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I'm looking forward to seeing lots of friends (and making new ones) at the Aurealis Awards Ceremony in Brisbane on Saturday.* Who's coming and who's not? Looks like the giant electric head will be absent this year, thank goodness. :-)

While we're gazing into the crystal ball, what about Swancon? I just booked my hotel room and ticket. Hurrah!

* Follow the link. That's exactly what I'll be wearing on the night. And isn't the chick's raygun shaped like a wine bottle?
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23rd-Jan-2008 01:06 am (UTC)
[info]stephbg
I'll be at Swancon and happy to provide stalking services.
23rd-Jan-2008 01:07 am (UTC)
[info]catsparx
I love your new icon! And I absolutely can't wait till Saturday. And I'm also going to Swancon. How fun is this year already!!!
23rd-Jan-2008 01:15 am (UTC)
[info]chrisbarnes
I'll be at Swancon. My first ever! But not at the AAs, sadly.

Yes, that raygun is rather bottle-shaped. It's probably a Cabsavomatic or an Inebriator 5000.

Also, your new icon is... kinda scary.
23rd-Jan-2008 01:17 am (UTC)
[info]thebellman
Ah yes. The Giant Electric Head. I still have nightmares.

I shall be there, bearing trays of food, and potentially clad in a bowler. Or not. The bowler remains an uncollapsed waveform, to be determined when seen, or not, on the night.
23rd-Jan-2008 01:32 am (UTC)
[info]ladnews
Schroedinger's hat? Wonderful!
23rd-Jan-2008 01:49 am (UTC)
[info]murasaki_1966
Are you bring the Beaver, The Boots and the Baker as well?
23rd-Jan-2008 02:31 am (UTC)
[info]ladnews
I will be flying solo for both occasions. :-(
23rd-Jan-2008 02:37 am (UTC)
[info]murasaki_1966
I was asking the Bellman, not you. I didn't know you have a Baker, Boots and beaver, let alone a Snark.

Which reminds me: have you listened to the Keating soundtrack and did you like it?
23rd-Jan-2008 02:43 am (UTC)
[info]ladnews
I was wondering how Amanda would take to being referred to as "the Beaver". :-)

The Keating musical has been getting a solid rotation. It's a classic! Thanks very much for that--and for the reminder that I haven't met my end of the deal Guiltly apologies all 'round. It'll go in the mail this week.
23rd-Jan-2008 03:15 am (UTC)
[info]murasaki_1966
It could be worse: you could call her "the Barrister".

Have you ever read The Hunting of the Snark? If I ever run this country, it will mandatory reading for all ages 6 to 106.
23rd-Jan-2008 04:04 am (UTC)
[info]ladnews
As it should be! Must read it again. Thanks for another reminder.

And hey, I'd definitely vote for you.
23rd-Jan-2008 05:04 am (UTC)
[info]murasaki_1966
I am planning a coup, shorter, quicker and less mucking about. I'll probably bankrupt the country by giving all teh money tothe public libraries, but then, they can afford to buy your books.
23rd-Jan-2008 02:16 am (UTC)
[info]millisynth

Aurealis Awards?

So what are they then?


**kidding!!**


:-D
23rd-Jan-2008 02:18 am (UTC)
[info]dmw
swancon == yes
23rd-Jan-2008 02:30 am (UTC)
[info]ladnews
Are you spruiking the Adelaide con there? (Can't wait for that, btw.)
23rd-Jan-2008 02:22 am (UTC) - That aint a "raygun"...
[info]millisynth

And, yes, I dare say that IS a winebottle.
Which means HE must be holding a humungous cheese knife, yes?
23rd-Jan-2008 02:30 am (UTC) - Re: That aint a "raygun"...
[info]ladnews
Must be. Unless it's a giant chocolate. :-)

(Actually, now that I look it more closely, its shape is slightly disturbing. Or is that the rock in the wall behind it...?)
23rd-Jan-2008 02:40 am (UTC) - Re: That aint a "raygun"...
[info]millisynth

Hmmm.. yes. I agree - upon closer investigation, it is a little disturbing.

Admittedly, when I first saw the pic, I was thinking some sort of advertisement for a Sci-Fi Hairdressing Salon:
She's holding a hairdrier, he's grasping some sort of...errr... curling wand?
23rd-Jan-2008 04:17 am (UTC) - Re: That aint a "raygun"...
[info]ladnews
upon closer investigation, it is a little disturbing.

Thank goodness he's not holding it in his other hand!

Love the hairdressing analogy, especially as they don't seem to have any themselves. :-)
23rd-Jan-2008 02:39 am (UTC)
[info]murasaki_1966
The new icon is ....odd. Stick a pipe in your mouth (and take off the glasses) and you would look like "Bob" of the Church of the Sub-genius.
23rd-Jan-2008 02:44 am (UTC)
[info]ladnews
I'll take that as a compliment!

And if I knew how to Photoshop, it'd be done already.
23rd-Jan-2008 03:14 am (UTC)
[info]murasaki_1966
I'm sure one of your many friends out there could do it for you.

Any takers?

Photoshopping is not hard: fiddly, but not hard. once you get used to the program. My problem is that the program is so bloody expensive.
23rd-Jan-2008 06:24 am (UTC)
[info]austspecfic
I'll be at the AAs. Sorry to hear you'll be there without your head.

As for cons, I've just booked my NZ Easter trip...Peter F Hamiton, Elizabeth Moon...small con and beautiful country...couldn't resist.
25th-Jan-2008 07:03 am (UTC)
[info]ladnews
I'm like a cockroach--can write for days without my head.

NZ? Fantastic! I really must go one day. Just a matter of getting my shit together, I suspect. If they invited me, that'd make it really easy. :-)
24th-Jan-2008 08:33 am (UTC)
[info]gloripebbles
Aurealis? Hmmm, they may mean something in this household.....

Is that what my other half has been up to? Designing new MC wear???? So is this the stance being made?

Aaaah, the head. The nightmares those eyes gave me before their appearance last year :)
25th-Jan-2008 04:58 am (UTC)
[info]ladnews
Aaaah, the head. The nightmares those eyes gave me

That's how I felt looking in the mirror this morning. :-)
25th-Jan-2008 06:45 am (UTC)
[info]gloripebbles
Is that in preparation for Sunday morning????
25th-Jan-2008 07:04 am (UTC)
[info]ladnews
Undoubtedly. I am experiencing a flash-forward...
25th-Jan-2008 09:30 am (UTC)
[info]gloripebbles
Isn't that an occupational hazard???

Oh & my other half says to pass on "just be glad the eyes were the only things that were decided to be animated. Apparently there were many ideas 'floated' after your Dick nomination".....

See, now I'm scared (& I'm in the same house as he who spoke those words).
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