What's the geekiest thing you've ever done? [View all]
Here are some of my highlights--compiling an entire set of *Unknown Worlds*, the legendary pulp magazine, when I was younger, and you could still buy old pulps. Compiling a complete set of *Galaxy* magazine. Getting a baseball, once signed by Ruth and Gehrig, and adding DiMaggio's, Mantle's, Maris', Reggie's, and Mattingly's signatures to it. Attempting--and not quite succeeding--in compiling a full set of Blue Note jazz albums from the 50s and 60s. Having Cary Grant, Kate Hepburn, and Howard Hawks autograph an original poster of *Bringing Up Baby*. Spending months in a study, examining *every* interleague baseball trade from 1901 to 2010 and seeing which player got better and which declined, in order to find out if you could tell which league was stronger than the other over that time. (Actually, you could.) Writing a 450,000(!) word X-Men fan novel. And, currently, writing an Ellery Queen novel--perhaps the quintessence of geekdom, considering that Ellery is *not* particularly a cult favorite these days. OK--that's how I've wasted my life. Can anyone match all that?
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