.  =
Michael R. came to Disclave one year.  Confused the hell out of people.  =
Nowadays Claire makes their con hotel room reservations due to past hotel =
confusion.

Michael Walsh of Vancouver fandom.  Involved in some past V-cons, beyond =
that I don't know much else.

Of course there's Google.... lotsa luck.

mjw