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Three interconnected events separated by decades.

The first was when I was 9. I was sick with pneumonia and my mom brought me a book to read, Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke. I was hooked and never looked back in my reading.

The second was shortly after I had moved to St. Louis. I was in a record store looking for spoken word SF material. I struck up a conversation with a clerk and discovered there was an SF group in town and something called a Con in the area. FIAWOL, indeed!

The third was making the trip from St. Louis to attend Boskone three years ago. I met the lady I had been corresponding with online for dinner. Now, after moving to New England, we are buying a house and getting married.

Thanks, Sir Arthur!

Hmm. I have vivid memories of the Army-McCarthy hearings. Much vaguer ones of the Kefauver hearing on organized crime in '51. What stuck with me was the name: I thought Kefauver sounded neat. Somewhere in there is the memory of my dad getting all heated up about Adlai Stevenson losing to Eisenhower. Twice.

Go to Crooks and Liars and you can see a video feed from MSNBC in either Quicktime or WMP of the Michael Brown "dinner memo":
Quicktime version

WMV version

What idiots!

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