I SAID STOP WITH THE DYING ALREADY!

Now it's the Grandest Old Fan of them all, Forrest J. Ackerman. "Forry" was perhaps the living SOUL of fandom for years. There is, as far as I know, no one even vaguely like him available to "take his place", if such a thing was possible, which it really isn't.

I wish I could have met him once. But once more one of the greats is gone.

Where's my bloody immortality serum?!

WTF? FBI?

This afternoon, SOMETHING happened right here in my neighborhood. Police ... and one huge buttload of FBI cars -- a dozen, more -- covering this entire block, according to Kathleen (and the police officer she was talking to). None of the news agencies have ANYTHING on it; when I called Capital News 9, they knew that SOMETHING was happening, but apparently whatever they overheard told them nothing. TV 10 didn't even know it was happening until I called them.

Very curious.