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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25
| Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 08:39 pm: | |
So who's going? |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.83
| Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 08:47 pm: | |
Me. Just sent off my cheque, actually. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25
| Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 08:52 pm: | |
Good man! My mate Mike Wathen should be going and he wants to meet you. Something about a court record from long ago wherein one of his ancestors had an item of clothing stolen by a Probert! Also, he thinks you're a great writer and he's into old British films and stuff - he's a man of taste - I'll introduce the two of you. |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.83
| Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 09:10 pm: | |
Marvellous. And it'll be splendid to see you agains as well, Mick. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25
| Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 09:30 pm: | |
Be nice to see you again as well, Lord P, and my good lady will be there too. |
Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.69.12.207
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 10:24 am: | |
We be going. That is myself and my colleague Keith, flying the Abaddon Books flag, flogging books and launching a post-apocalypse novel by Paul Kane called The Afterblight Chronicles: Arrowhead. Looking forward to catching up with you guys. It's been ages since I last saw some of you. |
Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 11:39 am: | |
Hope to be going, though it'll only be for the Saturday as usual. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 02:00 pm: | |
I should be there for the Saturday (including the evening) - I'll have the wife with me, so should be on my best behaviour. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 02:02 pm: | |
How about Charlie? |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 02:44 pm: | |
:-) |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.0.9.161
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 02:46 pm: | |
How was France, Zed? |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 02:53 pm: | |
Tres cool, matey. We had an amazing time - found that the only way to keep out four year-old quiet was to take him to the WWII memorials and museums (which I loved). The Normandy coast is probably my favourite place of everywhere I've ever been. I even wrote a few thousand words of a new story, set in that strangely melancholic area. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.119.201
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 04:13 pm: | |
I'll be going. Bull Running for Girls, with a nifty little introduction by Gary McMahon, will be launched too. Great to have you back Zed. It never has been 2 weeks has it? |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 04:30 pm: | |
D'oh! I bet I'll have to buy it as well! |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.108
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 04:48 pm: | |
I am going to be launching my Dennis Wheatley impersonation. All you have to do is giggle |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.33.110
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 06:42 pm: | |
Oh, so yes - Mick. And just what would you wear for that John? Blue perhaps? http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=dennis+wheatley&mkt=en-gb#focal=c05 5dd6bb84b19cb7c17b21aca0bfeae&furl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.users.globalnet.co.uk%2F%257 Ejimthing%2Fdenwheat.jpg |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 08:17 pm: | |
He'll just need one of his many velvet jackets (and have to become exceedingly right-wing). |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.108
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 08:29 pm: | |
Sorry- it's kind of a carry-over from the Vault board where the entire thing kind of degenerates into a Frankie Howard impersonation. Plus it arises from the recent Welsh SF-Horror thing I was at where we were discussing the concept of FantasyCon book launch meltdown, in that I think the event may reach a point (quite possibly this year) where there are just too many books being plugged and the whole thing implodes. |
John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.108
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 08:32 pm: | |
And Dennis Wheatley comes on and says 'This sort of thing would never have happened in my day, when most writers except me knew they would be getting themselves involved in a very concrete evil if they wrote this sort of stuff because they were liable to mnake a lot of money and as we all know money is the root of all evil and besides there isn't room for any more of us on this patch. Ooer missus." |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 - 08:51 pm: | |
What are you wearing, JPL? *mopsbrow* |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25
| Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 12:57 am: | |
You going, Griff? |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 12:55 pm: | |
Nope! |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25
| Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 01:40 pm: | |
To paraphase Mrs Doyle "Ah, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, GO ON"! |
Niki Flynn (Niki)
Username: Niki
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29
| Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 03:05 pm: | |
Tragic that I'm going to miss all this. |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.92.216.182
| Posted on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 - 01:45 am: | |
Would love to go- have never been and it would be a great opportunity to meet some of you fine folk. Maybe if there are drinking games between the panels I could be persuaded. I'm actually off to Roskilde festival Wednesday to keep any drunk Swedes from vomitting on the new video installation I have premiering there. A stop at Fantasycon later would be great...hmmm |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25
| Posted on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 - 02:07 am: | |
Come on in, Karim! |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 04:12 am: | |
I wish I could be there. Sigh. Simon's going though, eh? Wild. |
Griff (Griff) Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 08:49 am: | |
The Canuck "eh". |
Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 04:43 pm: | |
in Manitoba where I'm shooting my doc (and out west in general) they say "heh" instead of "eh" - it's funny, heh? Sometimes I do it to blend in when filming. Makes me smile... |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.137.224
| Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 02:02 am: | |
They've updated the membership on the FantasyCon website. I can see Ally, JLP and Zed & Emily, but no sign of the good Doctor Fry yet. You going, Gary? Love to see Tony's name appear there too... |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 03:21 am: | |
GF is too busy sitting on that fence. :-) Tony...come on, mate. I dare ya! |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.62.199
| Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 10:12 am: | |
I wish I was at the showcase today but can't afford the train fare etc London is so far away...well in my head it is. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.248.217
| Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 01:46 pm: | |
Er, dunno...might do...uh, possibly... |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.137.224
| Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 02:17 pm: | |
Aw, go on! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.248.217
| Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 04:44 pm: | |
Don't you dare do a Mrs Doyle on me, Curtis... |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.137.224
| Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 05:38 pm: | |
"Ah, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, GO ON"! That was easy, cut'n'pasted from above! |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.219.46
| Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 01:44 am: | |
He didn't go. I went however. Nice afternoon event, a bit low-key compared to last year. RCMB visitor Stuart Young was there. And Andrew Hook. And Allen Ashley. And Charles Black. It was good fun. The day was well summed up by one writer who said he'd told his wife the event was an essential networking opportunity, and she'd replied: "You mean you're going to get drunk with a bunch of other writers that nobody reads." |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.248.217
| Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 11:08 am: | |
Even I wouldn't travel 600 miles for a pint. Mind you, did you all, er, well, you know...go for a curry? No, don't tell me. I'll only lose sleep tonight if the answer's affirmative. |
Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.100.96
| Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 02:52 pm: | |
Joel, nice chatting to you. Especially without that man Fry there to lower the tone. I take it you caught your train back okay? |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.181.85
| Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 05:51 pm: | |
Stuart – yes, thanks. Though there was only ten minutes to spare. Good to see you too. And to have a real pulp conversation, like they used to have. Nostalgia's not what it used to be. Your friend Richard is a goldmine of information on all things Robert E. Howard. Gary – you'll be relieved to hear we ended up in a wine bar eating pasta salad and similar yuppie food. The only curry on the menu was Thai green curry. The only beer was Belgian, looked like Tipp-Ex and came in similar-sized bottles. You didn't so much order as close the deal, and you had to pay in share options. |
Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.110.171
| Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 06:17 pm: | |
Joel, glad to hear you made it okay. Richard does know a thing or two abut Howard, doesn't he? Btw, I read your articles in Wormwood on Woolrich and Leiber. Good stuff. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.248.217
| Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 07:43 pm: | |
You can't talk about Howard on a diet of pasta salad. That's like trying to break the land-speed record on a pony. |
Stu (Stu) Username: Stu
Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.98.224
| Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 08:44 pm: | |
Actually, we did that as well. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.108.52.226
| Posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 09:35 pm: | |
Howard can only be discussed over a chicken vindaloo. See his story 'The Haunter of the Ring' for details. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124
| Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 - 12:10 am: | |
I see there's a new Conan movie out next year. It'd better be good, be given the LOTR treatment - only be a 15 cert at least. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126
| Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 - 08:42 am: | |
Do you have any further details, Tony? I love the first Conan film - John Milius did a great job, I reckon. The sequel, however, as absurd. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124
| Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 - 09:08 am: | |
Ugh, just found the director of some such film as hitman might be doing it. There isn't even an actor linked yet, either. |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4
| Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 - 04:22 pm: | |
where and when is it? |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.54
| Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 - 05:48 pm: | |
I know nothing about this, Tony, but I wouldn't be too hasty to complain about the major players attached to a film project - often it's their own personal interests that are key in getting the project any traction. Without the right people interested, whomever they are, a new Conan film might never even get made... but then I wonder, is that such a bad thing?... |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.83.157
| Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 - 10:34 pm: | |
Love Conan. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.161.215
| Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 09:13 am: | |
I'm more a Bran Mak Morn fan myself. There's something kind of Essex Man about Conan. He's a chancer. Bran is brooding, pessimistic and intense. Can you buy lives on e-Bay? I could do with one. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59
| Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 02:19 pm: | |
Sure. Conan rules – but he only rules in the literal sense, the being a king sense. He doesn't rule in the more important metaphorical sense. Gary: is that metaphor or metonymy? I used to be clear about the distinction, but now I'm not Saussure. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198
| Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 02:41 pm: | |
Joel: I'm sitting in a university and find that I just don't know. I feel such a Sapir owing to my Lakoff knowledge. |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.236.212
| Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 04:44 pm: | |
Ally, if you could go to bed with Conan, Kull, or Bran Mak Morn, which one would you pick? I believe they each have a penchant for clefting from skull to sternum, so naturally the choice will be difficult.... |
Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.92.216.182
| Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 04:48 pm: | |
You have to Peirce the issue and then you'll be Saussure and therefore understand the Eco resounding from the two words. (not this again) |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.77.129
| Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 05:42 pm: | |
You chums kill me. (get it?... "chums-keee-ill?"... as in "Chomsky"?... oh fuck it all) |