Not quite. But we understand that there is a photo of the Dream Café residents, along with the glorious Kij Johnson, in the June 8 issue of Locus (which should already be on the stands). The photo is from the Nebula Awards, which we crashed like the vicious party crashers we are.
Clockwise from Left: Reesa Brown, Steven Brust, Kij Johnson, Kit O’Connell and his hat. Photo by Liza Groen Trombi/Locus Publications.
We love, love, love this photo, both because of how photogenic we look and for the wonderful memories it brings back. We had a great time lurking about the bar and consuite and looking like we belonged there (Kij, of course, did belong there).
Alas, this issue of Locus (or Locus at all) is not available anywhere we can find in the Bryan/College Station area. We’d be really grateful if one our readers has a copy they’d be willing to pass on when they are done.
16 responses so far ↓
1 Eric // Jun 7, 2008 at 3:41 am
Whoops! Not 50 yards. That’s probably impossible. 50 FEET.
2 Eric // Jun 7, 2008 at 3:41 am
You look a hell of a lot like my stepfather in this picture, though he’s been beardless for the last few years at the request of my mother.
This is not a bad thing. My stepfather is a good enough shot to light a match at 50 yards with a rifle. And growing up in the Ozarks, he once stepped outside to feed the cows and discovered a bear on the porch. Rather than tell his grandfather why he hadn’t gone to feed the cows, he simply said “Ah, I don’t feel like it,” took the whipping, and waited to see what would happen when his grandfather stepped outside onto the porch.
The resolution involved a shotgun filled with rock salt.
I don’t know that these sorts of things happen any more in this country, or frankly in this world. My stepfather also grew up speaking only Cherokee. He’s an interesting dude.
All of which is to say that when I compare you to him, I think you’re very very cool.
3 Eric // Jun 7, 2008 at 3:42 am
Er… those came out backwards. I don’t know what happened there. Sorry.
4 GWW // Jun 7, 2008 at 4:00 am
Um… I can kinda see why people say Steve looks like Alan Rickman. I’ve never thought it before, but that picture really kinda makes me feel otherwise.
No offense Steve.
And Kit… dude… that hat… that’s the most badass hat that’s ever existed. I wouldn’t have thought there was a man alive that could pull off wearing something like that.
Must look cool under a blacklight. You need to have someone following you around all the time holding a blacklight over your head just so you glow in the dark.
5 kit // Jun 7, 2008 at 5:17 am
Eric@2: Thank you for the great story and the flattering comparison. Your stepfather sounds like a fascinating guy.
Gww@4: Why thank you! I have a collection of improbably awesome hats and other clothing that probably only I can pull off. It’s a super power of mine, I think.
That particular hat was acquired at a free costume shop (”Everything Must Go! No Donations, No Returns!”) on the playa at Burning Man 2004. It’s getting a little worn in places. I actually wear it out a lot, so I’ve come to think of it as my everyday hat. Here I am in an even more outlandish hat.
When I become insanely rich and famous, you can be the first in line for the position of ‘Blacklight Caddy’.
6 reesa // Jun 7, 2008 at 11:36 am
I love the look on Kij’s face–amused yet interested. It also rather looks as if she is growing out of your fabulous hat. But then again I developed a massive crush on Kij from interacting with her at the Nebulas, which I assume happens to her all the time, given her innate awesomeness. Go read her stuff! Oh yeah, ours too.
7 Steph // Jun 7, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Looks like someone’s enjoying…a Shiner Bock?
Or that other beer I can’ t remember the name of right now.
8 Rene // Jun 7, 2008 at 1:41 pm
You guys look like you’re having a great time. That absolutely is an amazing hat. :)
9 skzb // Jun 7, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I would just like to say that when I entered into this living arrangement, I was aware of the possibility of being out-sexed, and I was even comfortable with the probability of being out-written; but I never thought I was going to have to face being out-hatted.
I’ll find a way to live with it.
10 kit // Jun 8, 2008 at 12:46 am
Steph@7: Yes, it was a Shiner. Steve has discovered he likes it since coming to Texas.
Punalua: Your hat is awesome too, just more subdued. Its like the hidden, deeper awesomeness besides the superficial flash of my haberdashery.
Or you can keep telling yourself that anyway.
11 GWW // Jun 8, 2008 at 3:14 am
Your hat’s good Steve. It’s a mighty daring and dashing piece of headgear that you still have to have a certain personality to get away with.
But the other hat they should write stage plays about.
Kit O’Connell and the Fluorocolored Pimphat.
You could pimp slap that one guy in the technicolor coat all the way to the bank.
12 Chris // Jun 8, 2008 at 7:10 pm
And what was Steve saying?
13 Kimberly // Jun 9, 2008 at 6:12 am
“but I never thought I was going to have to face being out-hatted.”
Poor Steve. ::consoling shoulder pat::
I like Steve’s hat better. For one thing, looking at Kit’s hat makes me slightly seasick . For another, Steve’s hat looks like something Vlad might have worn so Loiosh could ride on his shoulder more easily, before Rocza came along.
14 Ker_Thwap // Jun 9, 2008 at 7:51 am
Steve’s hat shows a certain flair, few people could pull off that hat off for an everyday look. I might attempt such a hat at a Renn fair.
Kit’s hat? Probably more appropriate in a room full of very drunk convention goers. It’s more of a novelty town fair look for the kids. Sorry to be hating on your hat.
15 Andrea // Jun 9, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Hey Steve, Great Picture its your neice. Would you please email me, Thank you =) Says email is required but not shown, so I suppose you will have my email address thru this post, Cheers
16 skzb // Jun 10, 2008 at 12:58 pm
For whatever reason, your email didn’t show up.
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