(I was at the Miami Worldcon.)
Really? I bet your Mom didn't bring you though. I do remember lots of Whelan art on display that year. That would've been his heydey, wouldn't it?
says 1976
I think the Miami Worldcon was in 1977.
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
(I was at the Miami Worldcon.)
Really? I bet your Mom didn't bring you though. I do remember lots of Whelan art on display that year. That would've been his heydey, wouldn't it?
says 1976
I think the Miami Worldcon was in 1977.
Huh, look it's a History of British Fandom. Is there an American equivalent?
No, I definitely didn't come to fandom through my parents. I was 22 and married, and we drove down from Atlanta. I would have spent my days in the dealers' room selling Heritage Press limited edition prints.
I was 22 and married, and we drove down from Atlanta.
Bet that feels like a lifetime ago, now huh? Which is not a comment on age, but just the different directions your life took from what you probably expected at that time.
Bet that feels like a lifetime ago, now huh?
It feels like several lifetimes. Heritage Press went under and then my marriage did, and fandom was too much of a reminder of both. I think most people have to completely remake their lives a couple of times, though.
I think most people have to completely remake their lives a couple of times, though.
Yeah. My penguin dairy farm didn't turn out so well.
Twice now, and I'm only 28. I've probably got at least 2 more left in me.
My penguin dairy farm didn't turn out so well.
Their milk makes terrible cheese?
Their milk makes terrible cheese?
Well, it's more that it's difficult to make penguin cheese with a complete lack of penguin milk.
Isn't penguin "milk" semi-digested fish bits that they puke back up into the chick's beaks? I can see how that might not go over so well with the grocery-buying public. Well, unless one hit the jackpot with a fad diet craze in southern California.