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Saturday morning a half-dozen of us Arizona Fans of Bronze gathered at a local burger restaurant for one of our \u201cDoc Days.\u201d<\/p>\nI was reminded again this past weekend how pulp fandom is the people, not just the pulps.<\/p>\n
Saturday morning a half-dozen of us Arizona Fans of Bronze gathered at a local burger restaurant for one of our \u201cDoc Days.\u201d<\/p>\n
We use planning for the next Doc Con as an excuse to get together for a Doc Day (which is really just a couple of hours or so). We do talk about the upcoming con, but we also catch up on what’s going on in the world of Doc Savage and the pulps, and more importantly, what’s going on in each other’s lives.<\/p>\n
Yes, we never get together as often as we should. But our Doc Days have always given us a chance to reconnect every few months.<\/p>\n
Sadly for me, this past Doc Day will be my last for a while. Our family is getting ready for a move back to Florida, which will make it hard to attend the irregular get-togethers in the Phoenix area.<\/p>\n
It’s really been fun living so near such a great group of pulp fans. There have been the core of the group, others who come when they can, and those who’ve drifted away \u2014 Rob Smalley<\/strong>, Jay Ryan<\/strong>, Courtney Rogers<\/strong>, Phil Matthews<\/strong>, Kevin Dumcum<\/strong>, Curt Elam<\/strong>, Lew Corlew<\/strong>, Steve Ringgenberg<\/strong>, J.R. Burgin<\/strong>, Paul Cook<\/strong> and Fred Forino<\/strong>. (And that’s not mentioning the folks from out of state who’ve joined us for the annual Doc Con.)<\/p>\n As much fun as it is to read stories from the pulps or admire their vivid covers, the friends who are drawn together by their love of the pulps are the real treasures. I’m going to miss my fellow Arizona Fans of Bronze.<\/p>\n Rob, who is one of Doc Con’s co-founders, says that the Arizona Doc Con was never intended to be The<\/em> Doc Con. But rather, it was to be the model for other fans to look to when starting their own gatherings. He has always envisioned Doc Cons scattered around the country (and probably the world).<\/p>\n I can’t take the Arizona gang along to Tallahassee, but I can take Rob’s vision.<\/p>\n If you live in Florida (or in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, etc.) would you be interested in getting together with other pulp fans?<\/p>\n We could set up a traveling pulp collectors’ group that meets in various towns and cities in the area. All we need to do is find a place \u2014 a restaurant, a bookstore or library meeting room, a coffee shop \u2014 where we could meet for an hour or two. Once I get settled in Tallahassee, I will be looking for such a place. And you’ll be hearing more about it here, at Yellowed Perils<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n