Black Mask

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My old friends of 20 or 30 years ago would have said that I have committed sacrilege by not including Max Brand. Max Brand collectors used to be all over the place at Pulpcon, collecting the pulps, binding the stories into home made books, writing articles and talking about him. In fact, if they were still alive I would not dare say anything negative about Brand. Not if I wanted to keep their friendship. They loved Max Brand and for over 50 years I’ve tried to love him also. Some of his work I like and some I hate. I now would have to say that Max Brand wrote too much and too fast and that’s going to hurt him as far as being remembered.

Modern life seems to be filled with these “computer glitches,” some more irritating and time-consuming than others. When I moved several business and personal back accounts to a small local bank in town, (after the other small banks I had dealt with had been bought up by the impersonal monsters that are more interested in marketing their investment programs than providing customer service), it seemed that the system could not handle sending my personal account statements to my home and my business statements to my business. If I changed the address on one account, it was changed on all. The branch manager did some digging, and found out that their IT department had decided that it would be convenient for customers to have their accounts “linked,” whether the customer wanted that or not. The branch manager also found a way to work around the system, and I am happily getting my paper (Luddite that I am) statements at the proper location.

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