The well-rounded fan who makes and wears hall costumes, pubs his ish, runs a convention department, writes filk songs, and all that seems to have died with Bruce Pelz and Joni Stopa.

I'm not quite dead yet, and I've done all of the things you state. Not necessarily all of them in depth, but I've done some of all of them. I admit to being inspired by Bruce Pelz.

Or is the fact that I'm over 40 (born 1965; found fandom 1984 at L.A.con II) mean that my experience is irrelevant here?