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Tomorrow I leave for a ten day trip to Orange and LA environs. I'll be talking to Jim Blaylock's high school class (and maybe his college class, too), visiting with some other writers, and signing at Dark Delicacies on Saturday the 4th at 2pm. I've never signed there before --although I have visited and it's very a very nifty horror store (possibly the only one specializing in horror in the US) and will be signing copies of Inferno, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Collection, and the Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and I'm also bringing a few first edition hardcovers of some of my OP titles. Glen Hirshberg will be signing Inferno as well and I gather Jason Stoddard is coming too (he's in the Del Rey Book of SF&F--so if you're in in the Burbank area next Saturday, come on by.
After the signing, I'll be heading out to the wilds of Stallion Springs (a couple of hours east of LA) to be wined and dined and otherwise entertained by the inestimable chef, writer, mask maker, and artist Michaela Roessner (aka Mikey) and her marvelous and talented sculptor husband, Richard.
They usually have some great wildlife outside the house; I wonder if they still have their raccoon families begging for kibble in front of the glass door on their deck.... I'll settle down to relax and read while Mikey is working/teaching online and Richard is sculpting. I hope to be online but don't know the various capabilities of the Blaylock house or the Roessner-Herman house...in any case, I'll have my laptop, my dial up numbers and and ethernet cable with me.
I'll be back the 9th.
Ah, and I watched The Notorious Bettie Page, the biopic of the pinup who made bondage respectable (for a very short while). Gretchen Mol was very good but there are some BIG gaps in her life--her relationships are weirdly truncated --not only her relationships with her boyfriends (at least I assume the two men she's seen going out with are boyfriends) oddly distant, but her relationship with the famous photographer who got her into Playboy--Bunny Yaeger, is virtually non-existent. They meet, they talk for a few minutes, Bunny shoots the famous Playboy photo and that's that. The movie is only 90 minutes long and it feels as if it could use another 15 minutes. It's possible the moviemakers were being very careful because Bettie, who gave up modeling, disappeared for decades, and was only recently "found" livign a quiet life as a Born-Again Christian. Who knows? Anyway, what could have been a great movie is only a so-so one. But Mol definitely gets the innocence of Bettie right. Brava!
After the signing, I'll be heading out to the wilds of Stallion Springs (a couple of hours east of LA) to be wined and dined and otherwise entertained by the inestimable chef, writer, mask maker, and artist Michaela Roessner (aka Mikey) and her marvelous and talented sculptor husband, Richard.
They usually have some great wildlife outside the house; I wonder if they still have their raccoon families begging for kibble in front of the glass door on their deck.... I'll settle down to relax and read while Mikey is working/teaching online and Richard is sculpting. I hope to be online but don't know the various capabilities of the Blaylock house or the Roessner-Herman house...in any case, I'll have my laptop, my dial up numbers and and ethernet cable with me.
I'll be back the 9th.
Ah, and I watched The Notorious Bettie Page, the biopic of the pinup who made bondage respectable (for a very short while). Gretchen Mol was very good but there are some BIG gaps in her life--her relationships are weirdly truncated --not only her relationships with her boyfriends (at least I assume the two men she's seen going out with are boyfriends) oddly distant, but her relationship with the famous photographer who got her into Playboy--Bunny Yaeger, is virtually non-existent. They meet, they talk for a few minutes, Bunny shoots the famous Playboy photo and that's that. The movie is only 90 minutes long and it feels as if it could use another 15 minutes. It's possible the moviemakers were being very careful because Bettie, who gave up modeling, disappeared for decades, and was only recently "found" livign a quiet life as a Born-Again Christian. Who knows? Anyway, what could have been a great movie is only a so-so one. But Mol definitely gets the innocence of Bettie right. Brava!
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I can now imagine a buffed-up Datlow who's been lugging books for the past few decades, lugging them around to events. (A new Datlow special power!)
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Oh yeah...my doctor tells me to do weigh bearing exercises and I just laugh. I walk up three flights of stairs at least once daily, usually carrying books and/or groceries.
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Have a great trip!
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thanks-It should be sunny, hot, and dry, which is what I like about LA.
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Rick Bowes
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They're very near an excellent tea shop too, if you're into tea: http://www.chadotea.com/index.php
I may well end up near Burbank the day you're there, if so I'll definitely drop in to say hi!
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I hope to see you Saturday.
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Darn, you're busy
Sorry if that's rude.
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Dark Delicacies ROCKS
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-- C.
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I'll be heading out to the wilds of Stallion Springs
OK, I totally read that as Wyld Stallion Springs. Like, the fake band from Bill and Ted's Excellent Aventure. *smacks forehead*
I love Bettie Page - I was thinking about watching that movie but haven't gotten around to it yet!
Ooh, and OT, but guess what? I've got a book review up at SFRevu.com this month. (Cone Zero.) Yay!
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Watch the Bettie Page movie for Gretchen Mol. She's good in it.
Congratulations!
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I actually asked if they'd maybe put my Inferno review in, too, but they said they generally don't put in a review that's shown up elsewhere first. :( Which is understandable, of course.
Next month (assuming I finish it in time!) I'm reviewing Dragons of Manhattan. :)