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MurrayDelph

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11. He was DEFINITELY Right Wing
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 06:38 AM
Oct 2017

and NOT Persona non Grata because of it.

Any shunning that might have occurred would solely have been because he was prone to be first a drunk, later a dry drunk (He used to abstain from alcohol during the month of February to "prove" he wasn't an alcoholic), and an overbearing a-hole (He once called me a "son of a bitch" when I responded with his pushing me out-of-the-way and off-balance in order to get to the snacks on a low table at a Con party by saying "You know, an 'Excuse me' would have worked just as well.&quot

He was also beloved by many of my LA friends despite these views and traits.

There will be a public memorial for him at LASFS's annual LACon, this Thanksgiving weekend.

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