GOING ON INDEFINITE HIATUS
Hey, my friends. I started the first Retro-Scans (which is still up) in April 2008. Even before that, I had been writing hundreds of pulp reviews on Usenet (remember Usenet?). When all the space allotted by LiveJournal was filled, this More Retro-Scans took over to carry on. It has been a huge amount of fun but, you know, when a hobby starts to become a chore, it's time to give it a rest. Retro-Scans has thousands of reviews and commentaries and annotations and what not archived here already. There are other activities I want to try while I still can.
Thanks again for all the comments and conversation. I will always be touched and grateful by all the support I received from you guys a few years ago when I spent a week in ICU and couldn't go online for a month after that. Your concern meant a lot to me then and I will always remember it.
Retro-Scans will stay up forever as far as I have anything to say about it. And, inevitably, I will start getting ideas for new topics and reviews and general tomfoolery, and the whole thing will start up again. So I will then send out messages to you all and hope you come back.
As our Lajka reminds us each year, yell out "Merry Christmas" loud and clear to those you love. Give them big hard hugs and tell them how much they mean to you. None of us have forever and we have to be good to each other.
---Doc
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UPDATE APRIL 30 2022!
Ack. It's been seven years since Retro-Scans closed up. How did that happen? A big HI to anyone who might wander by here. I am alive and well, still swimming upstream and still trying to figure life out.
My creative energies, such as they are, have been going into writing hundreds of pulp-inspired stories featuring my own invented mythos and a huge cast of characters,. These Midnight War tales are posted here:https://olddochermes2.livejournal.com/
To be honest, I don't feel like I have any more reviews to write or goofy esoterica to explore here. That's all been covered. For those of you who remember our own little Lajka Anne Rasmussen, rest happy in the knowledge she is still fifteen, still getting into trouble more often than getting out of it and she is still best friends with Murky and the large clan of gorgeous but demented Rasmussen women.
Skimming over this site recently, I do miss so many of you. Your friendly and informative comments made even a dismal day brighten up, Thanks again! You are not forgotten
Thanks again for all the comments and conversation. I will always be touched and grateful by all the support I received from you guys a few years ago when I spent a week in ICU and couldn't go online for a month after that. Your concern meant a lot to me then and I will always remember it.
Retro-Scans will stay up forever as far as I have anything to say about it. And, inevitably, I will start getting ideas for new topics and reviews and general tomfoolery, and the whole thing will start up again. So I will then send out messages to you all and hope you come back.
As our Lajka reminds us each year, yell out "Merry Christmas" loud and clear to those you love. Give them big hard hugs and tell them how much they mean to you. None of us have forever and we have to be good to each other.
---Doc
___________________________
UPDATE APRIL 30 2022!
Ack. It's been seven years since Retro-Scans closed up. How did that happen? A big HI to anyone who might wander by here. I am alive and well, still swimming upstream and still trying to figure life out.
My creative energies, such as they are, have been going into writing hundreds of pulp-inspired stories featuring my own invented mythos and a huge cast of characters,. These Midnight War tales are posted here:https://olddochermes2.livejournal.com/
To be honest, I don't feel like I have any more reviews to write or goofy esoterica to explore here. That's all been covered. For those of you who remember our own little Lajka Anne Rasmussen, rest happy in the knowledge she is still fifteen, still getting into trouble more often than getting out of it and she is still best friends with Murky and the large clan of gorgeous but demented Rasmussen women.
Skimming over this site recently, I do miss so many of you. Your friendly and informative comments made even a dismal day brighten up, Thanks again! You are not forgotten