These are some of my favourite photos from our recent trip
Jim Frenkel and ‘close friend’ David Coe
my drinking buddies Kaaron Warren, Alisa Krasnostein, Rob Hood and James Sweeting
Me with the extremely awesome Tim Powers
Organisers of the Aussie party: Garth Nix, Jonathan Strahan, Trevor Stafford and Deb Biancotti
Holly Black
Me with buddies Matt Reiten and Ken Scholes
The Neilsen-Haydens
Rob and I fawning over Kim Newman
Garth ‘Two Seabreeze’ Nix
Me & Alisa atop The Empire State Building
Me with plastic replica Pierce Brosnan
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One day, one day, I’ll be in one of those pictures. And then you’ll be sorry.
you better be in my pictures one day! I’m dying to meet you in person. hey, ta for the Hells Half Acre Herald. You can never have too much info about carnivorous plants.
I’m glad you got it, and expect more in the near future. If I’d had any brains at all, I would have listened more attentively to Jeff Vandermeer back in 1999 when he told me to write about gardening, because I would have saved myself the subsequent three years of pain.
I guess gardening only becomes painful if the plants try to eat you!
Are you kidding? That’s half of the fun. The old 1981 BBC miniseries adaptation of The Day of the Triffids came out on DVD in the States last week, and you can spot the serious horticulture junkies watching it because they’re thinking “Okay, so it stings people to death, feeds on their corpses, and communicates with its kin to let them know where to find more people. I wonder if I’ll get a discount if I buy bare-root instead of in a pot?”
(Naturally, he says this, having made plans to grow lots and lots of Datura angel’s trumpets for friends next spring. Every last part of the plant is dangerously poisonous, and this particular variety is best known to The Serpent and the Rainbow fans as “the zombie’s cucumber”. Between these, the carnivorous plants, the nightshade bush the Czarina wants to get for our overly shaded back corner by the gas meter, the moonflower and passion flower vines, the Wollemi pine, the “horsecrippler” cactus I rescued from a construction site in West Texas, and a plethora of others, I might have to go back to writing…to write the gardening book Clive Barker and George Romero would be proud to have on their shelves.)
aha! zombie’s cucumber! I know it well (although not from personal experience). Yes, I think a gardening of the living dead book is an awesome idea! I’d buy it!
Peirce looks… startled 😉
he does! Good to know I can unnerve plastic Bond replicas.
Important life skill.
Wouldn’t you be?
heh
I am taking some of the precious lollies you sent me to Orycon, I do say, Passionfruit Rocks. yes, they do. grin.
Nice pix as always! =)-
Ew! return of the hideous icon!
ooh that’s a nice one of us on the top of the building.