{"id":35738,"date":"2024-10-07T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T14:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=35738"},"modified":"2024-10-07T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T14:02:46","slug":"why-not-say-what-happened-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/07\/why-not-say-what-happened-episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Say What Happened?: Episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a second episode of <em>Why Not Say What Happened?<\/em>, and this time around, my upcoming Guest of Honor appearance at next year&#8217;s StokerCon causes me ramble about the night in 2004 Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, George Saunders, and I were all up in the same Bram Stoker Awards category (and all lost), how I used my cousin Herb Edelman to break the ice when chatting with Hollywood stars such as John Astin and Jeff Bridges, why I dragged a fan kicking and screaming from a 1975 comic book convention (which I mistakenly refer to as 1976) while wearing face makeup painted on me by Jim Starlin, and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/33353337\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Plus I explain the meaning of these two photos from the 1976 Comic Art Convention!<\/p>\n<p>The first one&#8217;s me. But you can tell that by now, even with the intervening 48 years, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ScottEdelmanStarlinMakeUp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ScottEdelmanStarlinMakeUp-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ScottEdelmanStarlinMakeUp-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ScottEdelmanStarlinMakeUp-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ScottEdelmanStarlinMakeUp.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the second features Bernie Wrightson, Howard Chaykin, Jim Starlin, Steve Gerber, and Mary Skrenes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WrightsonChaykinStarlinGerber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WrightsonChaykinStarlinGerber-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-35739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WrightsonChaykinStarlinGerber-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WrightsonChaykinStarlinGerber-1024x775.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WrightsonChaykinStarlinGerber-768x581.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WrightsonChaykinStarlinGerber-1536x1162.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to know why we&#8217;re all dressed that way,. there&#8217;s only one way to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a second episode of Why Not Say What Happened?, and this time around, my upcoming Guest of Honor appearance at next year&#8217;s StokerCon causes me ramble about the night in 2004 Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, George Saunders, and I were all up in the same Bram Stoker Awards category (and all lost), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1018],"class_list":["post-35738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-why-not-say-what-happened"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35743,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35738\/revisions\/35743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}