Steve Long Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 One of the great things about this job o' mine is the cool people you get to meet. I'm standing in the booth at DunDraCon. I'm the only one there -- Darren's doing a seminar, Jason and Tina are out at lunch, and it's during a game session period so there's no customer traffic. This guy walks by. He walks past, then stops and comes back. "Hey, aren't you Steve Long?" he asks. "Yes," I say warily, afraid of being served with a summons or hit with a "you'll never guess how cool my half-drow vampire warlock character is" story. "Hi, I'm Jess Nevins." For those of you who are unfortunate enough never to have heard of Jess Nevins, he's the author of The Encyclopedia Of Fantastic Victoriana, a forthcoming equally awesome sequel called The Encyclopedia Of Pulp Heroes, and a series of guides explaining in detail all the cool references in Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics. In short, he's one of the few people who have a job I envy. I've corresponded with him a time or two, but never gotten to meet him. So, we spend the next ten minutes or so geeking out about each other's work, talking about other stuff we're doing, etc. Later that night he came to the Hero Party and hung out with us. He's a great guy, lots of fun to talk with, and obviously very knowledgeable about Geekiana. And today he sent me a PDF of the text for The Encyclopedia Of Pulp Heroes. I truly have an awesome job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Re: Job Perks One of the great things about this job o' mine is the cool people you get to meet. I'm standing in the booth at DunDraCon. I'm the only one there -- Darren's doing a seminar, Jason and Tina are out at lunch, and it's during a game session period so there's no customer traffic. This guy walks by. He walks past, then stops and comes back. "Hey, aren't you Steve Long?" he asks. "Yes," I say warily, afraid of being served with a summons or hit with a "you'll never guess how cool my half-drow vampire warlock character is" story. "Hi, I'm Jess Nevins." For those of you who are unfortunate enough never to have heard of Jess Nevins, he's the author of The Encyclopedia Of Fantastic Victoriana, a forthcoming equally awesome sequel called The Encyclopedia Of Pulp Heroes, and a series of guides explaining in detail all the cool references in Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics. In short, he's one of the few people who have a job I envy. I've corresponded with him a time or two, but never gotten to meet him. So, we spend the next ten minutes or so geeking out about each other's work, talking about other stuff we're doing, etc. Later that night he came to the Hero Party and hung out with us. He's a great guy, lots of fun to talk with, and obviously very knowledgeable about Geekiana. And today he sent me a PDF of the text for The Encyclopedia Of Pulp Heroes. I truly have an awesome job. Word... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narratio Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Re: Job Perks There, but for small differences in age, education, passport and life style... go I. You are a lucky, lucky b'tard Steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Mackinder Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Re: Job Perks Tough job, but someone's gotta do it. Seriously, given how a few "fans" can be, it has to be nice when this sort of thing happens instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted March 1, 2009 Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 Re: Job Perks The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana by Jess Nevins http://www.amazon.ca/Encyclopedia-Fantastic-Victoriana-Jess-Nevins/dp/1932265155 The Sexton Blake Page by Jess Nevins http://www.geocities.com/jessnevins/blake.html Jess Nevins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Nevins Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes <<>> Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes <<>> Hmmm... QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordGhee Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Re: Job Perks I would give you rep, But I hate you really a lot Lord Ghee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Re: Job Perks Whom do you hate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narratio Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Re: Job Perks Not aimed at you Q-man, Ghee's just tetched that he doesn't get a chance to meet all the cool guys. And I can see why. Closest I got to cool was Steve Jackson signing a friends 'con brochure some two decades back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theron Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Re: Job Perks Did I ever mention that Jess used to be in my gaming group when he lived in Texas? Great guy, we miss him a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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