A little something from the Sunday Edition of the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.latimes.com/enterta...ec13,0,1481022.story

Hey - a recent photo. It's nice to live vicariously through jkt.

He's got new glasses (and the same medal). I like the look.

Happy Christmas from the Tinkerbells!

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It's nice to live vicariously through jkt.

Very much missing jkt's posts.

Hope he's having a good time.

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Originally posted by Linnl:

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It's nice to live vicariously through jkt.

Very much missing jkt's posts.

Hope he's having a good time.

He's fine. We speak regularly and I still get all the news that's fit to know thru my email - ha!

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
...I still get all the news that's fit to know thru my email - ha!

Me too! And I'm sure he still visits here.

Here is a recent and truly stricking photo of Ray. This was the one used in the recent L.A. Times article.

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This is all I can say for now but if you don't live in L.A. plan to be here on February 20th. I suggest you book a train, plane or automobile for what portents to be a spectacular day...a once in a lifetime event.

For those of you ever wondering what Ray's signature looked like in the early days of his long and everlasting literary career here is a good sample from 1948.

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Ray must have had more time in 1948 - his signature since then has become somewhat abstracted from the original design!

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Originally posted by philnic:
Ray must have had more time in 1948 - his signature since then has become somewhat abstracted from the original design!

He gets a lot more requests now.

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Originally posted by dandelion:

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Originally posted by philnic:
Ray must have had more time in 1948 - his signature since then has become somewhat abstracted from the original design!

He gets a lot more requests now.

I've been witness to hundreds at one sitting. My hand cramps up in sympathy after the first hour. In 1948 Dark Carnival had not been out for a year yet. Whatever happened to those dated stories?

The Homecoming"
"Skeleton"
"The Jar"
"The Lake"
"The Maiden"
"The Tombstone"
"The Smiling People"
"The Emissary"
"The Traveler"
"The Small Assassin"
"The Crowd"
"Reunion"
"The Handler"
"The Coffin"
"Interim"
"Jack-In-The-Box"
"The Scythe"
"Let's Play 'Poison'"
"Uncle Einar"
"The Wind"
"The Night"
"There Was An Old Woman"
"The Dead Man"
"The Man Upstairs"
"The Night Sets"
"Cistern"
"The Next In Line

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Originally posted by jkt:
This is all I can say for now but if you don't live in L.A. plan to be here on February 20th. I suggest you book a train, plane or automobile for what portents to be a spectacular day...a once in a lifetime event.

Why, I wonder what all this can be about!

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Originally posted by philnic:
...his signature since then has become somewhat abstracted from the original design!

He does "all caps" now.