Joshua Thorin Messer

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Spooky

August 10, 2007 · 0 comments

William Gibson is extremely thin. Shockingly thin.

He also looks like he’s missing his front teeth, although he isn’t. This is hard to describe.

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My New Uncle Bill

August 10, 2007 · 0 comments

William Gibson’s book tour is coming to Vroman’s in Pasadena tonight @ 7pm (thanks to Keith for the head’s up). I’m clearly living in the wrong place as he’s doing 4 signings in the Bay and only one near LA. I was shocked and dismayed to find I don’t even have a copy of Neuromancer or Count Zero anymore. No Burning Chrome either. And I found out my copy of Pattern Recognition is a second printing! Scandalous.

Looking back over my life, at times I really regret not having 75USD to spend on a very fine First of Neuromancer back in Ann Arbor in ‘97.

And at other times I wish I didn’t have that irrational collector strain in my makeup.