Have Chapbook, Will Travel

[randy_byers]

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Well, gang, I am officially on vacation for three weeks. Tomorrow afternoon I'm headed to the airport to start my trip to London, Brussels, Antwerp, Nottingham, Boston, Toronto, and then home again -- and then on to Oregon for Thanksgiving a couple days after that. A long and winding trip. I'm in full panic mode, trying to get everything ready to go.

One thing that's ready -- just printed today -- is a chapbook that carl and I put together. That's the cover above. What is it? A remix of text from AE van Vogt's The Weapon Makers and line drawings from various pulp and SF sources. A weird pulp avant garde dream. Well, hell, it's something to hand you if you hand me a fanzine, so beware. At least it looks cool, thanks to carl.

See some of you soon! I am stoked! (Now I just need to get packed.)

Comments

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Have the best of awesome good times, and drink a beer for me.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

But you don't like Belgian beer!

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Well, no. Drink my beer when you're in England. Drink Ole's beer when you're in Belgium. If you can't tell which country you're in, it's time to drink water.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Oh right, I'm going to drink beer in England too! I forgot about that. I wonder whose beer I'll drink in Toronto.

[dlacey.livejournal.com]

Mill Street Brewery, in the distillery district is an excellent micro brewer. Likewise, Amsterdam brewery, perhaps a 10-15 minute drive from the hotel depending on traffic, is pretty good too.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Diane! Is the Mill Street Brewery walking distance from the convention?

[dlacey.livejournal.com]

No, not really. It's about a 5 minute drive if traffic isn't too bad.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I hope you have a good time as well, of course. Yeah!

Now I have the opening chords of "Bohemian Rhapsody" going through my head.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Moo ha ha!

[spikeiowa.livejournal.com]

Bon voyage!

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Chapbook! Color me intrigued.

After reading the bheer conversation you and Kate are having, I've started contemplating where to stop in Boston for a bheer; whether or not the Smuttynose Pumkin Ale will suffice as a representative brew to down at Toad Woods; and if 10:30 am is too early to drink in Troy....

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

That all sounds good to me!

[(Anonymous)]

Hope a copy of PROMETHEAN WAKES is in my mailbox's future....

Saw you on YouTube -- darkly "lit" but unmistakable.

Best wishes,
Robert Lichtman