[Diary] 2010-03-26

[justbeast]

We went out yesterday for a birthday dinner, hibachi and sushi, with housemates and some local Portland area friends. Aside from the fact that I love hibachi, and haven't had it in a long time, I'm really happy about this dinner -- most of the people there are the most tenuous kinds of friends, brief acquaintances, and birthday dinners are exactly

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[sinboy]

Glad to hear Zero History is making progress. I really loved Spook Country, and I hope the new one is closer to that than Pattern Recognition, which was saved from being boring only by Gibson's prose and nifty ideas about near future media.

[justbeast]

Omg, that's the exact opposite of how I felt about those books! :)

Pattern Recognition was profound and beautiful, while Spook Country was merely tolerable.

[katalopolis]

I loved Pattern Recognition soooo much.

[katalopolis]

I've met William Gibson several times because he lives in the same town I do! Actually I was working in a bookstore a while back and he came in. I was trying to figure out something to say that was more profound than, "Hey! You're William Gibson!" (He knows that already), and then he left.
Afterward I realized I should've gotten him to sign the copies of his books we had in stock.

[justbeast]

ha, that's so cool! :)

(Also, that's not a bad idea, authors love signing book stocks in the store, unless they're in a hurry or whatever).

Both yuki_onna and I are all too often at a loss of what to say, when meeting our favorite authors. It's a non-trivial problem!

[garote]

Mint mocha! Holy sheeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiitt!!!!!!!