tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post7672590777317687329..comments2023-09-30T08:07:26.165-04:00Comments on Mystical Politics: People I know who were murdered: Barry Smotroff and Ben BlutsteinRebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post-47654539224230289942018-05-12T01:28:00.828-04:002018-05-12T01:28:00.828-04:00It's possible I was also in an apa with him - ...It's possible I was also in an apa with him - I don't remember. Thank you for your recollections.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post-69326057955451148182018-05-05T04:21:34.482-04:002018-05-05T04:21:34.482-04:00I remember Barry Smotroff; I am not sure I ever me...I remember Barry Smotroff; I am not sure I ever met him, but he and I were in a science fiction apa, one of the "social media" of the day, and I wrote a mailing comment to one of his fanzines. That comment may well have been written a matter of days or just a very few weeks after he died - before I heard the news. We all soon found out about the murder in a subsequent mailing of the apa - it was Mike Wood's MINNEAPA, which must have been the longest running biweekly apa of all time. There was much discussion of Barry after that in the apa but my files, though large, have not preserved the mailings. My insignificant fanzines were seen in a few of the first hundred mailings. "The past is never dead. It's not even past." - FaulknerAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17199055609769591700noreply@blogger.com