Another great storyteller has left us...

December 5, 2008 - Associated Press, relayed by Craig Miller

Forrest J Ackerman died Thursday [December 4th] of heart failure at his Los Angeles home, said Kevin Burns, head of Prometheus Entertainment and a trustee of Ackerman's estate.

His caregiver Joe Moe said it was just before midnight, and he slipped away gently and with as much dignity as anyone would wish. He had just turned 92 ten days earlier.

{lifts glass...}