While I was out in LA, Harlan and Susan Ellison decided to have a party and invite a whole bunch of folks, ostensibly so it would take care of everyone who wanted to visit for the next six months. Quite an assortment of folks there, ranging from comic book luminaries such as Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, Colleen Doran and Jim Valentino, to Walter Koenig and a guy who looked a lot like Ed Asner probably because he actually was Ed Asner. It was a gloriously wild time, particularly when Ellison and Asner were trading barbs with delirious ferocity. I actually spent about fifteen minutes chatting with Asner. A short time later, I confessed to several other comic folks that I was fanboy enough to keep thinking, “I’m at a party with Ed Asner! How cool is that?” And immediately their heads bobbed in unison; they were thinking the same thing. So I felt slightly less geeky.
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