Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:18:55 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Christmas card
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 12/13/2006 8:44:56 PM >>>
>Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> You have to understand what the "revenge" is all about.  Alexis is
>> trying to gain revenge against WSFA -- for moving the meeting
>place
>> away from his house.  I mean, the *nerve*!  Alexis knows WSFA
>> meetings were his God-given right.
>
>I thought it was hyperbole when you first said that, but since he's
>calling an action of the club's president, vice president, treasurer,
>Capclave chair, and the majority of the club's membership a "coup,"
>that does seem to be the only possible interpretation.  Who else
>could
>it be a coup *against*?  Who is the established leadership whom the
>club's officers and members overthrew?

You forgot... this was all engineered by the head of Capclave 06
Programming, who according to Alexis was .... Mike Nelson!  Ok... the
fact that Mike wasn't the head of Programming and causes most of the
house of cards arguement Alexis puts forth to utterly collapse, well
that's just a minor inconvience and easily explained away... right?  "We
don't don't need no steenking logic..."

>To answer Candy's question about why anyone cares, it's not obvious
>to
>me whether non-WSFAns who read the five page screed will
>inevitably
>recognize it as entirely bogus.  If they don't, it can damage the
>reputation of numerous WSFAns in fandom at large.

The non-WSFAns who I know who are aware of the ruckus have generally
lowered their opinion of Lee & Alexis.  My sample is small and obviously
not wholly representative of much of anything.  Just my 2 cents worth.

>  And the
>phrasing of
>the Christmas card implies that it's going to non-WSFAn fans, people
>who know what WSFA is but don't know anything about what's
>happened
>in it in the past year.  These are the people being offered copies of
>the libelous letter.

And there's nothing we can do about the "mundanes" on their mailing
list.  Some might Google and come across the mirrored site of Rich
Lynch's now "redacted" history with Lee's declaration of service in
Southeast Asia and her realtionship to Fredric Brown.  They migt come
across one or both issues of File 770.

To quote one email I received describing Alexis's missives: "whose
correspondence fans pick up with radioactive-shielded tongs"  I don't
think we have much to worry about.

mjw