tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post1661771055803970158..comments2024-03-27T17:14:54.791-05:00Comments on Glorious Trash: Ryder Syvertsen, R.I.P.Joe Kenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-74232395112102744592017-01-13T13:27:48.606-06:002017-01-13T13:27:48.606-06:00I knew Rydar well from several decades ago...We li...I knew Rydar well from several decades ago...We lived in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn..He was fair with blue eyes, and a very colorful character; brash, yet had a sensitive side too...Talking with him was always a pleasure as he was bright and present and had that world weary NYC banter...He got married when he was middle-aged and he and his wife Page and their young son moved to Staten Pennylanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654377141113125169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-89248669837128207502017-01-13T13:27:15.032-06:002017-01-13T13:27:15.032-06:00I knew Rydar well from several decades ago...We li...I knew Rydar well from several decades ago...We lived in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn..He was fair with blue eyes, and a very colorful character; brash, yet had a sensitive side too...Talking with him was always a pleasure as he was bright and present and had that world weary NYC banter...He got married when he was middle-aged and he and his wife Page and their young son moved to Staten Pennylanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654377141113125169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-22168490877828053112016-06-13T13:16:27.881-05:002016-06-13T13:16:27.881-05:00James, thanks a lot for the comment, loved to hear...James, thanks a lot for the comment, loved to hear from someone who knew Syvertsen. And your comment really knocked me for a loop, as it's the textbook definition of what Carl Jung termed "synchronicity" -- this past Tuesday (June 8th) I was in Chicago, and spent the day hanging out with <a href="http://glorioustrash.blogspot.com/search/label/Leonard%20Levinson" rel="nofollow">Len Joe Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-83501408077949487322016-06-10T15:06:59.026-05:002016-06-10T15:06:59.026-05:00Used to hang out with Ryder for New Years Eve at t...Used to hang out with Ryder for New Years Eve at the house of a mutual friend. An eclectic place with ancient Egyptian artifacts, mementos from Hannes Bok & Clark Ashton Smith, and Lin Carter's ashes in a box (yes, seriously). He had visited our house one year when we hosted a Lunarians' picnic, and we were showing him the "Ogham carvings" on some rocks behind our propertyjelabarre59https://www.blogger.com/profile/09289181130412896265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-57147117354272751072015-04-06T11:56:24.534-05:002015-04-06T11:56:24.534-05:00Thanks for the comments! RJR, great to hear from ...Thanks for the comments! RJR, great to hear from someone who knew Syvertsen...it's starting to sound like many of these men's adventure authors were "characters." Mark Roberts appears to have been another.<br /><br />Brigonos, that's my favorite part of the interview. Too bad the interviewer didn't pursue that topic a little further. You are correct, though -- in my Joe Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-20709984912774116932015-04-06T11:54:37.247-05:002015-04-06T11:54:37.247-05:00Bummer that he's dead. Those Doomsday Warrior...Bummer that he's dead. Those Doomsday Warrior books got me through many a study hall back in my high school days. I need to go back and re-read 'em.Zwolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02364540771153476179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-81601570084664851472015-04-05T14:08:46.244-05:002015-04-05T14:08:46.244-05:00I knew Syvertsen in NY. He was . . . what's th...I knew Syvertsen in NY. He was . . . what's the word . . . a character, very outspoken when he thought he'd been slighted. RJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17534166025889599640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-60556609786173498372015-04-05T09:50:25.512-05:002015-04-05T09:50:25.512-05:00A shame he has joined the Glowers, but he had a go...A shame he has joined the Glowers, but he had a good run, and got to contribute to the pop-cultural landscape and bring the pleasure of reading to many.<br /><br />Although I have to point out you said in multiple reviews of Doomsday Warrior books that you thought it was someone else writing the new-age hippy sequences sprinkled around the series - yet Syvertsen clearly claims in that interview Brigonoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05284882511370405132noreply@blogger.com