Friday March 7, 2014  Demonstrators against the former Ukrainian government were zombies.  More precisely: according to a Crimean separatist interviewed by Canadian radio news program As It Happens, they'd been given drugs which took away their free will.

***I shopped at Dollar Tree -- which, unlike other dollar stores, actually prices things at a dollar (sometimes less.)

Food giveaway at Community Emergency Services.

Saturday March 8, 2014 "Some of the rewards of the inclusion of this bilateral relationship await the reader of the footnotes, as when Langley observes that when the U.S. War Department was preparing its filing-cabinet plan for a possible invasion of Canada in the 1930s, it issued a request for maps of western Canada to the Canadian authorities. (Presumably, the request did not include the rationale.)"
Max Paul Friedman. Review of Langley, Lester D., _America and the Americas: The United States in the Western Hemisphere_.
H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews. March, 2014.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31891

***Mail:  Minicon 49 Progress Report 2 (resent after Postal Service screwed up.)

Suggested programming includes:  Atheist Writing Panel.  Apparently, no one suggested Christian, pagan, Jewish, etc. writing panels.

Rock & Roll in Speculative Fiction -- It's Hip to Be Square.  I don't think rock is the music of the future; but not all spec-fic is set in the future.

I won't be at Minicon this year.  I do expect to be at next year's Minicon.