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Jay Lake
Date: 2007-08-11 13:39
Subject: [conventions] Armadillocon, Day Two, part 1
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Had an excellent Mexican breakfast at Cisco's with [info]davidlevine and [info]kateyule. We then drove by my old house here, where I pointed out the house from the Porn Fire Story some of you have heard me tell.

Spent a bunch of time talking to Jess Nevins about the economics and sociology of 19th century railroad expansion. He also explained to me about railroad pulps, a now-forgotten genre of publishing. Lunch with Jess, Chris Roberson and a few other folks. I did a signing this afternoon with Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person, and of course my Howard interview is coming up tonight.

Some of us bandied about the possibility of doing an anthology of mobile home stories. I need to haul out my old Bubba Yaga story, about the witch who lives in a single-wide that runs around Texas on chicken feet.

I love conventions.

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Alex D M
User: [info]alankria
Date: 2007-08-11 21:31 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

Railroad pulps? I'm intrigued.

I need to haul out my old Bubba Yaga story, about the witch who lives in a single-wide that runs around Texas on chicken feet.

I would most definitely read that. A mobile home antho sounds like it'd be an interesting read.

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Tamara Sheehan
User: [info]tsheehan
Date: 2007-08-11 22:28 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

Hah! Agreed! That sounds like it would be a great anthology.

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Bob
User: [info]yourbob
Date: 2007-08-11 23:48 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

Say Hi to Laura Ann Gilman for me if you see her, please. :) Or not.

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spielmadchen
User: [info]spielmadchen
Date: 2007-08-12 01:26 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

I just told her. She laughed and waved back.

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Bob
User: [info]yourbob
Date: 2007-08-12 01:51 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

Thanks. I'd asked her to say hi to Jay for me. Figured turn about was fair play.

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When life gives you lemmings...: Fafnir 5/80 1923
User: [info]danjite
Date: 2007-08-12 01:28 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Keyword:Fafnir 5/80 1923

My favorite story of the railroad era is the true, two-fisted tale of the day the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific simultaneously bought each other out.

At least I think it was those two... my notes are 8,000 miles from here.

Pout.

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Gary Emenitove
User: [info]garyomaha
Date: 2007-08-12 01:31 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

>>story of the railroad era<<

You...mean...we...still...aren't...IN...the...railroad...era??

::gasp::

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When life gives you lemmings...: Ark II
User: [info]danjite
Date: 2007-08-12 02:05 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Keyword:Ark II

I don't think USia is.

Here, the narrow gauge is the most cost effective way to get the 400 miles to Bangkok.

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User: [info]dsgood
Date: 2007-08-12 01:57 (UTC)
Subject: Forgotten pulp genres

Several years ago, reading a collection of Louis L'Amour's short stories, I came to one in which the hero defeats the armed villain using only his fists. I was startled.

After a while, I realized: When L'Amour was writing for the pulps, he didn't write only for Western pulps. He also wrote for (among others) boxing pulps.

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Jess Nevins
User: [info]ratmmjess
Date: 2007-08-12 13:46 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

Jay--

It was my pleasure! It's been a stone groove meeting you and I was tickled that I could contribute anything to The Lake Literary Machine (soon to conquer a genre near you).

-- Jess N.

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juliabk
User: [info]juliabk
Date: 2007-08-13 17:41 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

Bubba Yaga! I *must* read that!!!! ;-)

Good to see you for the brief moments I did see you. My retinas will recover eventually. :-)

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