Mr. G just blogged on the black Buzz Ricksons.

Y'know, it's kinda refreshing to know that he's at home with his wife and children on New Years. I mean, of course, where else would a novelist be, right? But it's just nice to know that the man has his center.

Happy New Year, Bill. Take care and do good work!

Interesting blog entry. It's nice to know the story behind Cayce's MA-1.

Oh - and a happy new year to WG and family (if you're reading this).

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Originally posted by xen0phile:
Mr. G just blogged on the black Buzz Ricksons.

I love his line about 'Nobody outside of Japan is very interested in paying for that, they told me, smiling. They have found their niche-market, bigtime.'

Ricksons is one of a number of brands made by a company called Toyo Manufacturing & they are equally obsessive about all their other products. Years before I had heard of Ricksons I encountered their Aloha shirts whilst in Tokyo and fell in lust with them. Like the Ricksons, they are stitch for stitch replicas of the originals. Being the obsessive type I am, I started to collect them & wear little else when the weather allows.

Whenever I wear them they automatically generate 2 questions and an exclamation. It usually goes like this.

'Great shirt, where did you get it?'
'How much are they?'
'WHAT!!!'

I can back up Bill's endorsement of the Rickson MA-1; it is made like no other garment I own, it is so heavy that I wonder if it is actually bulletproof.

I don't know if any of you remember the great Tate Museum/Olive Oil scandal of 2005, this is moi in the midst of the event wearing my PR MA-1



LN

Happy New Year to our host.

Had I the means to pick up something that had been so obseesively detailed in its creation (or reproduction), I would not hesitate to do so if it appealed to me. Really, it is a pleasure to see that people strive to that level of attention to detail in what they make.

Same here.

I'm confused. I have a distinct sense of deja vu with that blog post. I'm sure he's explained it all before. Maybe it was at the PR reading in London, but that seems to be too early for that sort of discussion. I still have the whole thing on mini-disc, but of course I no longer have an MD player. I can't remember if I converted the Q&A to MP3, and if I did, it's sitting on an unused PC.

My B15d is a little short in the back. As LN stated, it is so thick it feels bullet proof. It is also so warm that most of the time I can't wear it. I am tempted to put patches on it, but I will probably put them on my old leather bomber-style jacket.

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Originally posted by Kradlum:
I'm confused. I have a distinct sense of deja vu with that blog post. I'm sure he's explained it all before.

March 26, 2003 blog entry
(He doesn't talk about the choice of color though)

Happy New Year to everyone and especially our host!

Happy New Year, Mr. G! Many thanks for all the stories (even the little ones in the blog) and for the clean, well-lighted place you've given us here.

My goodness, no one is safe from FashPo's wrath! Use the FIND function newb!

I guess there's a reason they keep hiring me for those library jobs. No one is safe when I've got a search engine at my disposal.

Happy New Year WG!

Wishing you the best of luck on the novel you are working on, and crossing my fingers that it will be pre-launched in Copenhagen, like it was last time.

NEO-CRAP? NOPE!

Copenhagen? Ha!

A new novel deserves to be launched in a new hemisphere. And Melbourne's a very literary town.

Let's not forget the importance of convenience in a busy author's schedule. Seattle is just down the road, and offers a variety of comfortable hotels and excellent restaurants with non-cannibal menus. Not to mention that Seattle's downtown area is flush with high-tech companies, all of which contribute to the air a certain homey, long-chain kind of smell which we know he likes.

Careful, Colin. We don't really know, for certain, that Mr. G likes the long-chain odor of technology. Just because he uses it as a literary device in some of his past work doesn't necessarily mean he's got a hard-on for it. After all, by the logic you propose, Stephen King must be a sucker for the local slaughter house or morgue. From what I've been able to gather, Mr. G's tastes center more on fashion and... style.

In the end, though, it's not the author who gets to pick where his/her work will be pre-launched. Hell, I'd be extremely surprised if the author is even consulted on the matter.

A few days ago, I've shown Wanderer the infamous WG-as-a-hippie video.
The Man is clearly an expert at following the fashion of his time.
^^

I'm as happy as the next guy to be mistaken for Splitcoil, but I'm teh colin.

I don't even wear hats.

Ouch. Corrected on one's own blog.
If that doesn't send him running to his basement to write, nothing else will. Good work, FP! : )

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Just because he uses it as a literary device in some of his past work doesn't necessarily mean he's got a hard-on for it.

Okay, fine, then I'll take him to the Lusty Lady. There are no doubt some fashion statements to be observed from behind the streaked, breath-fogged glass.

And as he says, I'm not colin.

I'm Bravus.