| Roseangelo |
06-06-2012 10:05 PM |
This is what I wrote on Facebook after hearing the news this morning:
Ray Bradbury made his first impression on me sometime during high school when we were given the short story "And There Will Be Soft Rains" (part of "The Martian Chronicles") to read. He came to my college to speak once, but it overlapped with my German class, and missing one of those classes would leave a person lost and confused, so after class I hauled butt across campus, caught the end of his talk, and waited in a long-ass line for his autograph (for which I was late for work).
More recently he was a regular guest at Comic-Con, and his panel was always the one I put on my list to go to but I never did because I ended up busy with something somewhere else (his panel was always on Saturday, the busiest day of the Con). However, a few years ago, I was upstairs in the hall next to the Sails Pavilion when I heard someone shouting. As the shouting came nearer, people were moving to the sides of the hall. "Make way for Ray Bradbury! Make way for Ray Bradbury!" the voice was shouting. And as the sea of people parted, along came a man pushing Ray Bradbury to whatever his destination was in a wheelchair. And as they passed through, the entire hall burst into applause.
RIP Ray Bradbury. Thank you for being amazing.
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