The Crotchety Old Fan

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HELP! The Interocitor Has De-Coupled From the
Non-Synchronous Fribulator!
If anyone can offer some help with converting my blog from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org (hosted on my own site) I’d appreciate it.? I’m a non-CMS, non-PHP, non-CSS kind of person and I seem to be having some difficulties with: modifying the page template, adding widgets and transferring [...]

I forgot to cover a few points the other day while gushing about Chandler.?? What I most forgot to mention were links to Chandler material that’s available for free (or cheap) on the web.? Here you go:
Stories, articles, pictures and such are all available on David Kelleher’s Bertram Chandler website. In particular, you’ll find this [...]

In perusing the covers of science fiction pulp magazines (as I am known to do – it is a great and inspiring time-waster), I often notice themes or trends in both the artistic renderings and the subject matter.? Some subjects persist for decades.
One?subject that has persisted for a century is that of a view of [...]

It has been a while since I delved into the magazine collection.? AND. Everyone on the internet seems to like lists.? So here are my personal favorites – a Top 35 List – drawn from among the Volume 1, Number 1 magazines, starting with Amazing Stories in 1926 through the present.
My choices are highly subjective [...]

Hooray for Michael Moorcock!
I had the pleasure of meeting and greeting Michael years ago when he did an appearance and signing at the original SF Bookstore in NYC.? (I loved that store; it was tiny, dark and smelled of pulp. It was jam-packed with SF goodness and I never failed to find something to read.)
Mr. [...]