The Drink Tank 218 (2009).pdf

The Drink Tank 218

garcia@computerhistory.org

My WorldCon Schedule!

OK, I am completely aware that it’s incredibly dificult to programme a WorldCon. It’s

like herding cats into a third story window from what I’ve seen. Still, this year’s schedule

is pretty rough on me, and the biggest problem, it doesn’t have me attending the Hugos

Reception! These things happen, but I really hope they let me go to the reception because

that’s the most awesome part! Free food, getting to gush to fantastic artists and writers,

free booze, getting treated like a minimal Big Shot in a room full of truly BIG Big Shots. It’s

great!

Here’s my schedule, if you’re gonna be trying to ind me.

Friday: 11am- Cons, Cokes and Couches

Christopher J. Garcia, J. Mitchell Dashoff, Warren Buff

This one’s all about Teens and Fandom. I’m the one who’s furthest out from his

teens, but I feel in touch with many of the members of teen fandom. I wish James Bacon

were on this panel, since he’s done a lot in this area. I’ll probably prepare for this the least,

but it should be pretty good. I did a similar panel at Denver. Warren’s the moderator. I like

that guy!

Friday- 10pm- Steampunk

Ann VanderMeer, Christopher J. Garcia, Gail

Carriger, Kristin Norwood, Nick Matthews

Ah, Steampunk. This one will be where I’ll debut

my new zine, Exhibition Hall, with a preview issue.

It’ll basically be a cover, an intro article, a few photos

and a couple of short articles. No fuss, no muss. Ann

VanderMeer is good people and I’m glad I get to be on a

panel with her. I know Gail a little from SteamPowered,

where she ran the programming, and I believe she has

a book coming out or already out. I saw her briely at

BayCon. Kristin Norwood is someone I don’t know and

can’t seem to ind on bios or anything, so I’m going to say

that she’s an artiicial construct made of brass and glass.

Nick Matthews is another guy I wasn’t able to ind out

much on, so I’ll just say that he’s a former Ivory dealer

who invented a new kind of Elephant gun that vaporizes

Elephant meat, leaving behind only the bones and the

great scent of Brut. This could be a fun one.

Saturday: 11am- Fanzine Cover in an Hour

Taral Wayne, Christopher J Garcia, Frank Wu, Steve

Stiles

This should be a fun one. I’m going to be coming

up with a small zine, maybe two articles, three pages, and

the three of the panelists will be creating a cover of it. I’ve

got a lot to prepare for this one, so it should be fun. I’ve got some funky left-hand turns to

throw at the folks!

Saturday: 12:30pm- Lost in a world of “Lost”

Ana Oancea, Christopher J. Garcia, Cynthia Huckle, kT FitzSimmons, Perrianne

Lurie, Kim Vandervort

I wrote the write-up for this panel! Small victories. It’s an interesting set of panelists

as well. I’ve only been a Lost fan for the last three seasons and I actively don’t like the

irst season and a half. I can’t seem to ind out much about the others on the panel. I

wanna make sure that I get my questions out there, because with Lost, it’s more about the

questions than the answers.

Saturday: 2pm- The Greatest Fan Writer Besides Me

Cheryl Morgan, Christopher J. Garcia, Evelyn Leeper, Steven Silver, John Hertz

Wow, that’s a panel. Cheryl Morgan is a friend and one of the best fanwriters of the

last decade. John Hertz is a mensch and also one of the best fan writers of the last couple

of decades. Evelyn Leeper is a great fan writer, though sadly I’ve not read as much of

her stuff as the others. Steven Silver is a great guy (and he’s got an article in this issue!)

and I’m just there. Evelyn’s the moderator and I’ll be talking about some of my faves who

folks don’t see a lot of (Leigh Ann, Ed Green, Fran k Wu) and, of course, the guys who are

everywhere that I love (Taral, James Bacon, Claire, Lloyd Penney, Niall). It’ll be interesting

to see how this one goes.

Saturday: 12:30pm- The Hugo Awards: Dramatic Presentation: Long Form

Christopher J. Garcia, Gayle Blake, Louis Savy, Steve Green, Traci N. Castleberry

That’s right; both the TAFF delegate and the NA TAFF administrator are on a panel

not about Fan Funds! This should be a good one, and sadly Daniel Kimmel isn’t on it. If

you read his take on the nominees, you’ll see why I want him on the panel. I’ve got a lot to

say on this one (Good: an audio nominee! Bad: is Dark Knight really science iction?) and I

think it’ll be a good panel. I’m excited to hang with Steve on this one!

Sunday: 2pm- Fan Funds Explained

Alan Stewart, Christopher J. Garcia, Flick

Christian, Janice Gelb, Steve Green

Good people on this one. Janice is a friend, a

former Bay Area fan, and once a year or so I show

Janice and Stephen around the Museum. Alan is a

great guy who sent me a pair of Cherry Ripe variants

that were amazing. Flick is a bunch of fun. Steve’s

good people, and thus, we have a really solid crew.

I think we have reps from all three of the major fan

funds (TAFF, DUFF and GUFF).

Sunday: 3:30pm- Great Fanzine Other Than Mine

Christopher J. Garcia, Guy H. Lillian III, Steven

Silver, Christian Sauvé

This one is a fun one, and I’ve got a lot of

fanzines to recommend. Steven Silver has been in the

Drink Tank a bunch of times, and I’ve appeared in

Guy’s Challenger and Steven’s Argentus. I don’t know

about Christian Sauvé, but I’m sure he’s a good guy. I

might try to have a few issues of The Drink Tank or Journey Planet to hand out at this one.

Sunday: 10pm- Technobabble Quiz

Christopher J. Garcia, Kevin Roche, Kij Johnson, Steven Silver, Frank Wu, James

Bacon

This is one that I did at Con Jose and I get to do again. It’s a weird combo of Quiz

show and audience participation show. Really, it’s Says You and Wait, Wait all mashed up

with Techno stuff. They put it at a bad time and this one I’d expect they’ll change. If you see

only one panel that I’m on, this would be the one. Plus, it has Kij Johnson, who may have

just collected a Hugo if the time doesn’t change.

I was also scheduled for a 7pm Sunday panel on Antique technology, but alas, that’s

the Hugo Reception and I’m psyched for that! I felt bad dropping it because I’ve never

chatted with Martin Hoare and he’s going to be on the panel.

This issue’s cover was from Jason Bentley (jasonbentley on Twit-

ter), while the piece above is from T. Rog, aka Tom Rogers. Cousin

Claire’s at it again with her version of Black Canary or the girl from

Moulin Rouge. Sam Hannah is the Wind-Up Girl artist. The photos

with Steven’s article were given to me by Steven, but I don’t think

he took them. The poster is from Pathe pictures and it’s the cover

is from Lloyd’s book. The internet piracy images are from Dana Col-

lidge and KIm Mizel. Of course, the Dork Knight is from Dann Lopez.

Gotta love Dann.

Steven Silver sent me this, and it’s about the greatest of the Silent Film Comedians,

so how could I not run it?

I’ve been writing a series of essays about silent ilm comedians for E-APA and will be

publishing each of them in a variety of different generally available ‘zines. You can ind other

articles in Chunga, Reluctant Famulus, and Askance. Once all are inished, I’ll be collecting

them together, adding some additional material, and publishing it in Argentus.

Harold Lloyd

Steven Silver

Harold Lloyd was born in Kansas on April 20, 1893 in

Burchard, Nebraska to J. Darcie “Foxy” Lloyd and Elizabeth

Fraser Lloyd. Years later, in his ilm 1932 Movie Crazy, his

character, Harold Hall, would leave Nebraska to become a big

movie star in Hollywood. Hall had a much less successful go

of it than Lloyd.

His mother had been interested in a career as a singer

and she supported Lloyd’s own interest in that general

direction. Lloyd irst was grabbed by the acting bug in 1903,

when he was cast in a local performance of “Hamlet.” He

continued to appear on stage as his family moved around

Nebraska and Colorado as Foxy, tried to ind steady work. After Foxy and Elizabeth got

divorced in 1910, Lloyd and his elder brother, Gaylord, shuttled back and forth between

their parents for several years. After Foxy was hit be a beer truck in 1913 and was awarded

a $3,000 judgment. Foxy and Harold lipped a coin to decide if they should move east or

west, with the result that they moved to San Diego, where Foxy attempted to open a pool

hall (and failed). Harold continued to take on roles on the stage with no desire to try out for

the ilms which were being created just up the coast. However, ilm was more lucrative than

stage work, and, given Foxy’s failure as an entrepreneur, Harold eventually began to appear

in ilms, usually as a background actor.

Lloyd had one feature, whether a shortcoming or an opportunity depends on the

viewer, that Chaplin, Keaton, Arbuckle, and Turpin all lacked. All the other ilm comedians

had come up through Vaudeville and had polished their acts and routines in front of live

audiences. Their issue was translating their routines to the new medium. Lloyd, however,

did not have that background upon which to draw. He had a few brief stints in the

legitimate theatre and had trained with stage actor John Lane Connor when he irst arrived

in San Diego, but his acting was created and honed on the screen.

During this time, Lloyd became friends with another background actor, Hal Roach.

When Roach came into an inheritance, he decided to open his own studio, irst known as

Phun Philms and later Rolin. Roach hired Lloyd who created a character, Will E. Work.

It became clear that the character did not work, so Lloyd created a Chaplin knock-off,

Lonesome Luke. The character of Lonesome Luke appeared in nearly sixty ilms and was

successful enough that it allowed Roach to get a distribution deal with Pathé.

As Lonesome Luke, Lloyd was cast in tragic-comic roles as someone who was down

and out. Roach felt that Lloyd could be a bigger actor playing a different type of character,

although he was concerned that without some sort of disguise (as Luke, Lloyd wore a fake

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