{"id":2248,"date":"2010-08-30T18:16:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T23:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2011-08-27T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T15:04:11","slug":"armadillocon-32-photos-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=2248","title":{"rendered":"Armadillocon 32 Photos (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And here are some more photographs I snapped at Armadillocon 32.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs388.snc4\/45100_1405193289986_1236991540_31000308_7769238_n.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8220;Steampunk Guest of Honor&#8221; Michael Bishop upon seeing that I had a box of books for him to sign.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs424.snc4\/46705_1405193129982_1236991540_31000307_2748440_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nMichael Bishop upon finding out that I had a <i>second<\/i> box of books for him to sign.<\/p>\n<p>Better pictures of the dealer&#8217;s room:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs412.snc4\/47483_1404688037355_1236991540_30999214_7610692_n.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs435.snc4\/47773_1404688117357_1236991540_30999215_364050_n.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Better pictures of the hotel atrium:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs202.ash2\/46507_1404690197409_1236991540_30999236_2706714_n.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs369.snc4\/45179_1404690277411_1236991540_30999237_7931376_n.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs208.ash2\/47091_1404690357413_1236991540_30999238_6912906_n.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs402.snc4\/46539_1404690437415_1236991540_30999239_2421315_n.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs191.ash2\/45451_1404688197359_1236991540_30999216_4099765_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nRobert Jackson Bennett, whose first novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316054690?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0316054690\"><b>Mr. Shivers<\/b><\/a>, no less an authority than Joe Domenici called &#8220;The finest first novel I have read in years.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs391.snc4\/45411_1404688437365_1236991540_30999218_4214898_n.jpg\"\nToastmistress and noted lush Nancy Kress, caught between drinks. \n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs436.snc4\/47894_1404688317362_1236991540_30999217_3224764_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nLovely Editor Guest of Honor Anne Sowards reviewing a manuscript at the signing table, presumably a novel about shape-shifting car mechanic who is also a werewolf, or perhaps a shape-shifting wolf mechanic who is also a werecar.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs209.ash2\/47207_1404688757373_1236991540_30999221_7397975_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nNoted lush and former Armadillocon fan GoH Scott Bobo, who once tried to help us pick up teenage girls in Japan. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs406.snc4\/46945_1404688877376_1236991540_30999222_2336508_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nKasey and Joe R. Lansdale.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs388.snc4\/45116_1404688957378_1236991540_30999223_5726874_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nKasey and Joe R. Lansdale, now with 75% more Fortified Cuteness per serving.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs189.ash2\/45251_1404689037380_1236991540_30999224_4528906_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe wily Maureen McHugh, who skillfully avoided lesser hunters by not appearing on programming.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs407.snc4\/47061_1404689157383_1236991540_30999225_6799041_n.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs400.snc4\/46294_1404689277386_1236991540_30999227_8222657_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nTwo Views of Mark Finn from his one-man show, &#8220;Colonel Kurtz Goes Bowling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs189.ash2\/45221_1404689477391_1236991540_30999228_1118587_n.jpg\"\nIn this picture, UberSMOF and noted bookseller Willie Siros contemplates the complete collapse of Western civilization and its horrific spiral down into madness, cannibalism and death. Or possibly the Astros. \n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs368.snc4\/45153_1404689557393_1236991540_30999229_2149656_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nPaul Miles<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs369.snc4\/45182_1404689677396_1236991540_30999230_1434896_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nChris Nakashima-Brown and Paul Miles, poised artfully in front of a display of Michael Bishop&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs367.snc4\/45010_1404689957403_1236991540_30999233_3188720_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nSF Signal honcho John DeNardo caught during a spare moment of his one-day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/event-report-armadillocon-32\/\">whirlwind tour<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs185.ash2\/44789_1404690037405_1236991540_30999234_1824014_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nLillian Stewart Carl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs408.snc4\/47147_1404690117407_1236991540_30999235_1067052_n.jpg\"><br \/>\n Jayme Lynn Blaschke. Disclaimer: I feel it only fair to warn you that the planets depicted on his vest are not, in fact, astronomically accurate. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs183.ash2\/44669_1404690517417_1236991540_30999240_3669329_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nGoH Rachel Caine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs214.ash2\/47698_1404690597419_1236991540_30999241_6084627_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nDon Webb, preparing to lead his troops up the beaches of Normandy. Or perhaps Cancun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs189.ash2\/45250_1404690677421_1236991540_30999242_8326679_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nHugo-winning fan artist Brad Foster IS Beldar Conehead!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs428.snc4\/47086_1404690797424_1236991540_30999243_1558391_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nNoted lush Mikal Trimm, enraged that I&#8217;ve temporarily delayed him from obtaining more beer. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs314.snc4\/41032_1404690877426_1236991540_30999244_4022144_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nOld Earth Books publisher Michael Walsh. (And if you want to buy signed copies of the Best of Howard Waldrop volumes he published, <a href=\"lame.html\">look here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs202.ash2\/46491_1405191529942_1236991540_31000293_1405329_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nPaul Lynde expert Steve Wilson.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs185.ash2\/44853_1405191649945_1236991540_31000294_3580354_n.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=2492\">Dwight Brown<\/a>, contemplating exactly how he will murder executives at AT&#038;T slowly and painfully.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs201.ash2\/46459_1405191729947_1236991540_31000295_1052415_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nYvonne Daily and Phil Brogden, <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs203.ash2\/46596_1405191849950_1236991540_31000296_2611267_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nChuck (not at the con), Michael Sumbera, and Milton (also not at the con)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs409.snc4\/47264_1405192049955_1236991540_31000297_8179269_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nAn attendee&#8217;s Steampunk purse, which is just a few dials shy of a certified weather station. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs295.snc4\/41073_1405192209959_1236991540_31000299_7232989_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nSaid purse may or may not have belonged to one of these Steampunk aficionados.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs406.snc4\/46931_1405192409964_1236991540_31000301_1825608_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nKim Kofmel and Al Jackson. (I have another picture of the two of them, and Al&#8217;s eyes are <i>also<\/i> closed in that one.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs405.snc4\/46782_1405192569968_1236991540_31000302_76452_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe lovely Denman Glober, camped out below a giant Space Squid banner.  But I do wonder why her parents named her like a James Bond villain. &#8220;Denman Glober&#8221; sounds like someone who should be running a shadowy international conglomerate from his secret lair underneath the Pacific&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs196.ash2\/45957_1405192649970_1236991540_31000303_3463444_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nSarah Felix. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc4\/hs316.snc4\/41115_1405192769973_1236991540_31000304_1363907_n.jpg\"><br \/>\n<i>New York Times<\/i> best-selling author Aaron Allston, struggling mightily to stay awake after having just seen a compilation of the line-dancing scenes from <b>Howling 7<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs211.ash2\/47379_1405192889976_1236991540_31000305_2937019_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nProgram director Jonathan Miles, who put me on not one, but <i>two<\/i> 10 AM panels after I asked not to be scheduled for any panel before noon. Incidentally, this picture was taken just after Jonathan had finished his busy day of selling crack to school children, but before he went off to kick puppies and burn American flags. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs210.ash2\/47319_1405193409989_1236991540_31000309_6063652_n.jpg\"><br \/>\nHouston writer John Moore, looking snazzy in the seersucker pants he borrowed from reporter Carl Kolchak. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here are some more photographs I snapped at Armadillocon 32. &#8220;Steampunk Guest of Honor&#8221; Michael Bishop upon seeing that I had a box of books for him to sign. Michael Bishop upon finding out that I had a second box of books for him to sign. Better pictures of the dealer&#8217;s room: Better pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,56,49,5],"tags":[582,579,565,1973,571,268,573,401,144,1983,1979,577,480,584,583,580,576,264,566,578,588,569,574,586,1159,1978,572,581,1970,570,587,575,585],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-pics","category-science-fiction","tag-aaron-allston","tag-al-jackson","tag-armadillocon","tag-books","tag-brad-foster","tag-chris-nakashima-brown","tag-denman-glober","tag-don-webb","tag-dwight","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-jayme-lynn-blaschke","tag-john-denardo","tag-john-moore","tag-jonathan-miles","tag-kim-kofmel","tag-lillian-stewart-carl","tag-mark-finn","tag-michael-bishop","tag-michael-sumbera","tag-michael-walsh","tag-nancy-kress","tag-paul-miles","tag-phil-brogden","tag-photos","tag-pics","tag-rachel-caine","tag-sarah-felix","tag-science-fiction","tag-scott-bobo","tag-steve-wilson","tag-willie-siros","tag-yvonne-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}