davemerrill

Somehow I missed all that. Good prank though.

Wow, just wow. You realize you guys were a flyer away from being the next Scientology or something, right? Holy cats, you could have made a bundle. And then ended up in jail for mail fraud or some such. Or not.

That's the element you needed. the 'offical' way to make SF SAFE for Christians and other people. Hmmm, but then you'd have to build some meaningless device, or prepare a series of audiobook lectures...see, you have the good Dr. have a 'revelation' from GOD that SF *can* be good...

OTOH... Say someone...Mike Toole reading essays about 'How to properly read SF' while subtle music plays under him...man, you could have ruled the freakin' WORLD

Oh, joy! It is a wonderful site!

nice. and, boy howdy, like you said, the hoax announcement flyer was hella pretentious.

Wow, what a timely post. I just heard that Jesse Helms just died (Falwell, of course, being dead for a couple years now).

I must've gotten into so-called "fandom" on the tail end of this, because this is the first I've heard of this.

By 1994 I was at the point where I was glad nobody else had heard of it, that it had run its course. It would have vanished in 1990 if not for the actions of one single solitary man, a brave fighter against the forces of darkness that threatened to destroy Science Fiction as we know it, Roland Castle cough cough.

It was really eye-opening, the way magazines like Gauntlet would just run the flyer without attribution, and without even bothering to write us and ask us what the deal was. Instead they were all OH NOES ITS THE CHRISTIANS. I guess that's more fun, though, and certainly you won't sell copies of your anti-censorship magazine if you can't convince people somebody's out to censor you.

way to off jesse helms with your snide sense of humor. he totally just read this and his little racist heart couldn't take it. so now he's dead and it's all your fault. thanks, jerk. he owed me twenty bucks.

you're just lucky there's no law in canadia, so you'll get away with it.

Heh, part of it was how you folk, and by that I mean YOU FOLK, irrationally disdain Christians and the like for their just-as-silly "mundanes" nonsense-y-ness.

Anyway, I've posted a little diddy about my and others-who-shall-remain-nameless contributions to the hoax at my humble site with the previously believed lost flyer "A Message From Dr. LeNado".

My favorite part is to "loudly agitate in public places during business hours". Classic.

Thanks d00d for pulling it altogether. Great schtuff.

The lost flyer! IT IS FOUND!! Bless whatever quirk of fate led you to preserve that scrap of paper, because none of the rest of us have even a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of it.

Now if we could only get Weikert's take on the whole deal, we'd have the whole picture.

Did you... did you ever get the story on the whole thing that went down with MOC? Fandumb, and the Krony flyers, and the heart attack?

Heh, I thought you'd be amused that was still in my archives... it's my favorite piece from the whole affair.

I vaguely remember hearing about something bizarre happening at MOC and being greatly satisfied about it in my self-absorbed way, but I couldn't tell you any details after all these years.

Do tell! I'm drooling with anticipation at the "heart attack" idea...

Check yer email...........

Here are a couple of other odd early 90s fun things I found in my files this week:





I wish I had some of those flyers for The Hodads - I collected those obsessively, but those never turned up.

Didn't the Hodads kind of suck? Great flyers, but an unimpressive band...