{"id":1711,"date":"2009-10-20T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T01:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2009-10-21T17:52:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T01:52:14","slug":"cruz-rave-demons-night-parade-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/cruz-rave-demons-night-parade-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Rave, Demons’ Night Parade, Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day we were in Santa Cruz, and we came across a rave-like street party, it was kind of an after-party for Burning Man. <\/p>\n

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I took a few pictures, and I\u2019m going to mix them in with some pictures that I snarfed today from a Japanese yokai <\/em>or \u201cmythic monster\u201d\u009d scroll showing the \u201cDemons\u2019 Night Parade.\u201d\u009d Note that the picture below shows a demon studying a scroll! <\/p>\n

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A fan named Lex Berman sent me a link to a BoingBoing post <\/a>about this scroll, and I found a fairly complete copy of this scroll on eBay<\/a>, where it\u2019s for sale for $15,000, which, in a way, isn\u2019t that bad a price considering how great it is. <\/p>\n

Speaking of scrolls, my daughter Isabel Rucker has an art show coming up in San Francisco, starting on Thursday, November 5, 2009. She’s drawn a 400 foot long (!) scroll, somewhat autobiographical, a graphic novel in one piece, it’s called “Unfurling<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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So as to keep these images out where I can find them again, I saved off the page as an 8 megabyte PDF file that I posted <\/a>on my website. And I\u2019ll post a few of the frames here today, I think they go well with the rave party.<\/p>\n

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And what am I up to otherwise? I\u2019m working on my two book projects, that is, my memoir and my new SF novel. It looks like I\u2019ve found a good publisher for the memoir, I\u2019ll tell more about when the deal is actually signed.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m still working on getting a publisher for Jim and the Flims<\/em>, and I’ll keep you posted on that. I’m thinking of changing Jim from being a 60 year old to being a 30 year old…that’s probably a better move in terms of appealing to the target audience. And actually it wouldn’t be that hard to do.<\/p>\n

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I had a couple of interviews appear recently. First of all, there\u2019s an interesting new book called Alice Beyond Wonderland<\/a>, edited by Christopher Hollingsworth for the University of Iowa Press. Chris and Steve Hooley did an email interview with me that went into the book.<\/p>\n

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Secondly, the September, 2009, issue of The National Fantasy Fan<\/a>, includes an interview by Heath Row with me about Postsingular <\/a>and Hylozoic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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You can also find these interviews in my online collected online email interview document, \u201cAll the Interviews<\/a>,\u201d\u009d which I just updated today.<\/p>\n

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Further fannish news: I\u2019ll be at the National Fantasy Con in San Jose. I\u2019m on a panel on October 30, Friday, 5:00 PM, \u201cArtists Who Write & Writers Who Paint,\u201d\u009d with me, Greg Bear, ElizaBeth Gilligan, Karen Haber, and Seanan McGuire. And I\u2019ll be autographing later that evening, I think. Thanks, by the way, to Christine Valada, who helped me get a con membership—which I\u2019d postponed too long.<\/p>\n

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What else? I tried to enter a couple of my paintings (\u201cTopology of the Afterworld\u201d\u009d and \u201cSurf Pilgrim\u201d\u009d) in a local Los Gatos juried art show, and they turned down my pictures, of all the outrage. As COOP told me when I asked him about the possibility of a pro art career, \u201cSure, if you want a whole new way to break your heart!\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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Come to think of it, I have to go pick up those works right now.<\/p>\n

Late breaking news…a guy called Brett Harder <\/a>just sent me a link to his site, which has a some nice, somewhat SFictional and transreal graphic novelette, “Observance” which is, in way, formed like a vertical scroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day we were in Santa Cruz, and we came across a rave-like street party, it was kind of an after-party for Burning Man. I took a few pictures, and I\u2019m going to mix them in with some pictures that I snarfed today from a Japanese yokai or \u201cmythic monster\u201d\u009d scroll showing the \u201cDemons\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}