It was 10 years ago this month...(Part 3)

In the summer of 2002 we had several confrontations with PDP over the status of our Media Tie-In Book Group: We asked to move the location from Livingston to Morris Plains(that plan got scuttled when Jim got sick with an ulcer);We asked that others share in the work of the group; and finally we asked to change the format to Science & Media Book group so that Jim could do science books at least 4 times a year. Phil was willing to accept the first two demands but totally resisted the third. This colored our feelings toward him & set the stage for the folding
of the Media Tie-In group in June 2003. By the fall of 2003 we had pulled out of the Final Frontier group as well leaving only the Author Discussion Group as our last link to the SFABC(this group was being run by our new friend Todd V. Ehrenfels, a Borders employee who had
intergrated himself in very nicely). By June 2004 both of our memberships in the SFABC
had lapsed,and we made what we thought at the time would be our last appearances
in the SFABC leading a discussion on Jorge Luis Borges. After that we stayed away from most of
the bookstore groups, making only occasional appearances at either the Author group or at Vince's Final Frontier pre-main meeting discussions in Saddle River(which would be discontinued in Early 2006 when he & his wife had their first child). We were able to keep up
with offical events thru Phil's Starship Local newsletter as well as the Yahoo Chat group that
Todd had set up online,which we both happily participated in, writing all sorts of sci-fi related
pieces. But nothing that happened between 2002 and early 2006 could have prepared us
for what happened next...TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 4!!!