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I am continuing the propagation of this announcement to those who may read my LJ but not beamjockey 's or brotherguy 's: As so succinctly written by W. Skeffington Higgins, "Brother Guy Consolmagno, curator of the meteorite collection at the Vatican Observatory, will be a guest for a brief interview on Comedy Channel's The Colbert Report on this coming Tuesday evening, 1 December...

I've just posted followup remarks to my Windycon lecture including links to the only known nonfiction Heterodyne Boys book, the fabulous robot of Steven Savage which generates new HB adventures by the bushel, and a swell discourse on steampunk films.

beamjockey has been having lots of fun with the Life magazine photo archive , and here he's encountered one of the most famous Life images of all, the shot of an audience of people wearing 3D glasses. I was just talking about this image earlier and referred to it as an iconic image of people wearing red/green anaglyph lenses. But it turns out they're actually not--the movie is Bwana...

Go look at the amazing watermelon carvings . Link thanks to beamjockey .

beamjockey richly deserves an award for what may well be the Fanhistorical Find of the Decade: Through the Interstellar Looking Glass , a long, very fannish article by Winthrop Sargeant. It appeared in the May 21, 1951 issue of Life magazine. I've only skimmed over it myself, going OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG all the way. Screen images captured; Joe Siclari called. He hadn't heard of it before...

- My failed art panel at 10 am with dhole and Jim MacDonald seemed to go OK. Ways in which art can fail, things which make failed art worth having, and I now want to have a panel on ways of being generous to bad art at some point. - Poly panel mostly voluntarily embargoed for reasons of discretion, but was both constructive and fun. Also, don't start reading Heinlein with The Number...

Bill Higgins asks How good is the science behind "The Dawn of Man" portion at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey ? Note because apparently it's required: he's talking about the ape-men, not the role the monolith played in the movie.

isherempress posted an old GT group photo and we tried to name the people in it. Here's a tougher, or at least larger challenge. Name these GTers who attended beamjockey 's wedding:

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