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Apostrophobia

After all this time I still make grammatical errors. Dont' blame me its' the school's's fault.

These guys don't though, a couple more reviews:

Forbidden Planet

Decoding Static, this blog was recently part of the A-Z of possible worlds tour. Send him your free books!

Thought Bubble: Trip Report

This was mostly a splendid weekend. Firstly many thanks to Rob Jackson who let me share his table, and helped to eek out those difficult few hours when the sales went dry (ask him about the tracker bar radio interview).

I'm chuffed I did the A4 stands, they really got peoples attention, as did the little postcard drawings (enjoyed doing the Sid James especially). They didn't alway convert to a sale, but that might have been because my eyes were nervously boring into them. A tank of thank to everyone who bought a book!

The casino was a strange venue for the aftershow party, but great fun nontheless. The inflated price of bad beer should have been prohibitive, but it didn't stop me overindulging, nor my setting the dance floor alight later on(wince).

The burlesque drawing sounded interesting, though I can't decide where it lies on the scale between art and perving.

Could have always sold more books but I covered the table costs, but not the holiday inn, train, sandwiches, pizza, £3.60 pints of fosters, books (yet to read), tracker bars, ginger nuts, seedless grapes, 2 large cups of railway station tea and a cookie.

Best con yet.

Thought Bubble!

Well I'm rather looking forward to Thought Bubble this weekend. Mostly sorted, but it's important that some things are left until the day before eh? I've probably decided not to dress as Captain Cantaloupe for the festival, favouring perhaps a sweater and slacks. Rob Jackson however, still intends to go dressed as a giant frog wizard, as usual.

I'm reliably informed that the weather is going to be splendid....

Gaahh! Sorrow! Pain!

Another failed submission to coveredblog. I don't think I gave anything different in essence to the original so I'm not suprised, and the bar is set so high anyway. Ho hum.

The main reason I did this was that I needed to organise myself for Thought Bubble next weekend and I have a Geoscientist deadline looming, hence it was important to do something else completely. I'll probably try again when I have some more deadlines in the future.

Hello

Would you like to buy a clementine?

You know when you start doodling on a scrap of paper, like an envelope, then it starts to look alright? That's what happened here.

Thought Bubble

I've received my Thought Bubble pass from Rob Jackson, who I'll be sharing a table with. I'll be there selling Thomas Wogan is Dead among other things. This will be my third con as a seller and I'm looking forward to it immensely. Do pop by and say hello if you find yourself there, it's the 21st November. I'll be going dressed as a character this time, see above.

November Geoscientist

Here's the months edition. I got the idea when i saw a picture of a seal wearing various monitoring devices. I couldn't believe the weight the scientists were expecting it to carry and not affect its behaviour. I do give the Coelocanth a hard time in these cartoons don't I?

Swedehead

I'm glad I don't have a Swede for a head, it would upset me.