Well, I just got to talk to Peter S. Beagle. Now I am BUZZED.

[dianeduane]

It'll all be here.

(BTW, is it just me, or are we having a solar flare / CME? It sure looks like one.)

Comments

[ashlupa.livejournal.com]

Looks like a CME on one side and a flare on the other. Maybe a followup to last week's storm?

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Definitely looks like a classic CME, although not headed in our direction directly. It shows up even better on the C2 (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-c2.html). The "flare" on the other side appears to be associated with the sunspot on the limb, or the disrupted area northeast of it (visible on the MDI Continuum (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-mdi_igr.html) images). My guess is that it's a nascent sunspot family.

[come-love-sleep.livejournal.com]

That was a lot of fun to listen to! Thanks for giving out the heads-up. I've loved Mr. Beagle's voice since I was a child, when I found a copy of the Last Unicorn on tape at the teeny local library.
(Your voice was surprisingly familiar, somehow.)

But yeah. That whole thing was like sitting in a corner in a ConSuite, listening and eating MnM's. Wonderful fun.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

It turned out even better than I thought it would. I was delighted for the chance to slip out of my Interviewer-Man costume into my secret identity as The-Fly-On-The-Wall during the discussions.

The whole thing should be available within about an hour or so. (If the version you get is incomplete, wait a while and download again; it seems to make the show available prematurely, while it's still being uploaded onto their servers from processing.) I'll be chopping it up into one-hour chunks and re-uploading it as separate episodes later this afternoon for more convenient listening.

[crissachappell.livejournal.com]

His work is so smart and philosophical. Lucky you!

[dorianegray.livejournal.com]

I just want to take the opportunity to shout "That's my spacecraft, that is!"

(I worked on Soho, and consequently feel very proprietorial towards it.)

[anamin.livejournal.com]

I envy you so badly right now.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Cool. We had dinner with Peter Beagle and Connor Cochran when they came to Capricon (http://www.capricon.org/capricon27/) last year. And they're returning to Chicago, next month.

[deire.livejournal.com]

How cool! He's Guest of Honor at a convention this fall with which I'm helping.

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

I should heap curses on your head, not only for cluing me in to listen to the talk in the first place, but for all of you being so interesting that I could. not. stop. listening long after I needed to go back to bed. One of the best interviews I've heard in a long time.

Can that really be true, about Audible taking 80+ percent of the income? (said in tone of utter disbelief that any author not already independently wealthy would sit still for that split)

[a-muse-d.livejournal.com]

that solar flare would explain why i felt out of whack today. damn radiation.