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I finished scanning a bunch o' pictures for Drewan last night, uploaded them to fotki.com and burned them onto a CD. The scanner took on some rather odd sized pictures. Many of them were large, and some, panorama shots, I had to scan by hand -- put the pictures down on the scanner and punch a button. Some of the hand-scans, it picked out the edge of the picture, others had the track feed showing and I had to cut it out with software. You could go to fotki.com to see them, but they're protected. You'll just have to dream that they're much more daring than they actually are. I'm still trying to figure out the panorama Christmas village shots, but then again, maybe that's just me. I expect more D & A shots from a leather club, and, as I whined to Drewan, a few cute slave boys to help me sort the pictures out by size. The long ones -- for pictures, not for panorama shots -- I had to remove from the out slot as the scanner spit them out. They tended to fall on the floor after a few collected and then the scanner got all upset and declared a feeding problem. The last shot I scanned is a huge panorama shot of the back of a TV set and the front of somebody's boots. I really think it an accident. There's not enough of the boots showing for a good fetish shot, and I've never heard of a fetish about the backs of TV sets. Yet.

I did uncompress the drive I was storing the scans on. I was getting too many "Unable to save" notices from the scanning software. It seems to have gone away. I also kept scanning smaller stacks of pictures. The software must be saving a huge temp file as it scans -- it only writes it out when the job is done. This, I found, works not well if I keep stacking more pictures up on the in slot. I was getting lots and lots scanned, but then it would fail to write them to the storage area. I never did check the temp files.

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Drewan has threatened to bring more pictures by tonight to scan.

I kept flipping between Everwood on WB and SG-1 on SciFi last night. Everwood seems like it has a story buried in there someplace that once in a great while they manage to pull up and show off like the belly of a fish, but then the fish escapes back under the water and the story gets lost like the dark back of the fish. It's also excessively sentimental. It plays the fish out of water, NY Jews in the heartland, children against parents, sick against doctor, contrasts. Even the dead mother played last night. I guess I'd like to see her contract.

Speaking of fish, anybody need a few jewel fish? Free to a good home. They're small now, but they get big and glittery.

Minicon/MNSTF/Mpls in '73 party at Marscon Saturday night. Last chance to register forMinicon 38 at the party rate.

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Just added to Illusion’s late winter schedule, ANOTHER SONG ABOUT PARIS will have four performances only, February 27 - March 2.
ANOTHER SONG ABOUT PARIS will present the city through the eyes of two very different travelers: Prudence Johnson had the help of a well-placed Parisian connection to whisk her past uncharacteristically obliging maitres d’ to the best tables in the best restaurants and jazz clubs in town. Dan Chouinard went as a lone traveler with an accordion on his shoulder, a flâneur wandering with no other aim than to disappear into the life and serendipity of the streets.

ANOTHER SONG ABOUT PARIS will feature music by Django Reinhardt, Edith Piaf, Kurt Weill, including songs such as "La Vie en Rose," "C’est si Bon," "Poor People of Paris," "J’ai Deux Amours," "King Louie," "Last Time I Saw Paris," "I Love Paris" and more.

ANOTHER SONG ABOUT PARIS will have four performances only: Feb. 27, Feb. 28, March 1 at 8PM, and March 2 at 2PM. Tickets are $26. All seating is reserved. Call the box office at 612-339-4944 or order on-line www.illusiontheater.org.

Tickets are also available at the Historic State Theatre Box Office (hours: Monday - Friday 9am - 6pm / Saturday & Sunday 12pm - 5pm), all Ticketmaster outlets including Mervyn's, Rainbow Foods and Marshall Field's or charge by phone 612-673-0404. Purchase tickets online at www.ticketmaster.com. Group discounts are available by calling 612-373-5665 or send e-mail inquiries to groupsales@ orpheum.com. Please note that additional Ticketmaster fees will apply to all ticket purchases made through the Historic State Theatre Box Office or other local Ticketmaster outlets.

Illusion Theater is located in the Hennepin Theatre District in downtown Minneapolis. Illusion is on the top floor of the historic Hennepin Center for the Arts at the corner of 6th Street & Hennepin Ave. The theater is wheelchair accessible.

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Of course, there's also MarsCON...