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wren08Ken Moore, a grand old man in the science fiction community, died June 30. I can't believe that the news took this long to get to me! Ken is someone I have known all my life and, while I haven't seen him in years, I am very very sorry that I'll never be able to see him again. I missed the wake and the funeral... so I'm going to go ahead and tell a story about him that I would have told at his wake, over Swill, of course.
When I was very small, my entire family went to science fiction conventions with my Dad. Ken was one of the movers and shakers in Nashville fandom and was always after Dad to write a sequel to his book "Twice Upon A Time". He also was the organizer of Kubla Khans in Nashville and at the third one (I think) the hotel made a mistake and served us stone cold mashed potatoes. A year or two later, Dad arranged it with the hotel of that year to serve Ken a dish of stone cold mashed potatoes with his dinner in front of everybody at the banquet. It became a running joke between the two of them and an amusement for the whole of Nashville fandom.
I am probably the only one who remembers the mashed potato story... so I tell it to you all so that it may be remembered and not lost.
RIP both of you... I hope you're having Swill together right now!
When I was very small, my entire family went to science fiction conventions with my Dad. Ken was one of the movers and shakers in Nashville fandom and was always after Dad to write a sequel to his book "Twice Upon A Time". He also was the organizer of Kubla Khans in Nashville and at the third one (I think) the hotel made a mistake and served us stone cold mashed potatoes. A year or two later, Dad arranged it with the hotel of that year to serve Ken a dish of stone cold mashed potatoes with his dinner in front of everybody at the banquet. It became a running joke between the two of them and an amusement for the whole of Nashville fandom.
I am probably the only one who remembers the mashed potato story... so I tell it to you all so that it may be remembered and not lost.
RIP both of you... I hope you're having Swill together right now!
