Happy Father's Day

[filkertom]

To my dad, and Terry, and Dana, and Dave, and Kai, and Tom, and Mark, and Allan, and Dave, and Tom, and Chris, and Steve, and Steve, and Daniel, and Bill, and Shoebox, and to all of the rest of you. Big damn manly hugs all around.

Anyone want to wish their dads well in yet another online venue? Sound off! :)

Comments

[jss]

But if the sound's off they won't hear us.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

*SPAP* In the belly with a wet fish.

[timemachineyeah.livejournal.com]

Hello Cthulu! That's adorable.

[kengr]

Unspeakably adorable?

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Tom! (Assuming you meant me and not some other Shoebox.)

-=ShoEboX=-

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Let me say this about my dad.

You won't be surprised that more than once I've been told that I shouldn't, oughtn't, better not, and )@(%^ing well better not do something.

The one thing my dad has never told me is that I can't do something, even something as insane as dreaming of being a published writer. It's a dream I'm still working on, but a dream I still have, and a dream he understands--for among other things, my dad made a F/SF reader of me, introducing me to Del Rey and Asimov. I remember sitting in his lap, watching original series Star Trek... not reruns, first runs. I remember being taken to see 2001: A Space Odyssey in its original theatrical run (boy, you don't think that will mess with a seven-year-old's head...!) and Fantasia in its 1971 re-release.

I was molded without being squashed, guided without being blindered. I don't just love my dad. I respect him, and that's something earned. Had my little girl lived, I would be honored to be even a tenth the father to her he was to me.