The Crotchety Old Fan

You know, I really appreciate it when sites like File 770 or SFSignal pick up one of my posts and recommend it to their audiences; SFSignal plays to a very wide and diverse audience and is (IMHO) in far better touch with the core “tru fandom” audience than the 500 lb gorilla IO9; File 770 [...]

I do a lot of different things with SF pulp magazine covers – list them on my website for collecting purposes, find themes and collect them for ‘top 10′ posts on the blog, look at them endlessly – I’ve even recently begun to feature not only the covers but the insides of selected magazines on [...]

Here’s the second installament of our journey through the pulp magazines.
Still a couple of glitches in there – a few abrupt transitions on the musical score, a couple of clunky video cuts, but all in all I think the quality level is improved over V1., N1, the pilot episode.
This episode is also fairly brief – [...]

Woo Hoo!
I finally found my copy of Amazing Stories, volume 1, number 1, as well as several other vol 1, no 1 pulps that had gone astray!
I am much relieved.  I can now start doing the Electro-Pulp Video Magazine from the beginning of the SF pulp era, the way I had originally intended.
Issue 2 will [...]

Wow. It is finally finished.
For those who have not been following along, getting this first issue out, as rough as it is, has been a beeyatch!
Turns out I had a codecs issue with movie maker.
I screwed around for an entire day trying to get it chopped up into 4 managable eight+ minute segments, but [...]

Yes indeed. Late last night and early this morning I put the finishing touches on the first issue of EPVM.
I’m waiting for the final rendering and then I have to chop it up into 4 eight minute segments (it ran just over the half hour I was shooting for).
Later on today, after errands are [...]

I’m almost done editing the first issue of what I am now calling Electro-Pulp Video Magazine.
This first issue covers the January, 1939 issue of Startling Stories, which is intimately tied to Hugo Gernsback and Superman. There’s even a surprise visit from Isaac Asimov in the letter column.
Unfortunately, movie maker still gives me fits and [...]

I came up with (what I think) is a cool idea a few days ago and did some research today, played around with a few things and made sure I knew enough about windows movie maker to put it together.
I’m going to start doing a regular video feature on the pulp magazines in my collection, [...]

Winchell Chung, well known for his gaming, (particularly Ogre) artwork, his work on bringing mathematical certitude to space map illustration and his collecting and cataloging of nifty (and often obscure) information and imagery related to spaceships, space drives, spacesuits and lots of other spacey stuff, sent along a pic of a Buck Rogers trading card [...]

Several days ago I hinted that I had a ‘big thing’ coming up.
Today is the day, when I join Cheryl Morgan, Damien Walter, Mur Lafferty, John Shirley, Paul Graham Raven, Robert Sabella, Ian Sales, Jason Sanford, John Courtenay Grimwood, Karen Burnham, L Timmel Duchamp and Jonathan McCalmont, James Enge and Adam Roberts on SFSignal’s Mind [...]