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Vol. 1 No. 1 |
January 2002 |
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One is the loneliest
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By Earl Kemp
THIRTY-SEVEN years ago I produced my last fanzine. It was an issue of SaFari for FAPA. Since then, numbers of misguided people have tried to get me involved in producing another one, all to no avail. So, what the hell am I doing here and now?
Going even further out of my mind, no doubt, as numbers would testify. Yet here it is, whatever it is, my ezine . . . a run-away compulsion having taken over and making it happen again.
When I knew it was going to happen, the first thing I asked myself was "what's it called?" but I didn't know. And, always in the past such a significant thing as the masthead required lots of thought to make sure it was right in the first place.
Everything I write, lately, has one purpose only, hastening my memoirs. The single word that I overuse the most, the single letter, is "I" therefore it's only appropriate that I name my ezine I. Of course I gave serious consideration to naming it eGO, but I was much simpler and more to the point.
Me, me, me. Mine!
The only subject of my memoirs is me, and I'm really trying to get me right. I need all the help I can get from anyone with corrections, additions, changes, or anything else. That's the main reason I'm putting portions of my rough-draft, in-progress memoirs out for grabs in the first place . . . to get help in making them better. That help comes from you and you can send it to me at earlkemp@citlink.net whenever you're ready.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch . . . thank you very much for clicking by and checking out my ezine. I is determined to be the best me we ever possibly could . . . just for you.
FOR ISSUE 1 I have chosen an article by my good friend and Advent partner, George W. Price to be the kick-off piece. The article is a forerunner to Advent's upcoming fifth anniversary, an occasion of considerable significance.
Following George's article are two pieces from my memoirs, "Berlin 1929" and "The Ballad of Killer Kemp."
Closing out this first issue of my ezine is a reprint ad from 1962 that I think of rather fondly. I hope you have found something of value or at least amusement in this issue, and that you will take the time to email me your thoughts and suggestions for future improvement.
---Earl Kemp, January 2002
*For my dear old big-hearted friend Howard DeVore; thanks for making I possible.Dated January 2002.
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