The Crotchety Old Fan

This is going to be one of those round-up posts – but please pay attention as everything here today is important to someone, and some of them are probably important to a lot of someones.
First:  Gary Farber is in need of some assistance.  You can read the detail here.  If you can spare a few [...]

While searching for some images for the Classic Science Fiction Channel (I’m going to be adding a couple of films and a WHOLE BUNCH of educational/historical/fannish oriented links today) I happened across a gallery of photos from the 1957 London Worldcon on EFanzines.com.
Wow.? In particular, this photo of John W. Campbell, 4E Ackerman and Sam [...]

Via the email list that SHALL NOT BE NAMED – the DragonCon Parade video, courtesy of? Isaac Alexander.
Also Pac*Fen’s Denvention interviews are now up.
Gotta make my wife’s lunch before we leave for work, so I can’t critique right now – but – comparing the two – I’d much rather have been at Denvention this year.
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Lunch [...]

Hey – maybe SFAwards Watch and IO9 will want to pick up on this one:
Glyer reveals in File 770 that the Secret Masters of Fandom have been talking about something called SCOOTERS.
I haven’t puzzled out the entire acronym, but I’m pretty sure that the first two letters stand for Secret Code.
Mike cleverly conceals whatever hidden [...]

Well, as I feared, the acquisition of an RSS Reader has caused information overload.? There are far too many things to comment on, rebut, extend, investigate, research and write about, for me to know where to start.? Considering that I can’t seem to remember more than two pieces of information at a time (and I [...]