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[lsanderson]

Minicon meeting today. Kelly called and wanted to do something. Often this
ends up with us being either at the Uptown Bar (we've given up our vendetta
against 'em) two bloody marys to the wind or at the Eagle beer bust. We talked
movies, but I'm uncertain how long the Minicon meeting will last. Last one
lasted a long time, but mostly because I helped Laura do her Xmas cards
afterwards.

I seriously need to print some
additional MNSTF folders. I've not gotten around to it in the bustle around the
holidays. Still have most of the paper, although two young girls had a whale of
a time drawing and cutting it during my Hair-of-the-Dog party. Using the
assorted pastel papers, a pencil (black lead), a crappy pair of scissors, and a
camera tripod (which they were using as a microphone), the two entertained
themselves for hours. (One was pulled literally screaming from the house when
her parents left.) A magnetic attraction, and a total use of imagination kept
them going, a short interlude with a stranger where everything clicks and
becomes magical, where a blank sheet of paper teases you with its ability to be
anything, and each object becomes as you imagine it, unencumbered by reality. I
think we love those periods we had as a child, and try, with our adult toys, to
go back to those brief periods of interaction where magic infused everything
around us. But, of course, we can't.

E-mailed Gregg about working the
consuite for the World Fantasy Convention when it's here in Minneapolis, but
have not heard back from him. I've been told he's not an e-mail person, and I'm
seriously wondering about trying to work with those who are not.

Just glanced at my bookshelf and
realized I must have bought a copy of the Lord of the Rings pirate. I bought the
first two off a book rack in Fargo before I was in college. The rack only had
the last two volumes, not the first, so I read the final two before I read the
first. At some point, I then bought a copy of the Hobbit. I think I never found
the first volume in the Ace pirate and bought the Ballantine (either for 0.95 or
$1.25, terribly more than the Ace pirate's 0.75 at the time). The paper in the
Ace versions have turned almost golden, and the bindings would not allow me to
read them. The Ballantine copy of the first book appears missing. There's no
print date in the Ace versions (obviously, no copyright either).

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Yeah, Greg (two Gs, one at each end) is not an email person at all. Just give him a call or stop by the store - 612-823-6161.