From: <swstiles at comcast.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Bboondogle, was Re: David Dance?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:36:22 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:44 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Bboondogle, was Re: David Dance?

> >
> >>>> dicconf at radix.net 10/27/2006 11:19:18 AM >>>
> >
> >On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Elspeth Kovar wrote:
> >
> >> At 05:13 PM 10/26/2006, Candy Madigan wrote:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can you tell I'm finally pissed off enough to speak
out?
> >>>>
> >>>> Oh yes....... loud and clear.
> >>>
> >>> You know what makes me maddest?  The stupidity of this
whole
> >thing.  How on
> >>> *earth* could they have thought that doing this would
be
> >accepted, much
> >>> less condoned?  It's the self-destructivemess of the
whole thing
> >that
> >>> really gets me.
> >>
> >> I dunno.  Just because people accepted, condoned, and
even told
> >people to
> >> quit making a fuss over it for  -- what, four or more
years? --
> >shouldn't
> >> give the Gillilands any reason at all to think that
people would do
> so
> >again.
> >
> >(Shrug) It's been nearly forty years (and a legal
conviction and jail
>
> >sentence) and Walter Breen's original partisans are still
raving about
>
> >his
> >innocence every time the subject comes up.
>
> (Shrug) Why should fandom be any different from those
still fighting
> the Civil War?
>
> You, Ted White, And Steve Stiles are, I believe, the only
folks on
> either WSFA list who were there at the time.  Of what I
read, it was
> certainly a difficult time... and it was all done pretty
much postally.
> Imagine the Boondoogle via email... oh my.
>
> Hopefully forty years from now people will look back at
the current
> fiasco and also go (Shrug)....
>
> mjw
>
I haven't ranted in ages. Just don't ask me about my car.

--Steve