A year ago I was in the first week of chemo and radiation treatments. They delayed the ablation for my persistent and asymptomatic, 24/7 AFib, thereby increasing the risk that it would become incurably chronic.
Today, thanks to Boston having the finest medical care in the world, I am greatly relieved to be free of cancer at my first three quarterly check-ups, and to know the AFib is gone.
It seems every day there’s another music death. Now it’s George Kooymans of Golden Earring.
The picture on Golden Earring’s album Cut was taken by MIT Professor “Doc” Edgerton. He was the “E” in EG&G, the company that provided the startup venture capital for my employer of 36 years.
Trunp is infuriating as always and we don’t yet know what’s coming up next for Colbert. So let’s check in with somebody who also lost a TV series. It’s good, ol’ Joe Pera, from the tail end of the second comedy boom.
I was fifteen when my friend Kathei Logue told me how, a mere seven years before then, she had met the Beatles.
You’ve read the blog post, now see the movie! 😉
As someone who is disinclined to follow major league sports, I rely on friends to tell me what’s what. If my buddy Bismo hadn’t clued me into the Savannah Bananas two years ago, I wouldn’t have known about this wacky baseball-ish team until last Friday’s PBS Newshour.
Out of nowhere on Monday, it was announced that comic book writer/editor/publisher Jim Shooter had died.
On May 7, Shooter’s summer convention schedule was posted on Facebook…
Jim will be appearing at the following shows!
Big Lick Comic Con – NOVA – May 31-June 1
Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find – June 20-22
GalaxyCon Raleigh – July 24-27
Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of FarleyCon Pop Culture & Comic Book Expo! – August 2-3
TerrifiCon ™ – Connecticut’s Terrific Comic Con at Mohegan Sun – August 8-10
Dragon Con – August 28-31
See you there!
… but after missing a couple of those dates, this appeared on June 18.
Shooter had said nothing that I’d seen about him battling cancer, and considering his optimistic convention schedule I have to assume his condition must have declined very rapidly. I waited to post something about his death until the NYTimes had an obit. It’s shared here paywall-free.
I met Shooter only once, at a Terrificon in Connecticut. Joe Sinnott was going to be on a panel when we heard one of the other panelists was a no-show. I forget who it was, but he was a writer. I’d chatted with Shooter earlier that day, and when I heard of the vacancy I asked him if he would be willing to fill in. I told Jim that Joe would be there, he immediately agreed, and he was great.
