yes i was at the hugo awards on saturday night. a friend of mine finally won after more than ten nominations over the years. and this really is one of the best awards speeches ever. and totally for real.
http://boingboing.net/?p=114796&preview=true
wow, that's a first for me. i officially had the most requests for one song for one event that i have ever had in last few hours. and i know that the requests for this song are just going to go up
we all have our heros. and some of us are lucky enough to actually meet them. i have been lucky enough to meet one of mine some years back. some people know that i was on my way to be an astro-physicist before the djing hit. and i got to meet my hero in that world over 10 years ago. i got to meet dr. stephen hawkins (sp?) and thought i was going to have a heart attack back then.
now, i am going to not only get to meet my hero in the dj world but i am going to get to actually dj with him. in a few weeks time i am going to djing with dr. demento in reno. i have loved him since i was very little and has been one of the reasons that i did continue as a dj......
i have been talking with him off and on for the last few weeks about working out details of the show.
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You got to meet Stephen Hawkins? Wow! That would be one of the most interesting people in the entire world to have a conversation with! Him and the Dalai Lama are folk I'd love to meet :)
Enjoy the djing!
i got to talk a little with him too.
i got to do that because at the time i had a morning show on a college radio station and i was on a tirade about how the city i was living in at the time wasn't set up at all for someone in a wheel chair to get around. my brother in law was having a lot of trouble at the time just moving around the city in his motorized chair. so i was really saying something.
well, dr. hawkin's booker happened to be listening at the time and invited me the press conference that he was doing the next week.
i got dropped next to the wall street journal and discover magazine. so i sat there with my bright blue hair and my suit that was held together with chains and safety pins. i got to sit down a bit with him later on that day.
definitely cool!
This is Epic.
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