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in reply to a message by Daividh
Got a few cool things. Picked up Julius Schwartz' biography and got him to sign it -- which was cool coz we've known Julie for years but hadn't seen him since his bio was published. Got Lisa Howard from *Earth: Final Conflict* to autograph a photo of herself for our little nephew in England who's craaaaaaazy about that show. Found a couple of old 60s teevee tie-in novels -- *Lost in Space* and *Bewitched*. Can you believe those paperbacks originally sold for 60 cents and 45 cents????
And I got a special prezzy of a Gallo pewter fairy called "Satin", which someone told me looks like me, so of course I had to have it. :)
http://store1.yimg.com/I/karibagifts_1628_1244062
Those are supposed to be pointy ears sticking out of her hair, but I thought they looked more like Satanic horns. Well, at least that and her face and hairstyle *only* I'll modestly believe might remind someone of me. :)
So, Daividh, what'd *you* buy today? :)
-- Nanaea
And I got a special prezzy of a Gallo pewter fairy called "Satin", which someone told me looks like me, so of course I had to have it. :)
http://store1.yimg.com/I/karibagifts_1628_1244062
Those are supposed to be pointy ears sticking out of her hair, but I thought they looked more like Satanic horns. Well, at least that and her face and hairstyle *only* I'll modestly believe might remind someone of me. :)
So, Daividh, what'd *you* buy today? :)
-- Nanaea
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Very nice! The site with your picture isn't loadable now for some reason, but if memory serves me, there IS a distinct resemblance (facial, at least :) ) to the fairy.
(What'd I buy today? Some groceries and ALMOST a commercial air hockey table, but still gotta do some talkin on the price. Exciting, huh?)
Must be cool to be able to rub shoulders with SF literary types. Those of us in the hinterlands don't get much opportunity. My sum-total literary connections are as follows:
1) My mother and Maeve Binchy have known each other for years, but aren't real thick. I met her once, very briefly.
2) In my late youth I used to throw back a few brews with an older college friend and his buddy, who was editor of the campus humor magazine. The buddy was off-the-wall but pretty funny. I'd notice for years thereafter that the guy would occasionally put out obscure children's humor books under the nickname he'd used in college. It was only after he started using his initials and switched to juvenile series writing that he hit his stride: R.L. Stine...
Th-th-that's all, folks.
(What'd I buy today? Some groceries and ALMOST a commercial air hockey table, but still gotta do some talkin on the price. Exciting, huh?)
Must be cool to be able to rub shoulders with SF literary types. Those of us in the hinterlands don't get much opportunity. My sum-total literary connections are as follows:
1) My mother and Maeve Binchy have known each other for years, but aren't real thick. I met her once, very briefly.
2) In my late youth I used to throw back a few brews with an older college friend and his buddy, who was editor of the campus humor magazine. The buddy was off-the-wall but pretty funny. I'd notice for years thereafter that the guy would occasionally put out obscure children's humor books under the nickname he'd used in college. It was only after he started using his initials and switched to juvenile series writing that he hit his stride: R.L. Stine...
Th-th-that's all, folks.
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Really? Wow my little sister used to bring those books home to read. I have read some myself. Sitting at my mom's with nothing else to do. You know family events and all. Dreading the fact that I still have to go to my husbands parents house later. Why not pick up a book and read!
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Since the topic concerns prize posessions, lemme brag a bit about my favorite (Nan knows about this). Back in an early 90s Sotheby's auction I acquired something held by my favorite actor in a movie made by my favorite director based on a novel written by my favorite horror author: the axe held by Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".
The axe itself is fairly innocuous (made of fiberglass) and is presently mounted in my daughter's room :)
Since the topic concerns prize posessions, lemme brag a bit about my favorite (Nan knows about this). Back in an early 90s Sotheby's auction I acquired something held by my favorite actor in a movie made by my favorite director based on a novel written by my favorite horror author: the axe held by Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".
The axe itself is fairly innocuous (made of fiberglass) and is presently mounted in my daughter's room :)
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VERY cool, Pavlos, altho Nephele's room seems an odd place to display it. Me, I'd have it over the sofa -- or to mark my wife's side of the bed : )
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Omigosh -- you knew "Jovial Bob" way back when? I dunno how jovial he's feeling these days, though, after his recent lawsuit with Scholastic.
If only you lived here in New York, we could kick back in a pub and swap stories. :)
-- Nanaea
If only you lived here in New York, we could kick back in a pub and swap stories. :)
-- Nanaea
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You know I have never met anyone who was famous. But my uncle went to school with Bob Dylan . Up in Hibbing, MN. And a friend from highschool was in a movie for like 5 mins. 5 mins short of his 10 mins of fame I guess! And a really dumb movie Drop dead gorgous(sp?) was filmed in and around my home town. Mont Rose is actually Rosemount. The directer or something is from Rosemount. There is a part of the movie where the girl is tap dancing down a road going to her trailer park. Well I used to travel that road all the time cause my best friend used to live in that trailer park. Not that it is something that exciting but when you dont normally see you home town in a film it was pretty cool. Even if the movie sucked.
Diana / Gia Nadine
Diana / Gia Nadine
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Jovial Bob, as campus Humorist Laureate, was a BMOC in those days.
Yers truly was a lowly fraternity pledge allowed to tag along to drinky-thons with my frat Big Brother (who as Ohio State student body pres, was also a BMOC). I remember Bob, but I garntee he wouldn't remember me (these gatherings were hardly the Inklings). But just being there and rubbing elbows was fun!
Yers truly was a lowly fraternity pledge allowed to tag along to drinky-thons with my frat Big Brother (who as Ohio State student body pres, was also a BMOC). I remember Bob, but I garntee he wouldn't remember me (these gatherings were hardly the Inklings). But just being there and rubbing elbows was fun!
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