{"id":327,"date":"2004-12-04T16:52:06","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T00:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=327"},"modified":"2004-12-04T16:52:06","modified_gmt":"2004-12-05T00:52:06","slug":"master-of-space-and-time-los-gatos-xmas-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/04\/master-of-space-and-time-los-gatos-xmas-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Master of Space and Time, Los Gatos Xmas Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since this summer, my novel Master of Space and Time<\/i> has been under option for a movie directed by Michel Gondry starring Jack Black. This book had nice covers in both the hardback edition<\/p>\n

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and paperback editions.<\/p>\n

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It's out of print now, but a new edition with yet another great cover will be out soon from Thunder's Mouth Press, an Avalon imprint.<\/p>\n

The movie is by no means a done deal; neither my agent Marty Shapiro nor I have heard anything new about it for months. But I’m thinking of it today because I got a link to Charles Eicher’s blog <\/a> where he’s ruminating about the possible deal and speculating about my thoughts, it was flattering, but it felt odd reading it.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile I’m laboring on a revision of The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul<\/i><\/a>. I though it was done, but now after setting it aside for two months and coming back to it, I’m seeing it needs a lot of polish, and am a little uptight about how much work I have left.<\/p>\n

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Today Rudy, Jr., and his friend Penny stopped by, along with Rudy’s dog Slug. Penny rented a van to move some of her stuff. I love how the flash make’s Slug’s eyes look.<\/p>\n

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This pose of Slug’s is called Prairie Dog.<\/p>\n

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Sylvia and I went down to the annual Los Gatos Christmas Parade, a cozy event where pretty much anyone who wants to can form a group and march or drive down the main street.<\/p>\n

Some guys who call themselves the Los Gatos Camel Herders — I think it's that old Mason\/Shriner thing of enjoying dressing up in Eastern garb, in other words, these guys are probably not<\/i> Moslems. Do people in the mid East ever have parades where they dress up like Westerners?<\/p>\n

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The Bubble Angels under I forget what aegis.<\/p>\n

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Los Gatos Meats, which is place that will butcher up your deer meat for you, had a float with some reindeer on it, reminding me of those pigs in chef’s hats that you see all over the South. I wrote a story called “The Men In The Back Room At The Country Club,” about a guy who becomes a kind of pig-chef, cooking humans for aliens, and it is supposed to appear in Infinite Matrix some day.<\/p>\n

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And some born-again types, even in yup Los Gatos. I looked up John 3:16 to see if it has anything to do with camping, but no, it doesn’t. Would you<\/i> go in this tent?<\/p>\n

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Is a minister who pressures his flock to vote for an anti-human regime really any different from a deer who leads his fellows into a slaughterhouse? Budda-boomp.<\/p>\n

Aw, I promised myself I wouldn't talk about politics in here, and just listen to me. Maybe the minister of the church with this tent-float is a really good guy, you never know. And certainly it's nice to have God in your heart, yes. But, look, when I go camping, I want trees and streams. Nature is, after all, the cosmic ur-religion, all on her own. Hail Gaia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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