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Laird (Laird) Username: Laird
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.54.93
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 10:03 am: | |
Hi, all. I've checked in here on and off since you folks started the new board, and I recently decided it might be fun to join the party. My name is Laird Barron and I live in Washington State, USA in the bucolic countryside near Olympia. I do a bit of work in the horror/dark fantasy field and very much enjoy authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Joel Lane, and Don Tumasonis. As a matter of fact, it was my great pleasure to meet Ramsey at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention. Having grown up admiring his work, the honor of shaking his hand was long overdue. In any event, this seems a cozy den and I look forward to meeting and chatting with each of you in the days to come. Thanks to Gary Fry for the keys to the clubhouse. ;) |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 10:13 am: | |
Welcome! We'll delay the initiation ceremony until the new stock of weasels and plain yoghurt arrives. |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.236.86
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 10:15 am: | |
Welcome, Laird. |
Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.170.224.79
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 10:30 am: | |
Hi Laird - have your collection waiting for me, near the top of my TBR pile. |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 10:50 am: | |
Good to see you, Laird! Congratulations on all your nominations! Well deserved! Read his collection, folks! Buy it first! |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 11:54 am: | |
Welcome, Laird...good to have you here, mate. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.21.136
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 11:54 am: | |
Hi Laird! |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 12:08 pm: | |
Hi Laird - welcome aboard! |
Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
Username: Nomis
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 01:34 pm: | |
Good to see you, Laird. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 02:24 pm: | |
Welcome aboard, old chap! |
Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.106.58
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 02:40 pm: | |
Glad to meet you,Laird. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.139.99
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 02:42 pm: | |
Ah-ha! Mr Strantzas has entered the building! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 03:15 pm: | |
I had to drag him, kicking and screaming. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.94.219
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 06:55 pm: | |
Hullo, Laird. Welcome aboard. |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.177.49
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 07:48 pm: | |
Welcome aboard, sir! |
Laird Barron (Laird)
Username: Laird
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.54.93
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 08:11 pm: | |
Thank you all for the warm welcome. Gary: I'm grateful you didn't mention a barrel. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 08:19 pm: | |
None of us EVER mentions the barrel. [shudder] |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.11
| Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 08:34 pm: | |
Welcome Laird! Nice to have you with us. |
Laird Barron (Laird)
Username: Laird
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.54.93
| Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 12:50 am: | |
Hi, John. Glad to be here. |
Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.244.134.92
| Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 12:54 am: | |
Wellcome Laird! I love your collection! |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 05:04 am: | |
hello hello |
Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.108.241
| Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 05:56 am: | |
Hiya, Laird. Nice to have you with us. |
Laird Barron (Laird)
Username: Laird
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.54.93
| Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 08:08 am: | |
Hi, Adriana & Chris! Tom, thanks. |
Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169
| Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 06:43 pm: | |
Is it too late to evict Laird? |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 12:34 pm: | |
You don't live on Hangover Square do you, Laird? |
Laird Barron (Laird)
Username: Laird
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.54.93
| Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 04:27 am: | |
Hi, Albie. No, although I hear it's the place to tie one on. |
Barbara Roden (Nebuly)
Username: Nebuly
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45
| Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 05:51 am: | |
Belated hello, Laird. Bet you're the only person here who's ever taken part in the Iditarod, an experience which I envy. The closest I've got to sled dogs is reading about them in various books about Arctic and Antarctic exploration and the early days of the RCMP, where they tend not to fare very well. |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.97.200.24
| Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 09:29 am: | |
A late hello from here as well. Welcome aboard Laird! :-) |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4
| Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 09:58 am: | |
Good morrow to you kind sir and welcome |
Laird Barron (Laird)
Username: Laird
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.54.93
| Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 03:51 pm: | |
Thanks for the welcome, Karim and Weber. Barbara: Those were the days. The dogs are pretty much the only thing I miss about my misspent youth. I still have vivid dreams about them quite often. |
Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.67.254
| Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 04:51 pm: | |
I'm late to the party, as usual. Welcome, Laird! Good to have you on board. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.110.243
| Posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 06:52 pm: | |
Hi Laird. Good to see you here. |
Laird Barron (Laird)
Username: Laird
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.54.93
| Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 - 10:24 pm: | |
Thank you, Joel. "Scratch" and "The Bootleg Heart" continue to haunt me. Did you also write one for TTA (story title escapes me) about a man who meets a woman at a theatre, exchanges numbers and then later finds out she died that evening? He goes to her mother's home where the girl is buried.... One of the most chilling stories I've read. |
Albie (Albie) Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67
| Posted on Friday, May 09, 2008 - 01:42 pm: | |
Buried in her mother's home? In the front room? With a pile of earth and a stone! Dad always being told off for using her to put his feet up? That is chilly. |