Subject: THANKS, NENSLO!

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2003 8:44 PM

Nenslo sent me a big box of Nenslo's trash.

What Nenslo throws out as trash are sometimes TREASURES to me, until I
have plowed through them, then mostly they'll be MY trash nd I'll pass
them on to the next addict.

Dozens and dozens of old sci fi paperbacks and magazines. Even the kind
of paperbacks that have two novels in one publication, and you have to
flip the book over and backwards to read the second novel. The flip
side.

Nenslo said earlier that I would be shouting Nenslo's praises and so I
am.

I had to wait in line at the PO for about half an hour, no
exaggeration, with NO new issue of The Onion, so it's a good thing it
was for THIS! Although, oddly enough, I got into such a lively
conversation with an old gal in line behind me, about postal spam and
sloth and incompetence and the News, that by the time I was called to
get my mail, I was actually sorry I couldn't stand in line longer.
Rarely does that happen.

I did not attempt to convert the old gal as it was not the time or
place.

Just the covers of these old sf books and mags had Princess Wei and me
panting when we ripped open the box. She likes the short stories in the
magazines and I like the novels that fit in your back pocket. And of
course the pictures ARE L.S.D.

The terse note that came with them said Nenslo wanted them out of the
house; Nenslo had read ALL of them and some TWICE. I know what Nenslo
means. These must be the ones Nenslo's sure Nenslo doesn't want to read
a third time. Nenslo's note said also to pass them on to somebody else
when I am done with them. Nenslo did not say NOT to pour them into the
creek at the wildlife refuge.

It just now occurs to me THE PERFECT PLACE for some of these when I'm
done with them -- the "studio" at Brushwood. There's a regular lending
library of old sf paperbacks and VHS monster movies in there. This
stuff will be right up the alley of those geek oldsters. Also many
young SubGenii will grab them for long bouts of alcohol-induced
excredmitational spasms on the comfortable campgound toilets.

Incidentally my idea of a Bring Nenslo to X-Day fund was not inspired
by this nonwasteful act of bulldada mailing he did. I got on my big
Pro-Nenslo kick mainly because it seemed to be time for somebody to do
one, since almost everybody else who posts a lot seemed to be disgusted
with him for one reason or another. You may have noticed that I
sometimes like to play Devil's Advocate. Nenslo however is far from the
Devil and in fact he's done so dag-blasted much great shit for the
Church Art and Word Box over the last 20 years that I figured it was
high time to get him a free plane ticket for a change (he's gotten 'em
for me somehow). Plus, believe it or not, in face to face conversation,
Nenslo is the very picture of courtesy. Way more so than some of his
critcs. If you know the fellow at all it's quite easy to understand why
he might want to avoid just about everybody or at least keep them just
barely within observational distance. So of course the idea of coming
to X-day and being put on display like The Elephant Man might well not
appeal to him. I just know that there's no other time I'd be able to
get my fellow cantankerous bastards to go in on it with me, knowm-sane?

So far the Fund has not skyrocketed, but, give it time.

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