I had lunch today with the editor of the Chicon Restaurant Guide and four of her staff. I would not be the one to ask to write a review of the dining establishment at which we ate ( Read more... )

Issue 11 of my Hugo-nominated, Chronic Rift Roundtable Award-winning fanzine Argentus went live yesterday to mark my silver anniversary in fandom ( Read more... )

Next weekend, from September 22 to 24, I'll be serving the good people of Fencon as their Fan Guest of Honor ( Read more... )

Back in late 2000, I was at work when my wife called to tell me I had a phone message from Martin H. Greenberg. I figured that there could be a number of different things Marty was calling about and when I got home, I returned the call, expecting it to be about one of the more mundane topics. It turned out not to be about Windycon, Chicon, or any ( Read more... )

The Great Race (Push the button, Max)
The Princess Bride (When I was you age, television was called 'books.')
The In-laws (Jose Greco de muertos, the flamenco dancers of death) (I'm such a great driver, it's incomprehensible they took my license away.)
Murder by Death (You look over the first dead, naked body that we find and I'll look over the ( Read more... )

Joel's wife, Felicia Herman, has announced that Joel died on June 2, a day after he suffered a respiratory depression that caused a heart attack, anoxic brain damage and major organ failure ( Read more... )

I'll be attending Marcon this year for, I think, the first time since it moved to Memorial Day Weekend, as I've since then been either attending Wiscon that weekend or spending it with *gasp* my family ( Read more... )

NBC has announced that Chuck has been renewed for a final thirteen-episode season ( Read more... )

Arthur Marx (1921-2011) died yesterday.

Marx was the son of Groucho Marx and his first wife, Ruth Johnson. By 1939, he was a ranked tennis player and lost to Bobby Riggs in the finals of the Cincinnati Masters in 1941.

He wrote the plays Minnie's Boys, about his grandmother, father, and uncles, and Groucho: A Life in Review, as well as three ( Read more... )

50 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) achieved an age-old dream of mankind and became the first human to see our world from space.

30 years ago today, the United States achieved a manned return to space with the first flight of Columbia (1981-2003).