[Spotlight Post] Elgin and McCullough – RIP
I was going to dedicate this post to the North Texas Comic Book Show wrap up, but some stuff happened, and I will address that first. Once more we have a Memorial Post. January 29th we found out Suzette Haden Elgin passed away. I’m sure I’ve met her at some convention, but she wasn’t the […]
[Spotlight Post] Remembering Eugie Foster and Lonnie Mitchell
What ended up being a fantastic FenCon ended with… not as much greatness. During tear down and the Dead Dog, I started catching up news feeds, then as Rand Bellavia of Ookla theMok put it… “I see sadness.” The sadness has continued into this week. I’m really tired of doing Memorial Spotlight posts. I’d started […]
[Spotlight Post] Remembering Richard Kiel
This has been a season of memorial posts. I know things come in waves, but still. This week, the Science Fiction/Fantasy world lost Graham Joyce. I don’t recall having met him, but many on my social media networks knew him, respected him, and liked him. According to the posts, Joyce lost his battle with cancer. […]
[Spotlight Post] Tom Clancy Remembered
Well, crap. This wasn’t how I planned on starting October Spotlight posts. But here we are. On Tuesday night, October 1st, Tom Clancy passed away. An Icon of military thrillers is no more, and I am saddened by this loss. He was only 66. Details were not forthcoming. My condolences to his family, friends, and […]
[Spotlight Post] Ann “AC” Crispin – Boldly Gone
Seriously, I’m getting tired of writing these posts. Good people need to stop dying already. Today we learned of Ann (A.C.) Crispin’s passing. She knew it was coming. She’s been battling cancer and earlier this week she said her farewells to the world at large. She was deteriorating. She felt her time was short, but […]
[Spotlight Post] Kidd Kraddick – Gone But Not Forgotten
So, it’s Friday. I wondered what I was going to write about this week – the John Ringo novel I’m reading, a charity that does good work? And then this morning my brain said, “No, you’re going to be one of the thousands talking about Kidd Kraddick this week.†I’m a radio brat. Most people […]
[From the Archive] The November 2009 Don Punchatz Memoiral
Last weekend my husband and I attended the memorial “Celebration” for iconic artist, Don Ivan Punchatz. I’d never had the opportunity to meet Don Punchatz even though he lived not far from us. My husband had met him once or twice and was talking about getting him to come to FenCon. However, on October 22, […]