CALVINISM 1982

FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON in Spanish for a friend

PAUL DALE ANDERSON RIP OLD CHUM

Paul died last night around 7:30PM.  I would have been walking home around then, it had stopped raining and it wasn't that cold out at all. I knew Paul longer than I did most writers in the area, because I first met him when he and his late wife Gretta were editing and publishing 2AM, which I've always considered to be the best small press magazine to have been published in. So we're talking 1985, 1986 here. I'm still living in Rogers Park. Paul published "Bleeding Between The Lines" (which was illustrated by Douglas C. Klauba) and was the last part of the Dennis Cassady trilogy. Paul had read both "Rapid Transit" and "Take The 'A' Train" when they were reprinted in YEAR'S BEST HORROR over two respective years and was willing to look at the third piece.

Three years ago, he did a reading at UIC, part of Bad Grammar Theater, and I had the pleasure to meet Elizabeth Aisling Flygare, who was with Paul at the end, at his home in Rockford. They had met at the Rockford Library, surrounded by books. If you were in Paul's house, you were surrounded by books.

He also wrote many novels, the first was CLAW HAMMER, and I lost my unsigned paperback copy from the 80s  to someone who borrowed it and lost it. Thankfully, he had found a home with Crossroad Press and they have a whole stack of his work in their catalogue.The one pictured was signed to me by Paul last year before we headed to St. Paul with Roger Trexler, the designated driver since it was his car, for Arcana 47. We were able to meet William F. Nolan, who is best known for LOGAN'S RUN, but we were all glad to see artist and actor Rodger Gerberding again. That's him holding up his beard soon after we first arrived. Within an hour we would be watching Jack Palance in his only role as Dracula. Roger, by the way, published FIENDS BY TORCHLIGHT and I CAN'T COME CLEAN.

I'll miss you Paul. A lot of people are talking about you right now. Know peace.

MURDER IN BELLAIR: THE TOWN THAT HATED UIC STUDENTS!

 

I've talked about this place. Where I starved during the summer of 1982. The Night of The Hungry Dog. Well, I'm a bit late to the party to find this out, but beautiful Bellair pop. 54 when I was there and pop. 46 now, actually 45, because unless they got the math wrong (highly possible), the woman in the news heading above was killed by a daughter she had when she was 12 years old. I'm going to add more photos and the story tomorrow.

THE SEPTEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING YEAR...

I was doing a reading at UIC as part of Brendan Detzner's BAD GRAMMAR THEATER, it was the middle of the month because Labor Day weekend throws everybody off. It had rained earlier in the evening and so there was fog. I walked from Halsted to State, over the Amtrak trains underneath Roosevelt Road. So this is my Thinking of Dad photo for the year.

Bad Grammar Theater at Powell's Bookstore at UIC c/o Paul Dale Anderson and his wife Elizabeth

BAD GRAMMAR THEATER: MAY 2015

 Here's a photo taken during my reading at Bad Grammar Theater, hosted by Brendan Detzner, last month. I read half of my novella "Days of Fiction Past", as yet unpublished. I'm always able to get some great shots of UIC and the skyline. My shirt was from the Salvation Army and I wasn't even aware that it was for a benefit for prostate cancer and that the Willis Tower was lit up in prostate cancer teal. It was a full moon, so here are two shots I took on my bus ride home.