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OnlineHost: 	janicemars has entered the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Hiya, Gand and jan.  
Gandalara: 	Yo  
janicemars: 	Hi Gand!
OnlineHost: 	JDipale has entered the room.
Gandalara: 	::: waving :::
janicemars: 	Hi JD...good to see you.
Gandalara: 	Hi JD  
JDipale: 	eeeek!  Look at all the females!
janicemars: 	Jenna, if you can do the greets and hold the queue, I'd appreciate it.
HOST EBK Chip: 	No sweat.  
Gandalara: 	Oh shuddap. You love it, JD
JDipale: 	LOL
Gandalara: 	afk ...
OnlineHost: 	DawnGress has entered the room.
janicemars: 	Hiya Dawn!
JDipale: 	when BAH gets here, I'll be changing names <VBG>
DawnGress: 	hi
HOST EBK Chip: 	I'm afraid to ask, JD.  
janicemars: 	LOL
JDipale: 	=-O
OnlineHost: 	DawnGress has left the room.
janicemars: 	Ah too bad.  We must have bored Dawn.
JDipale: 	Wow, the Dawn has gone already?
HOST EBK Chip: 	How's the con so far, Jan?
janicemars: 	Well, that's the way it goes some times.
janicemars: 	WEll.....so far for me it's been interesting.
janicemars: 	I came here expecting for Black to be the color du jour...
janicemars: 	But amazingly enough...folks here look terrifyingly normal.
janicemars: 	With a few remarkable exceptions of course.
JDipale: 	That's Goth, not Horror
HOST EBK Chip: 	Well.  It's like serial killers.  They look like everybody else.  
JDipale: 	Jan, Is Voltaire there?
janicemars: 	Indeed, and there are a couple of goths here, but not as many as I had expected.
janicemars: 	LOL...Peter Straub is as close as I can get to Voltaire for you JD.
janicemars: 	It's an extremely small and compact convention.
janicemars: 	Hold on a second, while I turn the guest webcam on..
janicemars: 	no one here yet...but one less thing to do when Yvonne and Weston show up.
janicemars: 	BRB
JDipale: 	Too bad.  At ICON, My BSG Table was next to his.  He was promoting his sci fi channel series Chi-chian 
JDipale: 	OH!!!  Forgot about that
HOST EBK Chip: 	I've been embracing my Goth nature at work lately.
janicemars: 	bak...how so Chip?
HOST EBK Chip: 	At some point I discovered that running with the Powers of
HOST EBK Chip: 	Darkness kept people the hell out of my cube.
HOST EBK Chip: 	I don't think Goths are children of the night so much as they just dislike small talk.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Oh, the usual, Jan.  Dressing in black, scary jewelry, rubber iguanas
JDipale: 	Nice Lamp
JDipale: 	testing
HOST EBK Chip: 	We're here, JD
HOST EBK Chip: 	Just rendered speechless  
janicemars: 	Can I say anything other than *Thanks JD*
janicemars: 	WEll that's and excellent reason to go Goth.
JDipale: 	sure
HOST EBK Chip: 	When it's all hosts, the one in charge feels less of an
HOST EBK Chip: 	impetus to keep the chat flowing.  
janicemars: 	I ran into Beth Gwinn earlier today in the hallway.  She and Brian should be getting on the bus in Evanston right now...
JDipale: 	How about "JD Is GOD"  :-D
JDipale: 	How far is that?
janicemars: 	We'll talk about that at ConJose.
janicemars: 	Evanston is about 50 miles SE of here....
janicemars: 	Maybe less.
HOST EBK Chip: 	How are plans for the major host get-together in ConJose goin', Gand?  
janicemars: 	There was a mass signing of books at the Evanston Library.
janicemars: 	So they should be getting here in about an hour.  Yvonne and Weston will be strolling in a little before that as well.
Gandalara: 	bak. Suppertime here :) Ara's looking for a restaurant to make everyone happy, Chip  
JDipale: 	Only 1 camera?
janicemars: 	Couldn't get anyone to come and tap dance for you all early.
JDipale: 	as long as they serve food, It's ok with me
JDipale: 	drat
HOST EBK Chip: 	I somehow doubt that's terribly likely, Gand.  
janicemars: 	OKay...I'll put the other one on, but no bitching if it doesn't feed.
HOST EBK Chip: 	So are all of us here gonna be in San Jose?
JDipale: 	ME?  Bitching?
JDipale: 	WOO-HOO!!!]
Gandalara: 	Yup! Yee haw!
janicemars: 	I'm gonna be there.
JDipale: 	How many days?
HOST EBK Chip: 	And TAM and Ara as well, yes?
Gandalara: 	Under 140 for you JD
HOST EBK Chip: 	JD, there's a con countdown clock on the Website.  
JDipale: 	Gand is already cleaning the house and stocking the fridge for my arrival!
Gandalara: 	And Ara's sister and Mom and STAR and maybe Der and maybe um, whatsername, and maybe SciFiDog  
HOST EBK Chip: 	Well, I'm just thinking of hosts.
janicemars: 	Okay, sorry, it's no go on the webcam of the whole room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	I've met everybody here, but not Ara.  Nor Tech.
JDipale: 	and maybe even SNQQP may stop by!  Gand, I forgot to tell you, she stopped by my chat again!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Shadow's never met Jan.
Gandalara: 	JD *and* TAM  will be at my house the Friday before the con, Chip. While I'm hosting. Uh oh  
janicemars: 	LOLOL
janicemars: 	That should be a joy.
JDipale: 	No go on the room cam?  drat
janicemars: 	Such is life.  Looks like I'll have to bring 3 laptops to conjose after all.
Gandalara: 	If we want to meet Tech, Chip ... we'll have to go to him I think
janicemars: 	If we want to run more than one cam.
JDipale: 	wow, you have 3 laps?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Maybe we can get him to ship himself by UPS or somethin', Gand.
Gandalara: 	LOLOL
janicemars: 	They are all very old and very beat up, JD.  Which is why this one can't handle AOL & a cam.
HOST EBK Chip: 	We're watching a woman undergo surgery without
HOST EBK Chip: 	anesthetic on the Discovery Channel at the moment.
Gandalara: 	:: puts dinner fork down :::
HOST EBK Chip: 	The general consensus is, "Urrrrrgh."
OnlineHost: 	busterw135 has entered the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Hiya, buster.
Gandalara: 	Hi Buster
janicemars: 	Hiya Buster.
JDipale: 	COOL
busterw135: 	hi 
janicemars: 	I expect to have more to say about the convention itself tomorrow.  I'll be doing a lot of panel attending.
HOST EBK Chip: 	They're using hypnosis.  Of course, it's being done in Italy,
HOST EBK Chip: 	and I don't speak Italian, so the woman may be saying,
HOST EBK Chip: 	"Get me the heck off this gurney" for all I know.
JDipale: 	which panels are you going to?
Gandalara: 	She's talking? Ga-ack.
JDipale: 	OUCH
janicemars: 	Haven't really decided yet JD.  I haven't had much of a chance to look at what's listed.
janicemars: 	I know there's one I want to attend on serial killers.
JDipale: 	what kind of surgery
HOST EBK Chip: 	On the leg, JD.
Gandalara: 	People count, Jan? How small/large is it compared to SF WorldCon?
busterw135: 	do know how to build space cars,space boats,ships
HOST EBK Chip: 	Not offhand, buster.
janicemars: 	Gand, I'd say less than 1,000...probably more like 500.  I'll pop by registration...
HOST EBK Chip: 	Jan, I find serial killers interesting in a particularly repulsive sort of way.
Gandalara: 	Wow. LosCon is 1200 to 1500. Actuallly, that's a nice size.
busterw135: 	space lawn tractors
HOST EBK Chip: 	The way they're caught is often interesting, but their randomness makes me real uncomfy.
JDipale: 	wow, that's about the size of ICON.  but, meant meeting and talking to Ray Harryhousen and Virginia Hey
janicemars: 	As do I Chip.
HOST EBK Chip: 	I was born on the 80th anniversary of Jack the Ripper's last
HOST EBK Chip: 	murder, so I have a certain interest in him.  
JDipale: 	.
JDipale: 	COOL!
Gandalara: 	Lordy.
janicemars: 	I should think you would Chip.
janicemars: 	Do you keep little pictures of him in your cube as well?
janicemars: 	I should think that would ward off chitchatters as well.
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOL.  No...although I do have wrappers from "PMS Bars."
Gandalara: 	LOL
janicemars: 	LOLOL
JDipale: 	LOL
HOST EBK Chip: 	They're great.  True Confections (www.trueconfections.com)
HOST EBK Chip: 	has a whole line of chocolate PMS Bars.
janicemars: 	So Icon is this intimate as well?  You know, it may be that a lot of folks just aren't here yet.
HOST EBK Chip: 	The slogan is, "For Any Time of the Month," and they all
HOST EBK Chip: 	have comic-book-style images of enraged women on them.
Gandalara: 	Jan, do they put out a program book, daily newsletter, etc., like SF? Do they have *room parties* like SF?
janicemars: 	There aren't a lot of events scheduled for tonight.
janicemars: 	If so, I haven't seen it yet Gand.
JDipale: 	yeah, it is held at a college campus.  most of the panels are in regular classrooms
Gandalara: 	Chip, you just solved a birthday present problem for me. Thanks  
janicemars: 	I've yet to investigate all the stuff.
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOLOL Gand.  My pleasuer.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Shadow got 'em for me.  He found them in a hardware store.  Which is telling, really.
janicemars: 	Dealer's room is incredibly small.
Gandalara: 	Welll geeze louise, what you been DOING?  
JDipale: 	at ICON, instead of books, the dealers room is all TOYS!!!
janicemars: 	I don't know that there are only about 20 dealers.
Gandalara: 	::: runs away fast :::
HOST EBK Chip: 	BTW, buster, since we don't have any guests in here yet, you're welcome to speak up.  
Gandalara: 	afk.
janicemars: 	Folks...look who just showed up0.
JDipale: 	They had the Viper that shot torpedos.  The good old days.  Now, toys can't do any af that fun stuff.  Hey, we all survived childhood!!!
OnlineHost: 	The Only Melissa has entered the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	I spoke too soon...
OnlineHost: 	The Only Melissa has left the room.
Gandalara: 	bak quickly. Bah????
Gandalara: 	Darn.
JDipale: 	WOW, I never met The Only Melissa!
janicemars: 	Brian is signing over a book to me right now on webcam...
janicemars: 	Hi Melissa.
janicemars: 	And I'll be bringing him into chat in just a momenty.
JDipale: 	BRB
OnlineHost: 	JDipale has left the room.
OnlineHost: 	Iwant IceCastles has entered the room.
Gandalara: 	LOLOL
HOST EBK Chip: 	Hiya, Iwant
Iwant IceCastles: 	Is this the BAH chat?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Yup, Iwant.
HOST EBK Chip: 	He'll be in shortly.
Gandalara: 	JD is nothing, if not persistent
Iwant IceCastles: 	COOL
Iwant IceCastles: 	JD?
Gandalara: 	::: waits for innocent eyes :::
Iwant IceCastles: 	?
Gandalara: 	You forgot to change your font  
janicemars: 	Okay folks...just a moment, we'll be right back with Brian Hopkins.
busterw135: 	no space languages here:-\
OnlineHost: 	janicemars has left the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	There are occasionally, buster.
OnlineHost: 	Moonglum9 has entered the room.
Gandalara: 	Hi Moon
HOST EBK Chip: 	Tonight is somewhat unusual; we're hosting live from the World Horror Convention.
Iwant IceCastles: 	Tell BAH to say Hi on the web cam!
OnlineHost: 	WhcHopkins has entered the room.
Moonglum9: 	hi ganda
WhcHopkins: 	est
Gandalara: 	BAH!! Hi!!
Iwant IceCastles: 	BAH!!!
WhcHopkins: 	Do I get nekkid now?
Iwant IceCastles: 	COOL!
Gandalara: 	Oh cool.
WhcHopkins: 	Hi Gandalara
Iwant IceCastles: 	does the web cam have a zoom lens?
Moonglum9: 	Who's actually at the world horror convention now?
WhcHopkins: 	Hi JD!
Iwant IceCastles: 	BAH!!!
WhcHopkins: 	Hi, Karen. Why aren't you here?
Moonglum9: 	Ok.  I must be missing something.  What is going on?
WhcHopkins: 	You want to see my nose hairs, JD?
Iwant IceCastles: 	Good to "see" you!
WhcHopkins: 	Moonglum...there's a webcam on.
Moonglum9: 	How do I see it?
Gandalara: 	Got a party to go to tomorrow night, BAH. Sorry  
WhcHopkins: 	Folks...do you have any questions for me.
Moonglum9: 	Who are you, for one?
HOST EBK Chip: 	There's nothing in the queue, WHC.
Iwant IceCastles: 	BAH, I'm saving some jpgs of you right now, I'll send them to you
Gandalara: 	WHen's Ice Castles coming? (Beating JD)
Iwant IceCastles: 	DOH!!!  I put my ? up first!
OnlineHost: 	Araiused has entered the room.
Gandalara: 	Hi Ara!
Iwant IceCastles: 	Iwant IceCastles:  ?
Moonglum9: 	You all seem to have access to something that I dont.  How do I join the festivities?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Sorry, Iwant; I must have missed it.
Araiused: 	'Allo
WhcHopkins: 	http://www.cybling.com/bccchat.html
HOST EBK Chip: 	Moon, tonight we're hosting authors from the World Horror Convention.
WhcHopkins: 	ICE CASTLES will be out next week, Karen. Didn't you get the newsletter?<g>
HOST EBK Chip: 	Right now author Brian Hopkins is available for questions.
Iwant IceCastles: 	HA!!!  Right after I get my copy of These I know By Heart, right!
Moonglum9: 	So you've said.  But This doesnt seem any different
Iwant IceCastles: 	?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, Iwant.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Erm...different from what, Moon?  
Iwant IceCastles: 	Actually, Are you going to complete Wading Inland?
WhcHopkins: 	So here I am, all alone in a hotel room with Jan. heh heh
Moonglum9: 	Never mind.  I just figured it out.  WhcHOpkins is a famous author and people are asking him questions.  Right?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Correct, Moon.  
WhcHopkins: 	Actually, I have some guests. Judi Rohrig is here, as is Kim Taylor and Susan Burgard.
OnlineHost: 	busterw135 has left the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	We'll have other authors as well, as the evening progresses.
Moonglum9: 	?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, Moon.
Iwant IceCastles: 	Judi!!!
Moonglum9: 	Who are those people?
OnlineHost: 	EnTREE34NY has entered the room.
Iwant IceCastles: 	Chip, BAH avoided my question.  Make him answer  
HOST EBK Chip: 	They're all authors, Moon. Their work trends toward horror.
WhcHopkins: 	Course, I'll change my mind ten times between now and then.<g>
HOST EBK Chip: 	Sorry, Iwant.  Perhaps we can ask Jan to hit him with a throw pillow or something.
WhcHopkins: 	JD, I have a couple more novellas to write, then I want to write the next Zolo novel ...
WhcHopkins: 	then either ICE or WADING INLAND.
Iwant IceCastles: 	NO, he like that
Araiused: 	Hey, I can see you, BAH
WhcHopkins: 	then either ICE or WADING INLAND.
WhcHopkins: 	Karen, I don't think there will ever be a hardcover of HEART, so we should settle up,
WhcHopkins: 	dear. How's a tradepaperback and a partial refund sound?
OnlineHost: 	busterw135 has entered the room.
Iwant IceCastles: 	[{{{{{{{{{{ Arai }}}}}}}}}}}]
Gandalara: 	Moon - Hopkins is Brian A. Hopkins, The Whc stands for World Horror Convention
Araiused: 	{{{{JD}}}}}
Moonglum9: 	How does one view this alleged "web cam" that's all the rage
WhcHopkins: 	Or I could apply the money toward EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS.
WhcHopkins: 	Or I could go out and get drunk on it.
Iwant IceCastles: 	No These I Know By Heart in hard cover?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Moon, I believe the webcam is on the Cybling site.  Correct, WHC/Jan?
Gandalara: 	Can I take it out in trade?
HOST EBK Chip: 	http://www.cybling.com/bccchat.html
Gandalara: 	http://www.cybling.com/bccchat.html  is the web cam. Go there and click on the link. Little box will pop up. Wait for it to load.
Moonglum9: 	Hey, I'm very slowly catching on to the happenings and gewgawery of the nights activities.  Yippie
WhcHopkins: 	I doubt the publisher is ever going to come through, JD/
Iwant IceCastles: 	Sorry to hear
WhcHopkins: 	Only if you were here, Karen.<g>
HOST EBK Chip: 	But extra points for using "gewgaw" in a sentence, Moon.  
Gandalara: 	LOL
Araiused: 	Hmm, lost pic just now..
OnlineHost: 	busterw135 has left the room.
Iwant IceCastles: 	!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, Iwant.
Moonglum9: 	I always liked that word.  Although I think it applies more to gizmos and trinkets.
Iwant IceCastles: 	Loved The Trouble With The Truth in Unnatural Selection.  Any new stuff?
Gandalara: 	Aha. He moved!
Gandalara: 	LOL
OnlineHost: 	busterw135 has entered the room.
Araiused: 	What are you trying to catch, BAH?
WhcHopkins: 	Thanks, JD. Glad you liked "Truth." I have a new/old story in the current issue of MYSTERY
WhcHopkins: 	SCENE.
WhcHopkins: 	A new story in the DAW antho SOL'S CHIDLREN (the story is called "Mirrors" -- hard SF).
Gandalara: 	Hard SF? Go, Bri!
OnlineHost: 	busterw135 has left the room.
Moonglum9: 	Wow.  Daw books.  I remember those yellow things.  Are they still around?
WhcHopkins: 	That s.b. CHILDREN of course. Who said I could type?
Araiused: 	Yep, Moon
Gandalara: 	?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, Gand.
Gandalara: 	Who 's the editor of Sol's Children?
WhcHopkins: 	Of course, I'm really excited about MUERTOS, which will be my first hardcover.
Moonglum9: 	I used to see lots of Lovecraft in those puppies
Moonglum9: 	?
WhcHopkins: 	There's a new antho out called DREAMING OF ANGELS. I have a story in it.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, Moon.
WhcHopkins: 	SOL's is edited by Jean Rabe and Marty Greenberg.
Moonglum9: 	Will MUERTOS be en espanol?
Gandalara: 	Cool. It's on my list now
Iwant IceCastles: 	?
WhcHopkins: 	If you missed "Diving the Coolidge" in HISTORICAL HAUNTINGS, you get another chance to
WhcHopkins: 	read it in BEST FANTASY 2001, edited by Silverberg, Haber, Greenberg.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead Iwant.
Moonglum9: 	Haber, mas espanol
WhcHopkins: 	That's a cool one for me, because there'll also be an audio version.
WhcHopkins: 	Only some words will be in espanol.<g>
Iwant IceCastles: 	Will you ever visit that land of EIRE again?  I loved Rhueshan's Palladium!
WhcHopkins: 	The title, for instance.<g>
Moonglum9: 	Caray?  Me gusta todas las palabras senor.
Moonglum9: 	I meant Caray!
WhcHopkins: 	Chip.. did I miss anything in queue?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Nope, WHC.
Gandalara: 	Ooh. Alcohol. 
Araiused: 	LOL
WhcHopkins: 	Anyone want to hear about World Horror? (bah begins pandering for Q's.)
Araiused: 	Or plain water
Gandalara: 	Don't mind me. This is like being a Peeping Tom  
Iwant IceCastles: 	Yes, you missed my question, again
HOST EBK Chip: 	But it wasn't missed in queue, Iwant.
HOST EBK Chip: 	BAH just elected not to answer it.  
WhcHopkins: 	Sorry...
WhcHopkins: 	could you send it again.
Iwant IceCastles: 	oh
Moonglum9: 	Where is the WHC?  Anybody?
Iwant IceCastles: 	Will you ever visit that land of EIRE again?  I loved Rhueshan's Palladium!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Moon, I'm not sure where it is geographically.
HOST EBK Chip: 	I'm gonna hazard a guess that it's it Chicago.
Gandalara: 	Near Chicago. In CHicago?
Araiused: 	<--- Trying to get used to this touchpad.
WhcHopkins: 	World Horror this year is in Chicago, Moon.
Moonglum9: 	Really?  I live south of Chicago.  What a kwinky-dink
Araiused: 	Figure I need to buy an USB mouse.
Moonglum9: 	LIKe McCormick place or some such venue
Araiused: 	Oh wow
Araiused: 	Who's that?
Araiused: 	Jan?
Araiused: 	?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Ara, Jan is channelling WHC at the moment.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, Ara.
Iwant IceCastles: 	cool
Gandalara: 	?
Araiused: 	Having fun, BAH?
Iwant IceCastles: 	cool, a 2-headed Bah
Araiused: 	!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Queue: Araiused ! Gandalara ?
Araiused: 	Introduce your friend, Bah!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, Ara.
WhcHopkins: 	Not sure, JD. Fantasy (of that nature) has always seemed to easy for me -- though I had a
WhcHopkins: 	lot of fun writing some of that stuff.
WhcHopkins: 	HOld on!
Araiused: 	<--- I'm done
Gandalara: 	LOL
HOST EBK Chip: 	Queue: Gandalara ?
Iwant IceCastles: 	ooo, that's a keeper!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, Gand
WhcHopkins: 	Jean Rabe wants me to start writing for TSR and some of the gaming companies. They'd probably like the Eire material.
Moonglum9: 	Dont you mean "too easy"  Mr. Writer?
Gandalara: 	Any favorites for awards this weekend, Bri?
WhcHopkins: 	Sadly, he left.
WhcHopkins: 	That was Weston Ochse sticking his tongue in my ear.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Erm...I assume this is Jan talking, not BAH?
Iwant IceCastles: 	BAH, I'll be posting that photo on my website
OnlineHost: 	EnTREE34NY has left the room.
Gandalara: 	LOL
Gandalara: 	Hi En
Araiused: 	En left
Gandalara: 	En a one en a two ...
Iwant IceCastles: 	?
WhcHopkins: 	Well, this year the Stokers are in NY instead of here with WHC. They are doing the IHG
WhcHopkins: 	awards here, though. Saturday night. My only prediction would be that Norm patridge will
WhcHopkins: 	take the IHG for best collection.
WhcHopkins: 	That'd be for Norm Patridge's MAN WITH THE BARBED WIRE FISTS.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Queue: Iwant ?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, Iwant.
Iwant IceCastles: 	Do you have a favorite story?  I loved All Colors Belled to Red
Iwant IceCastles: 	Bleed
Araiused: 	Belled?
Iwant IceCastles: 	drat, it's catching, BAH!
WhcHopkins: 	s.b Partridge, of course. (Mistyped that twice!)
WhcHopkins: 	Generally, whatever I've written last becomes my favorite story. I'm really pleased with MUERTOS.
Moonglum9: 	gotta go.  Remember the wise words of McGruff - TCD
Gandalara: 	afk ...
Iwant IceCastles: 	Where in NY?
HOST EBK Chip: 	See ya, Moon.
Araiused: 	Nite, Moon
WhcHopkins: 	I'm also pretty excited about the new novella that I'm working on: THE CRACK IN THE WELL
WhcHopkins: 	AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EARTH.
OnlineHost: 	Moonglum9 has left the room.
WhcHopkins: 	Be sure and check out the research photos on my webpage.<g>
Iwant IceCastles: 	cool
WhcHopkins: 	I've always been fond of "All Colors," though. Wish that story could have gotten more
WhcHopkins: 	attention than it did.
OnlineHost: 	Gandalara has left the room.
Araiused: 	Ooops
Iwant IceCastles: 	Yeah, I agree, great story
Araiused: 	Mooftime
WhcHopkins: 	Folks...do you have any final questions for me?
Araiused: 	When is Muertos going to be out?
Iwant IceCastles: 	How are you feeling?
OnlineHost: 	VVanP has entered the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Howdy-do, VV.  
VVanP: 	Hi gang.
Araiused: 	Hey, WWan!
WhcHopkins: 	Looks like I'm done here. Thanks everyone for turning
Araiused: 	Thanks, BAH!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Thanks a lot, WHC!
WhcHopkins: 	Buy MUERTOS! Check out the bah webpage at http://bahwolf.com
WhcHopkins: 	You can order here -- {www.earthlingpub.com} {http://www.earthlingpub.com}
Iwant IceCastles: 	Nice Plug  
VVanP: 	Hi Brian!
WhcHopkins: 	And I'm feeling great! Thanks everyone!
Araiused: 	Are you on camera now, VV?
Iwant IceCastles: 	Glad to hear!
WhcHopkins: 	Goodbye, everyone!
Araiused: 	Bye bye, Brian
Iwant IceCastles: 	BYE, BAH!
Araiused: 	Who is on camera now?
OnlineHost: 	Gandalara has entered the room.
VVanP: 	Have fun, Brian!  What's this camera business?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Re's, Gand.
Gandalara: 	Well, there goes that full and complete log :/
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Araiused: 	Webcam, VV
HOST EBK Chip: 	VV, there's a Website whose URL I don't have at the moment.
HOST EBK Chip: 	It's on www.cybling.com
Gandalara: 	VV! Hi!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Does anyone have the sub-page?
VVanP: 	Hi, Gand@
Iwant IceCastles: 	http://www.cybling.com/webcam.html
VVanP: 	@ = !
Araiused: 	www,cybling.com/webcam.html
OnlineHost: 	WhcWeston has entered the room.
Araiused: 	No comma there
HOST EBK Chip: 	Thanks, Iwant and Ara.
Gandalara: 	http://www.cybling.com/bccchat.html
Araiused: 	Hi, Weston
HOST EBK Chip: 	We've got several authors from the World Horror Convention, and a Webcam on the site.  
HOST EBK Chip: 	And now we've got Weston beaming in from the WHC.  
Araiused: 	I'm still getting used to his laptop's touchpad :/
WhcWeston: 	Hi everyone. Brian's corpse is smoking in the corner.
Araiused: 	LOLOL
Gandalara: 	Hi, Weston!
Iwant IceCastles: 	Hey, Weston, have BAH tell you his motorcycle story
WhcWeston: 	Hi Gandalara.
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WhcWeston: 	If I make any typing errors I swear it's cause this crazy woman is placing things over my
WhcWeston: 	eyes.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Hi, Greg.
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HOST EBK Chip: 	Hiya, T8
Iwant IceCastles: 	HiT!
WhcWeston: 	Were you the one who ran him over?
WhcWeston: 	The statute of limitations isnt quite up yet?
Iwant IceCastles: 	LOL
WhcWeston: 	Any of you out there read Scary Rednecks and Other Inbred Horrors?
Araiused: 	Hi, T
Iwant IceCastles: 	I've met a few!
HOST EBK Chip: 	:::digging toe in dirt:::  I tend to avoid horror.
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WhcWeston: 	Besides it being a biographical treatise on Bah's nearest relatives, it's my first
WhcWeston: 	collection with David Whitman
HOST EBK Chip: 	I have an overactive imagination.
WhcWeston: 	I have a question here from Cybling:
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, WHC
WhcWeston: 	Jan wants to know if I work exclusively in short fiction.
WhcWeston: 	I just finished a novel, called Scarecrow Gods. I also just completed a screnplay based on
WhcWeston: 	a novella that will be appearing in (PLUG) Tooth and Claw
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Kakaze: 	Hi all!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Why do you tend toward short fiction?  Is it easier to get out of?
Iwant IceCastles: 	brb
Araiused: 	The web cam is at Cybling's site, Kak
WhcWeston: 	And another from Cybling:  Do you have to live in LA to write screenplays.
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HOST EBK Chip: 	VLTNS, Db
WhcWeston: 	It's the same as being in a room filled with authors
Db earthy2: 	!
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Db earthy2: 	 what a delight, hello!
WhcWeston: 	You can't help but be energized byt the creativity
WhcWeston: 	Well...I've writting 70 short stories. BUT...
WhcWeston: 	I began by writing a novel....the problem was that my writing wasnt as tight as I'd like
WhcWeston: 	it to have been.
WhcWeston: 	Like bullets in East L.A.
WhcWeston: 	So, I paused the novel action and went to the harder medium...short fiction...a place
WhcWeston: 	where everyword counts....
WhcWeston: 	Like bullets in East L.A.
Kakaze: 	Brian!  Delice says hi!
Kakaze: 	If you're watching at least.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Does anyone have any questions for WHC?
WhcWeston: 	Delice. Hi There! Bah says Hi as well.
Kakaze: 	Hi from me too!
Araiused: 	What kind of horror do you prefer,  Weston?
WhcWeston: 	And another question from Cybling:
Araiused: 	Gore, the unseen thing, creepies at night?
WhcWeston: 	Another question from me...which medium to you prefer for your work, paper or electronic
WhcWeston: 	ebook?
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Db earthy2: 	BAH, BAH, BAH, sounds suspiuciously like RAH< RAH>< RAH!   I like!
JDipale: 	Star!
Araiused: 	Hi, STAR
STARMOM79: 	Hi, all
STARMOM79: 	JD!
WhcWeston: 	Well, if we're talking manual typewriters here, they make wonderful anchors....but as far
WhcWeston: 	as being published, although electronic is a growing medium, it's a harder smaller market
WhcWeston: 	for print....
WhcWeston: 	therefore more prestigous.
Kakaze: 	What about self publishing?
WhcWeston: 	Visceral horror is neat. Ed Lee just rocks my boat. But the kind I really like is soft and
WhcWeston: 	deadly...
WhcWeston: 	lik
WhcWeston: 	like
WhcWeston: 	like the kind old lady who watches the cat only to flshfry it in the last day.
WhcWeston: 	...from real high up.
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Kakaze: 	Why would someone flashfry a cat?
HOST EBK Chip: 	They're more of a dog person, Kak?
Araiused: 	LOL
WhcWeston: 	I dont see the need to self publish. I'm far too narcissistic to not want someone else to
Kakaze: 	Dogs, disgusting creatures.
WhcWeston: 	publish me. I', not against it, I just dont see any reason for it.
Araiused: 	Horns look good, Wes  
WhcWeston: 	The bottom line is that I want to be read and publishers know the markets far better than
WhcWeston: 	me
WhcWeston: 	FlashFrying cats are like searing steaks.
WhcWeston: 	.It cooks the outside and seals in the juices. Can we all sau Yummm?
Kakaze: 	Too much fat.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Yummm
Kakaze: 	In frying at least.
Kakaze: 	Searing is good.
Db earthy2: 	but who skins the cat?
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOL
Kakaze: 	I want a George Foreman grill.
T83BIRD: 	?
WhcWeston: 	There is a recipe in Korea for liquifying cats. It involves sulfer, a stout bag and
WhcWeston: 	centrifugal force. Seriously. It's beter than campbells chunky soup. Or so Bah tells me.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Go ahead, T8.
T83BIRD: 	Whc, which print zines take most of your work?
Kakaze: 	Bah is twisted, don't listen to anything he says.
Araiused: 	!
Db earthy2: 	that's why we lov ehim,so, Kak
Kakaze: 	(Delice is being retarded tonight...she thought Weston was Bah.)
Kakaze: 	I'm only passing that along so they argue about it later.
Araiused: 	Tell Bah to show his mug for Kak
Kakaze: 	:chuckles:
WhcWeston: 	I haven't been published in a print zine for a few years. recently I've been in
WhcWeston: 	antholigies....There are four print anthologies coming out this Convention with my
WhcWeston: 	stories, not to mention Children of Cthulhu published by Del Rey which came out in Jan
HOST EBK Chip: 	I saw CoC on the shelf the other day.
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T83BIRD: 	Thanks, Whc.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Comment, Ara?
Araiused: 	Hmmmm
Kakaze: 	Who's the god that we all fear?  Cthulhu, Cthulhu!
WhcWeston: 	last questions?
HOST EBK Chip: 	That's an Old One, Kak.  
Araiused: 	Throw some of your best titles around, Wes
Araiused: 	There is BAH, Kak!
JDipale: 	That's another one for the website!!!
Kakaze: 	Yeah, but it still rolls around in my head every so often.  Specially since a webcomic I read has "baby Cthulhu" as a character.   He eats, he poops, and one day he's going to take your soul.
HOST EBK Chip: 	We've entered the "Shadow Zone" now, BTW.  
WhcWeston: 	Family Man, Spectacle of A Man, Catfish Gods, Fishes Dream of Lonely Things
Kakaze: 	I don't see him.  Delice sent me some pics though.
WhcWeston: 	(see. Bah's tongue is sooo longit goes in my ear and comes out my mouth.) Ewwwwww
WhcWeston: 	lolol
HOST EBK Chip: 	Though we'll continue to use Chip's name.
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOLOL
WhcWeston: 	And now for something completey different...
Araiused: 	Ah, the Shadow
Kakaze: 	Shadow Zone?
JDipale: 	LOL
Kakaze: 	Is this some new chat euphamism that has popped up since last I came?
WhcWeston: 	the beautiful and amazing, Yvonne Navarro.
STARMOM79: 	Kak,even I got that
Gandalara: 	Hi Von!!
Kakaze: 	Shadip is coming?
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HOST EBK Chip: 	Neigh, Kak.  Chip left a few minutes ago.
JDipale: 	Von!!!
Kakaze: 	Shadip came.
Kakaze: 	Oh, that doesn't really sound right...
Araiused: 	Hi, Von
Gandalara: 	We'll have to repeat, JD :/
T83BIRD: 	Hi Von
OnlineHost: 	WhcYvonne has entered the room.
STARMOM79: 	I think I will have to leave also. I have a little surfing to do. Nite all, see you tomorrow
Gandalara: 	There she is! Hi Von!
JDipale: 	Von!!!
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Araiused: 	Hi, Yvonne
Kakaze: 	Delice says hi, Yvonne!
WhcYvonne: 	Hello!
Araiused: 	Night, STAR
HOST EBK Chip: 	Welcome, Ms Navarro!
WhcYvonne: 	Thank you!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Questions for Yvonne, anyone?
T83BIRD: 	?
HOST EBK Chip: 	T8, go ahead.
T83BIRD: 	What subgenre of horror do you prefer to write?
WhcYvonne: 	ok shoot.
WhcYvonne: 	Bang.
WhcYvonne: 	(That was bah's idea.)
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOL
WhcYvonne: 	Probably more psychological horror than anything else.
T83BIRD: 	LOL
T83BIRD: 	Thanks.
WhcYvonne: 	I only use the gore and bloody stuff when it's really essential to the plot.
WhcYvonne: 	I have a question here from Cybling:
WhcYvonne: 	Jan asks: Your first book was about vampires...are they still your first love?
WhcYvonne: 	In a way, yes. I like vampires because I believe they s
WhcYvonne: 	teal (or can steal) much more from their victims than just blood.
WhcYvonne: 	Dreams, personalities, memories, souls.
Kakaze: 	Speaking of Vampires...any new Buffy books in the works?
WhcYvonne: 	Lots of bits and pieces of your life.
Kakaze: 	Oops... ?!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Yvonne, do you find writing media-based fiction more, or
HOST EBK Chip: 	less challenging than attempting to jump-start the muse on
HOST EBK Chip: 	your own?
WhcYvonne: 	Nothing in the works right at this moment, although I have a few ideas. The newest one,
WhcYvonne: 	TEMPTED CHAMPIONS, just hit the shelves in early March.
WhcYvonne: 	Nothing in the works right at this moment, although I have a few ideas. The newest one,
WhcYvonne: 	TEMPTED CHAMPIONS, just hit the shelves in early March.
WhcYvonne: 	The series is changing pretty fast and the publisher doesn't really seem sure about what
WhcYvonne: 	part of the season to keep the books in.
WhcYvonne: 	Next year they plan on making more of an adult line.
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WhcYvonne: 	I'm not sure they're going to be doing any more young adult novels any more.
Araiused: 	Hi, BLR
BLR WIZ: 	Hi All
HOST EBK Chip: 	That will be unwelcome news to my daughter.
WhcYvonne: 	okay...
HOST EBK Chip: 	Who is devouring the YA Buffy lineup like cereal-serial.
Araiused: 	LOL
WhcYvonne: 	Well, it's kind of a double-edged thing. It's less challenging in the sense that you have
Kakaze: 	Delice is leaving for the night.  She says bye, Brian, Yvonne!
WhcYvonne: 	to use their characters and stay within their guidelines.
WhcYvonne: 	On the other hand, that makes it a little bit more of a challenge to come up with new
WhcYvonne: 	ideas for it -- those same limitations actually place more of a burden on the writer.
HOST EBK Chip: 	That would have been my thought.  Working creatively
HOST EBK Chip: 	within a straight-jacket takes more mental athleticism,
HOST EBK Chip: 	sometimes.
Kakaze: 	?
HOST EBK Chip: 	G'head, Kak.
WhcYvonne: 	When I was twelve I was reading adult novels.
WhcYvonne: 	Adult horror novels, besides.
Kakaze: 	Okay, on the subject of writing Buffy books...how is your writing different from fan fiction aside from the fact that it's endorced by the Buffy people?  And do you condone fan fic? 
T83BIRD: 	? 
Kakaze: 	I ask this after having gotten into a debate about it at a forum recently.
WhcYvonne: 	Besides that, they do keep them pretty clean in regards to language and relationships --
WhcYvonne: 	they don't really go into the amount of detail that adult novels do.
Kakaze: 	Some authors don't believe in it.
Araiused: 	brb
WhcYvonne: 	Well, a lot of it probably has to do with all the years that I've been writing -- since
WhcYvonne: 	1982, so maybe it's an experience thing.
WhcYvonne: 	I don't see anything wrong with fan fiction -- I think it's a great way to learn.
Kakaze: 	?
WhcYvonne: 	I got an email from a 13 year old girl the other day who's written sevearl Buffy stories
WhcYvonne: 	and posted them on her site. They're a
WhcYvonne: 	little rough around the edges but they show great promise. She needs a bit more experience
WhcYvonne: 	with polishing up the language and punctuation,
WhcYvonne: 	etc., but given a few years, she could be really good at writing.
WhcYvonne: 	Okay...next question?
HOST EBK Chip: 	T8?
T83BIRD: 	Von, did the Arabian Nights infuence you at all?
WhcYvonne: 	No, not really.
T83BIRD: 	Just wondered.  Thanks anyway.
Araiused: 	bak
WhcYvonne: 	Next?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Kak?
Kakaze: 	Back to fan fic again, sorry...what about the liability issues that come with it?
WhcYvonne: 	Well, unless the copyright holder cracks down, I'm not sure there are any liability
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WhcYvonne: 	issues... PROVIDED you don't try to self-publish or
Athanor IX: 	Hi.
WhcYvonne: 	sell the fiction. Only the copyright holder has the right to do that.
Araiused: 	Hi, Ath
Kakaze: 	And if a fan fic idea shows up in an authorised publication?
WhcYvonne: 	Big corporations tend to take a dim view of people making "free" money off their property.
T83BIRD: 	Thanks, Von and our other guests.  Must leave now.  Please come again, all of you.  Thanks, Chip. 'Nite all.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Night, T8!
Araiused: 	Goodnight, T
JDipale: 	Bye T
Kakaze: 	Night T!
BLR WIZ: 	Bye T
WhcYvonne: 	here's really nothing you can do about it. But also keep in mind that because of the
WhcYvonne: 	limitation on the universe, it really is quite
WhcYvonne: 	likely that someone already thought of it. I've heard of this happening in Star Trek,
WhcYvonne: 	where the author questioned it (he submitted a script idea
WhcYvonne: 	which was rejected and later made into an episode). The Star Trek people were able to
WhcYvonne: 	document that the idea had been submitted quite some time
WhcYvonne: 	before this person had submitted it.
Kakaze: 	Ah.  I see.  Thank you!
WhcYvonne: 	And a question here from Cybling:
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HOST EBK Chip: 	Yup.  ST plagiarism hits 'em right in the Pocket Book. 
Araiused: 	LOL, Shadow
Kakaze: 	Do they even accept unsolicited scripts for ST anymore?  I remember they did at one point.
Araiused: 	Long day, Yvonne?  
WhcYvonne: 	Jan asks:  Can you tell us a little about your book that is partially available for download on my site?
WhcYvonne: 	Ah, MIRROR ME.
WhcYvonne: 	MIRROR ME is the solo novel I just completed a couple of months ago, which as of right now
WhcYvonne: 	is not yet sold.
WhcYvonne: 	It's about a young woman who takes on the wounds of certain murder and assault victims
WhcYvonne: 	around Chicago.
WhcYvonne: 	The question is why these CERTAIN people and how are they connected to her.
WhcYvonne: 	She can live through almost anything -- having her throat cut, a gunshot to the head, stab
WhcYvonne: 	wounds -- and survive, but only because these
WhcYvonne: 	things are happening to those other people.
WhcYvonne: 	If she's wounded herself, of course, she injures as much as the next person. These other
WhcYvonne: 	injuries heal at an incredibly fast rate.
WhcYvonne: 	Are there any final questions?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Sounds like a stigmatism.  
Araiused: 	LOL
Kakaze: 	Reminds me of that ep of ST:TOS/
Kakaze: 	The Empath.
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Kakaze: 	Dog!
WhcYvonne: 	Folks can read a big chunk of it at http://www.yvonnenavarro.com/mirrorme.htm
Araiused: 	Woof, Sci!
SciFiDog: 	am I fashionably late? WOOF!
WhcYvonne: 	On that page is a link to a pdf file that has about 60 or so pages from the first part of
WhcYvonne: 	the book.
Araiused: 	Turn on the camera, Sci
Kakaze: 	How big is the book?
WhcYvonne: 	If anyone's around the convention tomorrow (Friday), at 3:00 p.m. I'll be reading about 13
WhcYvonne: 	pages from a section more in the middle of it. Come and listen.  
WhcYvonne: 	If I remember correctly, it's about 420 pages or so, 120,000 words.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Average length, by recent standards.
Kakaze: 	:sigh:  I envy novelists.
WhcYvonne: 	Okay, everyone, time to get back to the convention. Thanks for having me, and listening to
WhcYvonne: 	me ramble on!
WhcYvonne: 	And Beth Gwinn is up next!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Thanks, Yvonne!
Araiused: 	Goodnight, Yvonne!
OnlineHost: 	WhcYvonne has left the room.
JDipale: 	Thanks Von for stopping by
Kakaze: 	Too late.
Kakaze: 	I'm gonna head out.
Kakaze: 	Night all!
Kakaze: 	Slan slan!
HOST EBK Chip: 	:::puuting away bust of Navarro, and dusting off bust of Gwinn:::
Araiused: 	Goodnight,Kak
HOST EBK Chip: 	Night, Kak.
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Araiused: 	LOL, Shadow
HOST EBK Chip: 	Hiya Beth!
JDipale: 	Hi Beth!
Araiused: 	Hi, Beth!
BLR WIZ: 	Hi Beth
WhcBeth: 	Hi Folks!
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Araiused: 	FIGGY!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Photographers make me shutter.
SciFiDog: 	LOL
HOST EBK Chip: 	Hi FIJ!
Araiused: 	LOLOL
JDipale: 	LOL
Araiused: 	How are the moofes, Figgy?
WhcBeth: 	LOL
WhcBeth: 	LOL
BLR WIZ: 	lol
WhcBeth: 	How are you all doing toinght?
SciFiDog: 	all good here
Araiused: 	Swell, Beth
HOST EBK Chip: 	Jes' fine, Beth.  How's the con?
WhcBeth: 	Good to hear.
WhcBeth: 	So far...
WhcBeth: 	I've heard that the con is running like a clock.
FIJAGDH: 	On its hand and face?
WhcBeth: 	It's been good for me so far. I've just been showing up when they ask me too.
Araiused: 	Figgy just spoke  
Araiused: 	What's that on the pic, Beth?
SciFiDog: 	? (!)
WhcBeth: 	Someone over in Cybling asked me what it's like being GOH of Photography.
WhcBeth: 	and....
WhcBeth: 	This is my first convention of any kind to be a quest at. So it's been nice and seems less
WhcBeth: 	stressful to me. I've had to be at events, just
WhcBeth: 	because I'm a guest. Which is very different from when I'm here working the events and
OnlineHost: 	Gandalara has left the room.
WhcBeth: 	have to be there to take photos.
WhcBeth: 	I expect this will be my one shot at being a guest. So I'm attempting to enjoy it as I
WhcBeth: 	can.
WhcBeth: 	Questions about the Con?  Anything?
JDipale: 	You deserve it, Beth!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Dog?
SciFiDog: 	well, you answered ny Q? (! Chips cam pic means: "Hey!!! Everyone's breaking the dang rules!!! )
JDipale: 	?
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOL
HOST EBK Chip: 	JD?
Araiused: 	?
JDipale: 	any sequels planed for Dark Dreamers?
JDipale: 	any authors you didn't get to do?
WhcBeth: 	OKI
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Araiused: 	Hi, TC!
TCoehoorn: 	hi room
HOST EBK Chip: 	Being a guest takes away all the individualized strees over
HOST EBK Chip: 	whether you should attend the "Satanism and Microsoft" or
HOST EBK Chip: 	"Contemporary coiffure for Vampires" panels.
WhcBeth: 	Yes there are some who are here this weekend. Because I'm trying to have a good time. I
WhcBeth: 	haven't even thought about hitting them up to
Araiused: 	LOLOL
WhcBeth: 	photograph them. The only person right now that I need to do that with is Gene Wolfe.
JDipale: 	Ah, cool!
Araiused: 	Why him,  Beth?
HOST EBK Chip: 	He's a nice guy.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Showed us pictures of his grandkids last time i met him.
Araiused: 	You still has to do a chat with him, Shadow  
HOST EBK Chip: 	He needs to get internet.
WhcBeth: 	Because Locus is interviewing him. So I need to do some new photos
WhcBeth: 	for them to use. I must admit, I've photographed Gene before. He's not what I'd call an
WhcBeth: 	easy subject.
JDipale: 	Spill the beans!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Hat shadows?
SciFiDog: 	Do TELL!  Gossippy stories are what we live for
Araiused: 	LOL
WhcBeth: 	He is a nice guy when I've photographed him. He just is hard to get different looks and
WhcBeth: 	expressions out of.
Araiused: 	Beth is pursing her lips  
OnlineHost: 	FIJAGDH has left the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	FIJ has offended the cable gods again.
WhcBeth: 	lol
Araiused: 	Figgy still has the mooficitis
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Araiused: 	Hi, Tom!
TomFODW: 	hi ara
TomFODW: 	hi everyone
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WhcBeth: 	I'm horrible at gossip. I never remember it. Let me think. Gee,
WhcBeth: 	I just can't remember anything good.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Just make something up, then.  
SciFiDog: 	(pants on fire. ) :-)
BLR WIZ: 	Then how about something bad?
Araiused: 	LOLOL
HOST EBK Chip: 	We'll handle its dispersal afterwards.  
WhcBeth: 	Did you know that Yvonne is engaged to Weston?
HOST EBK Chip: 	No!!
Araiused: 	Noooooo
SciFiDog: 	woah. thats a good start.
JDipale: 	NO!!!
WhcBeth: 	lol
WhcBeth: 	YES!
JDipale: 	COOL!!!
Araiused: 	Oh, that's why all the schmooches
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOLOL
SciFiDog: 	Clearly... we have not been asking the right questions.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Gotic wedding in the offing?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Gothic, even.
Araiused: 	LOL
WhcBeth: 	I got to drive Gahan Wilson and Neil Gaiman to the signing at the Library. We got lost
WhcBeth: 	going to it and lost coming back
SciFiDog: 	And you Beth???  HMMMM?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Gaiman's cute, too.  I have this on good authority from a female.  
SciFiDog: 	( LOL. )  
WhcBeth: 	Me? I don't do nothing wrong. At least in my universe.
WhcBeth: 	Neil is a cutie and a sweetie too.
SciFiDog: 	( Lets start a lost-on-purpose rumor? <g>)
WhcBeth: 	I have a very high opinion of him.
OnlineHost: 	TAMirabile has entered the room.
Araiused: 	Hi, TAM
TAMirabile: 	Hi, Ara!
SciFiDog: 	?
JDipale: 	Hi TAM
HOST EBK Chip: 	SciFi?
SciFiDog: 	What do they make a GOH do, exactly???
WhcBeth: 	It's ok but we were
WhcBeth: 	Neil wasn't in the car on the way back. Just Gahan, Ellen Datlow, and Karen somebody.
WhcBeth: 	we were
WhcBeth: 	fol
WhcBeth: 	Hmmm....following Gene Wolfe's car.  He knew less how to get there than we did.
SciFiDog: 	rotfl
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOL
BLR WIZ: 	lol
Araiused: 	LOL
WhcBeth: 	I have to show up at Opening cermonies, I have to do walk throughs of my photographs and
WhcBeth: 	talk about them. I have to be on some panels, usually I avoid panels. I'm not a really
WhcBeth: 	verbal person. So I tend to sit on panels and not say much.
WhcBeth: 	of my photographs and talk about them. I have to be on some panels,
WhcBeth: 	I also have to show up at closing ceremonies as well.
WhcBeth: 	I also went out and bought myself a map of Chicago so that this lost business, willn't happen again.
SciFiDog: 	Yikes!  Next time... make Chip give you drinks first... you'll talk.
SciFiDog: 	( then the driving will be problematic, however.)
WhcBeth: 	I don't drink. I willn't be on any panels at conjose.
SciFiDog: 	are you going?
WhcBeth: 	I don't like the taste of liquor...
WhcBeth: 	The only liquors I like are like Bailey's Irish Cream and really sweet stuff like that.
WhcBeth: 	Yes I will be there, somewhere.
WhcBeth: 	Questions?
JDipale: 	OWC Group Photo!!!
SciFiDog: 	(ick.  well, there's always weed and pills. LOL)
Araiused: 	Nice t-shirt, Beth  
HOST EBK Chip: 	And Everclear IVs.
TCoehoorn: 	follow everyone else from chicago to wisconsin and youll learn to drink
Araiused: 	LOL, TC
HOST EBK Chip: 	We'll need another group photo...sure.
Araiused: 	Thursdays, Shadow?
WhcBeth: 	I gave up weed a long time ago and pills?  I have anti-depressants for pills.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Someone will have to arrange that with Beth.  Right, Ara?  
WhcBeth: 	Thank you Ara.  Ididn't know that you could see it.
Araiused: 	Moi?
JDipale: 	Yeah, Right Ara?
Araiused: 	Have you here on my right side, Beth  
WhcBeth: 	I doubt that.  If I haven't started by now.  I don't think it's going to happen.
Araiused: 	What, JD?
JDipale: 	Someone's gotta arrange the photo
WhcBeth: 	Questions folks?  It's getting late here.
Araiused: 	What is not going to happen?\
WhcBeth: 	I have a photo walkthrough early tomorrow.
BLR WIZ: 	?
HOST EBK Chip: 	BLR?
WhcBeth: 	OKay!
BLR WIZ: 	What kind of fim do you use?
Araiused: 	Still getting used to this laptop touchpad :/
OnlineHost: 	Tori N Bama has entered the room.
Araiused: 	Hi, Tori
SciFiDog: 	peace
Tori N Bama: 	hi there
WhcBeth: 	Depends on what I'm doing.
WhcBeth: 	Here lately since Locus has gone to mostly color, I've been...
WhcBeth: 	using a lot of the Kodak Provia.
WhcBeth: 	For the flash stuff I use the Kodak 800 provia.
WhcBeth: 	I still love B&W, but there isn't much of a market for that.
WhcBeth: 	Any final questions?
TCoehoorn: 	?
HOST EBK Chip: 	TC?
TCoehoorn: 	is it still fun for you or just a job?
HOST EBK Chip: 	BTW, Beth...loved the Malzberg photo this month.
OnlineHost: 	Tori N Bama has left the room.
WhcBeth: 	Good question.
OnlineHost: 	Patterner has entered the room.
Araiused: 	Hi, Patt
Patterner: 	Hi folks!
WhcBeth: 	When I'm covering an event...such as a convention...
WhcBeth: 	it is a job.  I still love playing around with people and trying to be creative with my work...
WhcBeth: 	when it is me working with them.  Like my book.  I love doing that.
WhcBeth: 	Final finals?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Going?
SciFiDog: 	(do tell when the book will be finished/out.)
OnlineHost: 	Patterner has left the room.
OnlineHost: 	Patterner has entered the room.
Patterner: 	Wrong button!
TCoehoorn: 	came in late ...please post book title again
Araiused: 	Dark Dreamers
TCoehoorn: 	thanx
WhcBeth: 	The book is here.  Amazon.com...
WhcBeth: 	and Barnes and Noble.com have it.
BLR WIZ: 	?
WhcBeth: 	Dark Dreamers, Facing the Masters of Fear.  Is the name of the book.
JDipale: 	Or pick it up at a con, and have Beth sign it!
SciFiDog: 	( cool. another followup? I believe JD asked earlier.)
WhcBeth: 	And if you go to the WHC2002.org website you can see part of it under my name.
WhcBeth: 	And there's my new Web address:
WhcBeth: 	www.BETHGWINN.com
JDipale: 	COOL!
Araiused: 	BLR?
BLR WIZ: 	Is the book in SF or Photography?
TAMirabile: 	Nothing like having a hard to remember URL
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOL
WhcBeth: 	lol
WhcBeth: 	It is photographs of Horror authors, artist, filmmakers, and one actor.
BLR WIZ: 	Thx
WhcBeth: 	I'm work
HOST EBK Chip: 	Any last, last, final questions/
WhcBeth: 	I'm working on sf to be the next one.  Ask me in another year how it is going.
WhcBeth: 	Thank you everyone!
JDipale: 	Thanks Beth!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Thanks, Beth!
WhcBeth: 	Take care!  Good night to all!
TAMirabile: 	Thanks, Beth!
JDipale: 	See you at Con Jose!!!
Araiused: 	Thank you, Beth!
WhcBeth: 	Outa here.
OnlineHost: 	WhcBeth has left the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	As you were, soldiers.
Araiused: 	LOL
Araiused: 	Heh, no moof tonight  
BLR WIZ: 	Smoke em if you got em.
HOST EBK Chip: 	We have 15 minutes left.  Who's buying?
SciFiDog: 	at ease, sir.
Araiused: 	Beth is still on camera  
BLR WIZ: 	Beer for everyone......  
BLR WIZ: 	c(_)  c(_)  c(_)  c(_)
BLR WIZ: 	My Home Made Wine For The Others....
BLR WIZ: 	\~~/  \~~/  \~~/  \~~/
BLR WIZ: 	  V     V      V      V
BLR WIZ: 	  T      T      T       T
BLR WIZ: 	  /\      /\      /\      /\
HOST EBK Chip: 	Thanks, BLR!  
BLR WIZ: 	Any time   
TAMirabile: 	Now I'll sleep well     
Araiused: 	Expecting a picture of a Xerpie soon  
HOST EBK Chip: 	Comments, questions, criticisms, gossip?
JDipale: 	LOL
HOST EBK Chip: 	lolol
SciFiDog: 	its all good.
JDipale: 	Have a good evening everyone!!!
Araiused: 	I can still see Beth
HOST EBK Chip: 	You too, JD!
TAMirabile: 	Night JD
Araiused: 	Goodnight, JD!
OnlineHost: 	JDipale has left the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Really focused on that webcam, eh, Ara?  
TAMirabile: 	Forgot to turn the camera off       that's scary
Araiused: 	Yeah, Shadow
HOST EBK Chip: 	Is she moving?
Araiused: 	Yep
HOST EBK Chip: 	Good.  
BLR WIZ: 	What is the url for the webcam?
Araiused: 	LOLOL
TCoehoorn: 	used to read horror ..then got married and had to balance joint account, now i stick w/ scoobie do for fright  night
Araiused: 	www.cybling.com/webcam.html
SciFiDog: 	me too.. still see beth... get on the cam, chip! :-D
Araiused: 	I think
HOST EBK Chip: 	cybling.com/bbb.chat.html
Araiused: 	You have to go to chat site first
BLR WIZ: 	Thx
Araiused: 	LOL, T 
Araiused: 	C
HOST EBK Chip: 	Ummm...Chip isn't onsite, SciFi.  She's asleep in the bed across the room from me.  
BLR WIZ: 	I haven't been to cyblings for a while.
HOST EBK Chip: 	And I'm at home.  
Araiused: 	Early to bed, Shadow?
SciFiDog: 	Feh. cam would be even better there. LOLOL
BLR WIZ: 	You have your computer in the bedroom?   kinky
HOST EBK Chip: 	Work tomorrow...she gets up at 6:15
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOLOL, SciFi.
HOST EBK Chip: 	One of 'em, BLR.
Athanor IX: 	::shudders::
SciFiDog: 	as ET said, "Ouuuuuccccch."
BLR WIZ: 	lol Scu
BLR WIZ: 	Sci even
Araiused: 	That's real early
HOST EBK Chip: 	I get up at 6:45..so I can stay up *hous* longer.  
HOST EBK Chip: 	hours, too.
SciFiDog: 	lolol
Araiused: 	The alarm clock goes off at 7
Araiused: 	I wait until 7:15
BLR WIZ: 	lol
SciFiDog: 	ara.. and you get up at nine? <w>
Araiused: 	to get up
HOST EBK Chip: 	Chip wandered off at about 10:30 tonight.  We didn't see the need to change names.
Araiused: 	7, Sci
Araiused: 	Work is at 8:30
SciFiDog: 	ya fooled me.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Clouded your mind, SciFi.
Patterner: 	I got up at about 10pm, but I went to bed about
Patterner: 	4pm.  I'll have to sleep more tonight -- I have
Patterner: 	the appt at 2:10pm tomorrow and I need to be
Patterner: 	awake enough to drive home after.
BLR WIZ: 	A side effect of being married Sci.
SciFiDog: 	I almost fell in like with you... chick bias, i suppose. LOLOL
HOST EBK Chip: 	There ya go.  Now you know.  
TCoehoorn: 	im up at 430 feed peacocks, dogs, cat and horses and start job at 6
SciFiDog: 	( crossing body parts for you, P@.)
Araiused: 	Wow, TC
Patterner: 	Thanks, Sci!
TAMirabile: 	Me too
HOST EBK Chip: 	With which doctor, Patt?
BLR WIZ: 	I used to get up at 7:00 and be at work at 7:30
SciFiDog: 	witchdoctor, Chiplike creature?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Shaman you, SciFi!
Araiused: 	LOL
Patterner: 	I have the echo tomorrow at Penderbrook.
TCoehoorn: 	holy punnight calahan
Patterner: 	I expect to have a cardiologist after that.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Tell them I said Hi.  I know them up there now.  
Patterner: 	LOL!
SciFiDog: 	P@ would gladly see a witchdoctor if he'd read her whole chart. <g>
HOST EBK Chip: 	You have the NP Cardiologist?
Patterner: 	Really, Sci, at least we'd be talking about the
Patterner: 	same things.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Or, the cardiology NP, I guess.
BLR WIZ: 	Apollo 13 is on,  This is the right time of the year to show it.
Patterner: 	Well, tomorrow I just have the technician, but
Patterner: 	if it's CHF, I expect to acquire a cardiologist.
HOST EBK Chip: 	That would be a given.  Yup.
SciFiDog: 	CHF gives you ACS ( acquired cardiologist syndrome.)
TCoehoorn: 	well kitty decided ive been here to long and need a lap to shed on so ill be going...night room
HOST EBK Chip: 	LOL
BLR WIZ: 	Picturing a flock of cardiologists follwing 
BLR WIZ: 	Patt.  Hiding around the corner, under 
BLR WIZ: 	desks.......
Araiused: 	Nite, TC
OnlineHost: 	TCoehoorn has left the room.
TAMirabile: 	Night TC
HOST EBK Chip: 	Night, TC.
Patterner: 	LOL
SciFiDog: 	nite TC
Patterner: 	I'll be really surprised if it's not CHF.
TAMirabile: 	Eyes unfocusing here.   Good night.     Luck, Patt!!
Patterner: 	Night, TAM!  Thanks!
Araiused: 	Nite, TAM
TAMirabile: 	Thanks, "Chip"
SciFiDog: 	I hope its not failing... just getting a D-.
OnlineHost: 	TAMirabile has left the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Well, if it is, that will definitely give them more direction than they've had, of late.
Patterner: 	Yep.  And that would be helpful.
OnlineHost: 	Athanor IX has left the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	My father was up there today.
Patterner: 	I've gotten to where just walking from the
Patterner: 	kitchen to the bedroom makes me SOB and
Patterner: 	tachycardic.
Patterner: 	Just a checkup?
Patterner: 	Good thing there's places to lie down at each
Patterner: 	end of the condo.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Yup.  They discovered that one of his heart meds was affecting kidney function.
Patterner: 	So is there an alternate med?
HOST EBK Chip: 	Yup...they started him on it.
Patterner: 	Good.
HOST EBK Chip: 	He's had an elevated creatin number ever since his surgery.
HOST EBK Chip: 	No-one knew why.
Patterner: 	Good thing they figured it out!
HOST EBK Chip: 	Let me know what they tell you.
Araiused: 	Thanks, Shadow!
BLR WIZ: 	Thanks for the horrible chat Chip/Shadow.  Good Luck Patt.  Night All
HOST EBK Chip: 	Night, Ara!
Patterner: 	I will, thought I'd stop by the store on the way
Patterner: 	home.
Araiused: 	Goodnight, all!
SciFiDog: 	Its that time.  Thanks Chip, and ChipMonk.. and hang in thar P@.  Goodnight.
Patterner: 	See y'all tomorrow!
OnlineHost: 	Patterner has left the room.
OnlineHost: 	BLR WIZ has left the room.
HOST EBK Chip: 	Do.  I'll be out from about 12:30 'til 3.
SciFiDog: 	:-)
HOST EBK Chip: 	Night, SciFi, Ara!