Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 14:52:13 -0500 Subject: Welcome to SWILnews, there's room for you.... We picked schlock. Schlock will be, by consensing Quaker tradition, 1) "Jubilee" - something about post-apocalyptic punk lesbians in London. 2) "Reptilicus" - lizard tail comes to life and terrorizes millions. 3) "Dark Star" - beach balls in space. At least we think this is what schlock will be. We'll be phoning soon. Showtimes will be at the beginning of exam week. There will be propaganda, so don't you fret. SUBMIT, I REPEAT, TO BEM! Give me stuff at the meeting on Saturday. Or later on Saturday. But I do mean Saturday. We actually need short stories and art - poetry seems to be doing okay. But don't let that discourage you. If ya got it, submit it. PLEASE, DAMN YOUR EYES! [Too late. --MF] Or any other convenient organ. C'mon. LIVE CHESS! That'd be Saturday @ 2:30 in TIC or Parrish beach, depending on whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not. Showing up at 2 would be nice, so we can lay out the board and sort pieces. If you've already declared allegiance, come wearing that color. Makes things look neat. If you have questions, talk to Josh. JUDITH MOFFETT with 2 t's! [Not four M's and a silent Q? -B] [SOME people don't think silent letters are funny, Jere7my. --D] That'd be tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 in Dupont 190. Y'all should go. It would be embarrassing if she had no audience. It'll be fun. Really. I bet she'll use fewer big words than Delaney. Find out why she nukes Philadelphia in most of her stories. T-SHIRTS! That'd be on the SWIL board. Sign up to get one. They're $8.50. REVIEW THE LAST, BY JEFF HILDEBRAND OTHER PEOPLE SHOULD START REVIEWING BOOKS NOW JEFF HAS A LOT IN ML4220, x8016 _The Quiet Pools_ by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. Despite some startlingly graphic and gratuitous sex scenes [Despite? -B] and some implications I did not agree with at all, this is a very good book. A familiar SF plot device is the mass exodus of humanity from Earth, normally with the travellers being viewed and great heros and brave explorers. Kube-McDowell takes a less starry-eyed view, looking at some of the problems such an project would have in getting started. In so doing, he creates several interesting characters and establishes an air of moral ambiguity around their actions. This provides a thoughtful, contemplative air which provides a very interesting read. Worth checking out. ATTENDANCE DE THE 28TH DE MARCH Deb "I'm first! I'm first!" Sam; Charles "I have _two_ evil twins?" Deily; Nao "It Came from Beneath the Sea" Parkhurst; ANDY "SHAKESPEARETHEORYOFCRITICISMMOD ERNCOMPARATIVELITERATURENINETEENTHCENTURYPHILOSOPHYHERMENEUTICSANDCONTEMPORA YTHEORIESOFINTERPRETATIONTHESISAAAAAAA!" PERRY; Jeff "Expecting a life of abject poverty" Hildebrand; Deb "What? Dinosaur? WHERE!?!?" Holtzman; David "Open the door/get on the floor/ Everyone walk their dinosaur!" R [that's his or her dinosaur, and it's not funny --D]; Kathy "Shakespeare once wrote a book of vocalizing excercises [sic] (neat fact o'the day)" Davis; Josh "The Cat from Outer Space is really prety weird" Burdick; Eric "A new board game based on the musical Chess. It has a checkered..." Nute; Cherry "Back from the land of dark" Anderson; Gloria "Sighing Flurrel" Wong; Charles "Signing Fury" Dan4th; Annie "Josh B., remember that cats control the universe" Fox; Luke "I am a mutant killer beachball" Hankins; Geoff "No Killer Tomatoes?" Noer; Dave "who" Sobel; Dan "{no comments today}"; Andrea "Passed over last week" Hall; Josh "Illusionary Sudden Death" Smith; Jen "2 down, one to go" Setlow; Kendra "a person who is here" Eshleman [kind of like Hawaii - except you're not an island and you're not in the Pacific --D] -- Bamage and Drain