{"id":35865,"date":"2024-10-28T21:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T01:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=35865"},"modified":"2024-10-28T22:42:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T02:42:18","slug":"why-not-episode-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/28\/why-not-episode-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Say What Happened? Episode 5: My Rooftop Dance with Larry Lieber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join me as I demonstrate the limits of my memory by telling tales of why my first Worldcon was supposed to have been my second Worldcon, the question I never got around to asking my cousin, the actor Herb Edelman, which song I sang while dancing across a Manhattan rooftop with Larry Lieber, what <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> moment motivated the first letter I ever wrote to a comic book company, the string of serendipities which led to one of my DC horror stories being adapted as an episode of <em>Tales from the Darkside<\/em>, how the Washington Post got me a job editing <em>Science Fiction Age<\/em> magazine, and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/33656132\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And to illustrate a few of the topics touched on during this episode &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>My membership card in the Merry Marvel Marching Society<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MyMMMSCard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MyMMMSCard-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MyMMMSCard-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MyMMMSCard-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MyMMMSCard.jpg 1196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>My appearance in <em>Tales of Suspense<\/em> #69 (September 1965)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MyMMMSMembershipTalesofSuspense.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MyMMMSMembershipTalesofSuspense-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MyMMMSMembershipTalesofSuspense-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MyMMMSMembershipTalesofSuspense-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MyMMMSMembershipTalesofSuspense-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MyMMMSMembershipTalesofSuspense.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Carl Gafford, Paul Levitz, Steve Gilary, and me during the 1974 D.C. Worldcon <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1974Worldcon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1974Worldcon-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1974Worldcon-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1974Worldcon-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1974Worldcon.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And head <a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/1775481331\">here<\/a> if you&#8217;re in the mood to subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join me as I demonstrate the limits of my memory by telling tales of why my first Worldcon was supposed to have been my second Worldcon, the question I never got around to asking my cousin, the actor Herb Edelman, which song I sang while dancing across a Manhattan rooftop with Larry Lieber, what Fantastic [&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":[397,455,1018],"class_list":["post-35865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-herb-edelman","tag-larry-lieber","tag-why-not-say-what-happened"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865","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=35865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35874,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865\/revisions\/35874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}