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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25 |
So who's going? | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.83 |
Me. Just sent off my cheque, actually. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
How about Charlie? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
:-) | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.0.9.161 |
How was France, Zed? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
What are you wearing, JPL? *mopsbrow* | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25 |
You going, Griff? | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Nope! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.143.25 |
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 |
Tragic that I'm going to miss all this.  | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.92.216.182 |
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 |
Come on in, Karim! | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
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 |
The Canuck "eh". | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Er, dunno...might do...uh, possibly... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.137.224 |
Aw, go on! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.248.217 |
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 |
"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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Actually, we did that as well. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.108.52.226 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
where and when is it? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.54 |
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 |
Love Conan. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.161.215 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
You chums kill me. (get it?... "chums-keee-ill?"... as in "Chomsky"?... oh fuck it all) |