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Howdy and hola! Welcome to the cluttered home of that inveterate letterhack, sometime apan, Corflu host, Ditto Head, fan fund also-ran, wild wild Westercon runner, oft published if only occasionally fanthologized fanwriter, favored researcher for Joe Bob Briggs, editor/publisher of Light in the Bushel and "Fanthology '87," and professional gas-passer, Richard Brandt.

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On Location for Manos: The Hands of Fate On Location, 30 Years Later: the Manos Guys
l-r: Roy Anthony, Richard Brandt, Bernie Rosenblum (Stunt Coordinator/Actor), Bob Guidry (Director of Cinematography). Yes, that's Manos scenery behind us. Photographs by Craig Chrissinger
"The Hand That Time Forgot," my article on the making of Manos: The Hands of Fate, is now in print and online in MIMOSA 18
The sequel: Growing Up Manos, is now online as well!
Roll 'Em! See Bernie in a clip from Hotel Torgo, a new documentary about the making of Manos, at The Toronto Online Film Festival
Read All About It! I am quoted (however briefly) in Dalton Ross's The Worst Movie Ever Made in the June 10, 2005 issue of Entertainment Weekly. See a photo of the 1966 Manos premiere at El Paso's Capri Theater! See Shanka, and Jackey's bike!
Mr. and Mrs. America and All The Ships At Sea: Flash! NPR's quiz show Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me threw the spotlight on Manos in their celebrity guest segment...and you can listen to it here!

Fanthology '87
Revised from the print edition published for Corflu Ocho in 1991, this selection of some of the year's best fanwriting features Terry Carr, Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Dave Langford, Harry Warner, Jr., Marc Ortlieb, Gary Hubbard, Lilian Edwards, Christina Lake, Simon Ounsley, Cy Chauvin, Bruce Gillespie, Greg Benford, Linda Bushyager, Jeanne Gomoll, Arthur Hlavaty & Bernadette Bosky, adorned with illustrations by Teddy Harvia and a cover by Teddy and Peggy Ranson.

Duped Again!--The Official Record of Ditto 9

Light in the Bushel, my current (through the 1980s anyway) fanzine

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Favorite Online Haunts:
Alt.Folklore.Urban Archives
Urban Legends Reference Pages
U.K. Science Fiction Fandom Archives
FANAC Archives
Fancyclopedia II
Laurie Mann's Red Hot Links
Patrick and Teresa

The Rotsler Honors
Bill rubs shoulders with the great and near-great at a 1985 awards show
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Timeline of the Bush Disaster

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