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Name: Tom Galloway
Source: unca20081110.htm
"would you be any relation to the "Mr. Walker" who makes his home in a Skull Cave?"

You forgot the obligatory asterisk next to "Walker*".

"* For the Ghost Who Walks"

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Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20081110.htm While his political state of origin was Tennessee, his natal state of origin was North Carolina, near Charlotte. Got taken to his birthplace during my elementary school days. And yep, I'd've been able to say much the same amount of info about him as Willi...

Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20081110.htm Harlan, condolences on Brian's passing. With respect to, well, respecting comics, you may not have heard that Chris Barkley put in a proposal at this year's Worldcon to have a Best Graphic Story Hugo. It passed the business meeting, so per the standard bi...

Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20080913.htm Yep, it's an amazing program. I had the good fortune to work on the team doing it until I left Google last year, and something I made a point of doing on the way out was to wrangle a permanent invite for myself to future talks. In fact, just saw Daniel (P...

Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20080913.htm A week or so ago, Lori Koonze posted; "I'm about as goy as they come. I don't think I'd know a good jewish deli if it bit me on the ass and then introduced itself. So, please; in the interest of gormand everywhere, give us some guidance in this area." Whi...

Name: Tom Galloway
Source: unca20080731.htm
The person in question looks to be around here in early August. I'll see what I can do.

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Name: Tom Galloway
Source: unca20080731.htm
Harlan, will call tomorrow (Tuesday) so as not to interrupt your evening.

KOS, I'll be at Westercon, and should be fairly easy to find as I'm on about six program items, including being first chair in both instances of "Match Game SF".

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Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20080731.htm People hereabouts may be acquainted with the Marvel Comics character Dazzler, who was created by committee and Casablanca Records back at the end of the disco craze to try to take advantage of same. The excellent web column Comic Book Urban Legends Reveal...

Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20080731.htm Harlan, EBay's notorious in Silicon Valley for bad customer service, and in fact for making a fair effort not to even be reachable for such save for ignorable email if that. Alex, congratulations, and the way not to go into crushing debt is not to fall fo...

Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20071217.htm Why I would like one of the Lovecraft inspired lithos; So I can own a piece of Lovecraft inspired art that doesn't have me about to be eaten by Cthulhu. See http://www.frankwu.com/cthulhu.html (Coming back from a Worldcon programming meeting, Frank asked ...

Name: Tom Galloway
Source: unca20071217.htm
Sympathies on the Indians' loss Harlan. Against any other team I would've been rooting for 'em too.

(Well aware that probably every non-Red Sox fan will be rooting for the Cinderella Rockies in the Series)

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Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20071217.htm Alex, my apologies. I've occasionally rounded number of years in that area up or down to the nearest 5 or 0 as it seems to make clearer the extent of time to the reader/listener. So if I'd been doing something for, say, 28-32 years, unless accuracy was im...

Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20071217.htm Quick question; would anyone be able to recommend a literary agent, specifically one knowledgeable about non-fiction and optimally business type books? Short version is that I'm leaving my excellent employer Friday (my choice, nothing bad about it on eith...

Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20071217.htm As the cry "Two Thousand" towards the Yankees remains valid for another year...and now "Greatest. Choke. Ever." is valid for both New York teams. Sorry Harlan, know it's been a while for the Tribe, but I've still gotta root for the Red Sox. Even with 2004...

Name: Tom Galloway Source: unca20071007.htm Harlan, given your serial has been a long running item in it and your friendship with Lee Hoffman, figured you might be interested that SF Five-Yearly won this year's Best Fanzine Hugo. (And just to kvell a bit, I somehow ended up presenting the Best Fan ...