The death of Stevies fandom

[David]

Originally Posted by sue

I’m not a great Stevie fan myself, these days but enough is enough.

The energy here comes in spurts. Months might be kind of dry, and then something will happen — her hall of fame induction, a new article, a new old anthology — and the fun fights start all over again. The Ledge is like calling your old friend: in high school, you talked on the phone every day; in college, you talked every week; now you talk every couple of months (or a few times a year) because life.

Stevie is still fun to talk about, whether it’s about what she’s doing (or not doing) now or about thirty years ago. One of my favorite things to do here is contribute to a very old thread that someone revived. It was so long ago that reading old threads is like reading old email (we’ve started passing around old email at work, too).

I wish Stevie could still sing. But at least she can still be — know what I mean?