Enter the OE, bookmarking his place in “The Black Stranger”:<\/p>\n
Rather proclaim it, Doc Pod, online and off,
\nThat he which hath no ideas for this Mailing,
\nLet him gafiate; his name from the roster stricken,
\nAnd dues refunded put into his man-purse;
\nWe would not zine in that fan’s company
\nThat spares not his weekend to zine with us.
\nThis day is call’d the feast of [Tim] Marion,
\nHe that outlives this day, and comes safe to #201,
\nWill stand a tip-toe when this Mailing is nam’d,
\nAnd rouse him at the thought of August of ’06
\nHe that shall zine this day, and live to look like Burl Ives,
\nWill quarterly one night neglect the remote,
\nAnd say ‘Twas not always but a single section.’
\nThen will he fetch his stacks and show his zines,
\nAnd say ‘These printing problems I had in Mailing #200.’
\nAll shall be Mylared; or sold off on eBay,
\nBut he’ll remember, with advantages,
\nWhat pages he filled that day. Then shall our names,
\nFamiliar in his mouth as usual suspects —
\nIndy the OE, Rippke and Trout-in-the-Dark,
\nRichter and Gramlich, Romeo and Sea-Burke
\nBe in their flowing cups beerily remembered.
\nThis story shall the good fan teach his son;
\nAnd deadlines shall ne’er force FedEx,
\nFrom this Mailing to the ending of the world,
\nBut we in it shall be remembered —
\nWe few, we serconn’d few, we apa of brothers;
\nFor he today that sheds his ink with me
\nShall be my brother; be he ne’er so minacked,
\nThis day shall excuse his reprint;
\nAnd gentlefans at innercircle now-a-bed
\nShall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
\nAnd hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks
\nThat zined with us for Mailing #200.<\/p>\n
LEO ADDS:<\/strong> That was wonderful. Although once we receive Indy’s package, you may change your tune to “We didn’t land on Mailing #200, Mailing #200 landed on us!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Enter the OE, bookmarking his place in “The Black Stranger”: Rather proclaim it, Doc Pod, online and off, That he which hath no ideas for this Mailing, Let him gafiate; his name from the roster stricken, And dues refunded put into his man-purse; We would not zine in that fan’s company That spares not his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehupa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/6450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}