Personal holiday
May. 5th, 2023 04:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
supergeeToday is my fanniversary. On the auspicious date of 5/5/77 I decided I was more scared not to publish a zine than to do one, so I printed up and mailed out the first Diagonal Relationship. Most of the good things in my life come from that decision.
Doing a zine led me to amateur press associations (apas), which I loved, as they gave me opportunities to wise-ass about everything. I was in over a dozen at a time, and for years my favorite was LASFAPA. For me as for many the Web did what apas are for even better (to a greater extent than even zines) so apas are now almost historical, and this week we lost Marty Cantor, who ran LASFAPA during its glory years. If there is ever an apa hall of fame, Marty belongs there.
Doing a zine led me to amateur press associations (apas), which I loved, as they gave me opportunities to wise-ass about everything. I was in over a dozen at a time, and for years my favorite was LASFAPA. For me as for many the Web did what apas are for even better (to a greater extent than even zines) so apas are now almost historical, and this week we lost Marty Cantor, who ran LASFAPA during its glory years. If there is ever an apa hall of fame, Marty belongs there.
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Date: 2023-05-05 02:29 pm (UTC)Go you!
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