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Marty Gear :(
Jul. 20th, 2013 02:17 amI have seen a lot of posts about Marty in the past 24 hours and while I did not know him that well, unfortunately, he was a staple I was used to seeing at conventions over the years. The nice surprise to me was seeing him at the filk conventions when NEFilk was in the Baltimore area. (I did not always get cross paths with him.)
He made an impact on a number of us in the fanish community. I know him more for his MCing masquerades at various east coast conventions and at least one Worldcon. (1998 especially, since that was my 1st worldcon) He was part of Baltimore fandom, the costumers (Master level from what I have seen mentioned), technofandom and more recently, the filk community. I last saw him @ Conterpoint 8 in June, where he was having a good time at the convention.
I have been going thru the recordings slowly just to get a chance to listen to the convention and I have found him telling at least 2 jokes that made it into the archives. I really did not want to know who was going to be Track #17 (memorial track) on the 2014 NEFilk CD this soon. He will be missed and I am hoping to include at least one of his vampire jokes in his memory on the CD. (Permission pending from his family, whom I will not attempt to contact for a while.)
He made an impact on a number of us in the fanish community. I know him more for his MCing masquerades at various east coast conventions and at least one Worldcon. (1998 especially, since that was my 1st worldcon) He was part of Baltimore fandom, the costumers (Master level from what I have seen mentioned), technofandom and more recently, the filk community. I last saw him @ Conterpoint 8 in June, where he was having a good time at the convention.
I have been going thru the recordings slowly just to get a chance to listen to the convention and I have found him telling at least 2 jokes that made it into the archives. I really did not want to know who was going to be Track #17 (memorial track) on the 2014 NEFilk CD this soon. He will be missed and I am hoping to include at least one of his vampire jokes in his memory on the CD. (Permission pending from his family, whom I will not attempt to contact for a while.)
