When I was first introduced to Science Fiction Fandom in 1977, one of the first people I ever met regularly at cons was Mike Glicksohn. I learned several things from him, even if they didn’t catch on immediately to my boyish brain - that you should never get involved in a poker game unless your were really good at it, and to avoid Diablo (a ( Read more... )

Originally published at Memnison Journal. You can comment here or there.

Larry Sanderson has the videos from the Hugo ceremonies on Google Video; this link goes to his LJ post with the videos, including the Harlan and Connie one.

You tell me.  I think that some people might have missed the actual event or thought that it was some very weird/icky ( Read more... )

Originally published at Memnison Journal. You can comment here or there.

• Wife Swap: the show, of course, which Meredith somehow saw about a half an episode of tonight and stubbornly inflicted on the rest of us. No, we did not get a letter about possibly being on the show, though some people we know seem to have. We’re totally uninterested in doing ( Read more... )