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This is a little creepy **UPDATE**
The creepiness ends. The fake Irving Klaw MySpace page is no more!
This is a little creepy **UPDATE** was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon
This is a little creepy
While doing some research on my grandfather, I ran across his MySpace page! The fact that Irving Klaw has been dead for some 41 years would seem to make this impossible.
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| [Irving Klaw’s] death remains the stuff of family legend.
Labor Day weekend, 1966: A 55-year-old Irving Klaw awoke with pain on the right side of his abdomen. A family friend, a doctor, diagnosed him with appendicitis. Since the ailment was in its early stages, the physician told Irving not to panic, but suggested he pack a bag and check into the hospital. Stubborn to the last, Irving decided to go to work. Later that day, he was found dead from peritonitis. At least according to my mother. My cousin Ira Kramer, son of Irving’s sister Paula Klaw, tells a different story. Irving, who had been under treatment for an ulcer, visited the same family friend, who told him to just take some antacids and not to worry. Later that day, he was discovered dead from peritonitis. His son Arth has another theory: He believes Irving woke up with the pain, took some antacids, and went to work. Irving Klaw hated doctors. (Reprinted from my article "The Notorious Irving Klaw", The Austin Chronicle March 10, 2006) |
If it all wasn’t strange enough, I ran across this:
On one level, this is all very flattering but on another it is just creepy.
This is a little creepy
While doing some research on my grandfather, I ran across his MySpace page! The fact that Irving Klaw has been dead for some 41 years would seem to make this impossible.
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| [Irving Klaw’s] death remains the stuff of family legend.
Labor Day weekend, 1966: A 55-year-old Irving Klaw awoke with pain on the right side of his abdomen. A family friend, a doctor, diagnosed him with appendicitis. Since the ailment was in its early stages, the physician told Irving not to panic, but suggested he pack a bag and check into the hospital. Stubborn to the last, Irving decided to go to work. Later that day, he was found dead from peritonitis. At least according to my mother. My cousin Ira Kramer, son of Irving’s sister Paula Klaw, tells a different story. Irving, who had been under treatment for an ulcer, visited the same family friend, who told him to just take some antacids and not to worry. Later that day, he was discovered dead from peritonitis. His son Arth has another theory: He believes Irving woke up with the pain, took some antacids, and went to work. Irving Klaw hated doctors. (Reprinted from my article “The Notorious Irving Klaw”, The Austin Chronicle March 10, 2006) |
If it all wasn’t strange enough, I ran across this:
On one level, this is all very flattering but on another it is just creepy.
This is a little creepy was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon
New Weird contest…
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, editors extraordinare, have announced a contest to promote their new anthology, The New Weird.
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| Tell us your “new, weird” story–something strange (but entertaining and either PG-rated or with the naughty bits blocked out) that happened to you or you witnessed in the last couple of years. Hopefully some of these will be bizarre but also uplifting, although that’s not a requirement. It’s more about…hey, this world we live in is an odder place than we might think. All of those stories in The New Weird from China Mieville, Clive Barker, K.J. Bishop, Steph Swainston, Jeffrey Ford, Jay Lake, Pual Di Filippo, Michael Moorcock, M. John Harrison, and others–they’re not strange; the world is strange! |
And the prize is pretty damn cool…
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| The three winners, chosen by Ann and me, will win ONE COPY OF EACH ANTHOLOGY WE EDIT BETWEEN NOW AND 2010, PERSONALIZED. Yes, that’s correct. You will get a copy of The New Weird, Steampunk, The Leonardo Variations (Clarion charity anthology), Fast Ships/Black Sails (pirates), Best American Fantasy 2, Best Horror 2009, Last Drink Bird Head, Mapping the Beast: The Best of Leviathan, and various other anthologies currently in the planning stages. Heck, we’ll even throw in the first couple issue of Weird Tales with Ann as fiction editor. We also reserve the right to give out honorable mentions, said HMs to receive a copy of the NW antho. |
For official rules, visit Ecstatic Days.
New Weird contest…
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, editors extraordinare, have announced a contest to promote their new anthology, The New Weird.
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| Tell us your “new, weird” story–something strange (but entertaining and either PG-rated or with the naughty bits blocked out) that happened to you or you witnessed in the last couple of years. Hopefully some of these will be bizarre but also uplifting, although that’s not a requirement. It’s more about…hey, this world we live in is an odder place than we might think. All of those stories in The New Weird from China Mieville, Clive Barker, K.J. Bishop, Steph Swainston, Jeffrey Ford, Jay Lake, Pual Di Filippo, Michael Moorcock, M. John Harrison, and others–they’re not strange; the world is strange! |
And the prize is pretty damn cool…
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| The three winners, chosen by Ann and me, will win ONE COPY OF EACH ANTHOLOGY WE EDIT BETWEEN NOW AND 2010, PERSONALIZED. Yes, that’s correct. You will get a copy of The New Weird, Steampunk, The Leonardo Variations (Clarion charity anthology), Fast Ships/Black Sails (pirates), Best American Fantasy 2, Best Horror 2009, Last Drink Bird Head, Mapping the Beast: The Best of Leviathan, and various other anthologies currently in the planning stages. Heck, we’ll even throw in the first couple issue of Weird Tales with Ann as fiction editor. We also reserve the right to give out honorable mentions, said HMs to receive a copy of the NW antho. |
For official rules, visit Ecstatic Days.
New Weird contest… was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon
Jan. 2, 1860:
This fascinating science history tidbit is courtesy of Wired.
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1860: French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier announces the discovery of Vulcan, a planet orbiting between Mercury and the sun, to members of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. Continued… |
Wonder if the proposed Vulcan surface would have looked anything like this?
Surface of Vulcan from "Amok Time"
Jan. 2, 1860:
This fascinating science history tidbit is courtesy of Wired.
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1860: French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier announces the discovery of Vulcan, a planet orbiting between Mercury and the sun, to members of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. Continued… |
Wonder if the proposed Vulcan surface would have looked anything like this?
Surface of Vulcan from “Amok Time”
Jan. 2, 1860: was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon
When Science Reality Meets Science Fiction
Perhaps PKD, Michael Moorcock, and DC Comics were all right…
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| Stranger that fiction: parallel universes beguile science
by Annie Hautefeuille Sun Dec 30, 5:58 PM ET PARIS (AFP) – Is the universe — correction: "our" universe — no more than a speck of cosmic dust amid an infinite number of parallel worlds? |
…at the very least in some alternate universe.
When Science Reality Meets Science Fiction
Perhaps PKD, Michael Moorcock, and DC Comics were all right…
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| Stranger that fiction: parallel universes beguile science
by Annie Hautefeuille Sun Dec 30, 5:58 PM ET PARIS (AFP) – Is the universe — correction: “our” universe — no more than a speck of cosmic dust amid an infinite number of parallel worlds? |
…at the very least in some alternate universe.
When Science Reality Meets Science Fiction was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon