1) It is not an April Fools joke

2) When Rushdie canceled at Harbourfront they did do refunds.

3) Word down the line is that he may (and that's a very un-confirmable may) reschedule for May after he's back from Ireland

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Originally posted by kirkaholic:
1) It is not an April Fools joke

2) When Rushdie canceled at Harbourfront they did do refunds.

3) Word down the line is that he may (and that's a very un-confirmable may) reschedule for May after he's back from Ireland

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You are definately a good resource for intel.

Who is Kirkaholic?
And so well hooked-up...one can only wonder...just like WG

*blog snip*
I'm sorry to disappoint you, though. Sorry indeed. I know that some regular posters, in particular, were planning on turning up, and I've started looking forward to putting faces to the icons.


Yup, I was curious too...I always wondered how tall WG really is!



~cyn004

Everyone is someone elses freak ~unknown

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Harbourfront just called and gave me a refund.
Weird.

They just called me too. Go Harbourfront!

Now I can use my $$ to buy designer java!
AND have busfare to go home!

~cyn004

Everyone is someone elses freak ~unknown

And here I thought I was unlucky because I hadn't managed to get through to the box office for two weeks, until I finally broke down and called from work during my break, and the voice at the other end, as soon as I asked about Wednesday night, informed me that "one of the three writers has cancelled", and I spent his next three sentences listing the three names, going "Please don't let it be Gibson, please please please...."

"....The writer who has cancelled for Wednesday night is William Gibson."

Me: "Thanks." <click>

So of course, instead of concentrating on work I spent the rest of the afternoon considering various scenarios.

Scenario A involved my taking note of the date, but I decided against calling back the box office and asking them point blank if they thought turning away paying customers was a good practical joke. I felt the urge for about half-a-second, though I didn't act on it.

Scenario B was a bit more paranoid in nature, running along the lines of, "Elder gods, we must have scared him s**tless, he doesn't want to meet nutbars like us who argue about war and typos and what his favourite breakfast food is!" So I thought I'd get home, log in, and post a long-winded reply to the effect of: "They might be crazy, but I'm not!! I'm short and quiet (hardly ever speak a word), I'm nothing in person like I am on the Internet! Honest!!"

Which of course, would have made me look even more paranoid than I am. Definitely not a good strategy.

Scenario C was (naturally) "Something awful's happened, yikes!"

Looks like Plan C won out. Don't feel bad, Mister G., as I know from "hard experience" too, what cabin pressurization does to even healthy ear, nose and throat passages sometimes; I've got moderate to severe eustachian tube dysfunction (google it if you need the definition), which pretty much mitigates any air travel at all unless I'm heavily-medicated (Don't ask me how heavily-medicated, ask my friends. They've seen me under the influence, and can confirm it. In spades. ), although I've had some luck, the last couple of times, with those weird-ass-looking corkscrew earplugs you can buy in the drugstore now.

(Don't bother asking an ENT about them, they'll tell you you're insane and they don't work, can't possibly work, defy the laws of physics, yadda yadda yadda. In this case, the doctors don't know (insert your favourite four-letter word here). The moderate discomfort I get even with high doses of two different kinds of medication is completely eliminated with these things.)

Just to prove I'm not rambling on senselessly and self-centredly here when the poor guy is sick, the reason I mention these earplugs is because they look exactly like the old "hailing frequencies open Cap'n" device Uhura used to wear on Star Trek.

So, I hope the mental image of a slightly short, slightly quiet, science fiction fan, sitting white-knuckled on an airplane with two Star Trek Uhura-like communicators sticking out of both ears offers you a little "See? It can really be so much worse than you think!" empathy, Mister Gibson.

Oh, and Cyn; thanks for the offer of the extra ticket! I would have ending up spending all my spare change getting to and from the event; I work in Malton, and am only an hour or so from downtown, but I live in Brampton, so I would have had several hours on buses to get home to look forward to. Which explains why I won't be taking you up on it, even though John Gray is kind of cool, in an old-fashioned, downhomer sort of way. He's still not worth spending two and a half hours getting home for when I have to be up at five-thirty the following morning to get to work, I'm afraid.

Oh, and if anyone was flying in for the event, don't worry; it's only travellers going to/from international destinations who are getting the closest scrutiny. Like they said on the radio today, checking every single passenger coming in and out of Pearson would not only be unfeasible, it would be chaos.

Yelena

Will Mr. Gibson be rescheduling for a later date?

Yeah. What she asked.

Yelena

that motion.


~cyn004
www.transference.org

I know this might be a shot in the dark, but does anyone know if anything will be scheduled in Vancouver between October 27th-December 10th (dates within which I will be back in town)?