Bill Bodden's Blog - Posts Tagged "fandom"
New Blog Post: Day of the Dead Musings
Two fannish acquaintances of mine passed away recently. By Fannish, I mean people who are part of the science fiction fandom community.
I first met Fred Duarte at an Armadillocon back in the late 1980s. Later, when I moved to Austin, Texas in 1993, he and his wife Karen Meschke were two of the people who looked out for me a little. Fred, Willie Sirois and I went to a Houston Astros baseball game in Fred's land-barge, (the Mets won that day, if I remember correctly) and we had a fun time. Later still, after things went poorly at the job I'd moved there to accept, Fred helped celebrate my birthday with me by driving to the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame . They have an impressive collection of memorabilia there, no less for the fact that Texas has an impressive roster of players who made it to the Big Leagues including one of the favorite players of my youth, Cecil Cooper.
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I first met Fred Duarte at an Armadillocon back in the late 1980s. Later, when I moved to Austin, Texas in 1993, he and his wife Karen Meschke were two of the people who looked out for me a little. Fred, Willie Sirois and I went to a Houston Astros baseball game in Fred's land-barge, (the Mets won that day, if I remember correctly) and we had a fun time. Later still, after things went poorly at the job I'd moved there to accept, Fred helped celebrate my birthday with me by driving to the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame . They have an impressive collection of memorabilia there, no less for the fact that Texas has an impressive roster of players who made it to the Big Leagues including one of the favorite players of my youth, Cecil Cooper.
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The Nobody Brigade
An acquaintance of mine from sci-fi fandom recently posted what I term a rant on Facebook. She was responding to a blog post by an author I respect, Theodora Goss, about how Ms. Goss is re-evaluating how she spends her time. The main sticking point was conventions: Ms. Goss describes how many conventions don't routinely pay authors to attend. It's unclear whether she's referring to invited guests or merely people who attend and participate in programming. That was only a small part of the blog post, but seems meant to emphasize that Ms. Goss is finding it difficult to have much time to herself. She is prioritizing her time, and wanting to cut out the things with no particular gain for her, whether material or emotional.
That small bit seems to have done it. My acquaintance goes off a little, the implication being that this blog post is somewhat entitled in nature. She (my acquaintance) comes from a long tradition of...
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That small bit seems to have done it. My acquaintance goes off a little, the implication being that this blog post is somewhat entitled in nature. She (my acquaintance) comes from a long tradition of...
To read the rest of this post, please visit:
http://billbodden.com/2019/08/05/the-...
