Comments on: Documentary about SF writer Jay Lake seeks crowdfunding http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/documentary-about-sf-writer-ja.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 04:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: ElfSternberg http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/documentary-about-sf-writer-ja.html#comment-1623758 ElfSternberg Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204730#comment-1623758 Jay is one of my heroes.  Reading his blog, the daily updates about the progress of his disease, have been heartbreaking.   But you missed the best part.  Jay's three tumors are named "Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld."  Sadly, there's also the possibility that he's got a fourth, tentatively named "Ashcroft."   Reading his fight with the disease has been more revelatory than anything else I've read in years. Jay is one of my heroes.  Reading his blog, the daily updates about the progress of his disease, have been heartbreaking.  

But you missed the best part.  Jay’s three tumors are named “Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld.”  Sadly, there’s also the possibility that he’s got a fourth, tentatively named “Ashcroft.”   Reading his fight with the disease has been more revelatory than anything else I’ve read in years.

]]> By: invictus http://boingboing.net/2013/01/09/documentary-about-sf-writer-ja.html#comment-1623740 invictus Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=204730#comment-1623740 I'll never forget the first time I got to have an involved conversation with Jay. It was Sunday morning at a Worldcon (I forget which), and we crossed paths in the lobby. We ended up joining him breakfast at the hotel restaurant, a pretty significant hit to our at the time very constrained finances (we had subsisted on free or very cheap consuite food for most of the weekend).  But Jay would hear none of it, and refused to let us split the cost, insisting that since he was in a more stable financial position, he would pick up the tab. I don't think it was a big deal for Jay. It sure isn't a big deal for me to pay for someone's meal, now that I'm more financially secure. But picking up the tab for someone you barely know? It made an impression. I've tried to "pay it forward" as much as possible since that encounter. Thank you for the life lesson, Jay. I’ll never forget the first time I got to have an involved conversation with Jay. It was Sunday morning at a Worldcon (I forget which), and we crossed paths in the lobby. We ended up joining him breakfast at the hotel restaurant, a pretty significant hit to our at the time very constrained finances (we had subsisted on free or very cheap consuite food for most of the weekend). 
But Jay would hear none of it, and refused to let us split the cost, insisting that since he was in a more stable financial position, he would pick up the tab.

I don’t think it was a big deal for Jay. It sure isn’t a big deal for me to pay for someone’s meal, now that I’m more financially secure. But picking up the tab for someone you barely know? It made an impression. I’ve tried to “pay it forward” as much as possible since that encounter.

Thank you for the life lesson, Jay.

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