{"id":92,"date":"2006-04-27T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T16:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=92"},"modified":"2006-04-27T08:57:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T16:57:41","slug":"rudy-at-la-times-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/rudy-at-la-times-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy at LA Times Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/freslop.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, I&rsquo;m going to LA for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/extras\/festivalofbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times Festival of Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/4sunrise.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m on a panel in on Sunday, April 30, at 10:30 AM &#8211; Noon, &ldquo;Science Writing: Physics and Metaphysics,&rdquo; held at the Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium, moderated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/general\/quark-soup\/quantum-mysticism\/9195\/\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Wertheim<\/a>, and including <a href=\"http:\/\/sandrablakeslee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Blakeslee<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0151008167\/sr=1-3\/qid=1146159204\/ref=pd_bbs_3\/102-3579195-1664906?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;s=books\" target=\"_blank\">K.C. Cole<\/a> as well as me.  I&#039;m there to promote <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/lifebox\" target=\"_blank\">The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/4stone.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was biking on Saint Joseph&rsquo;s Hill above Los Gatos.  This fallen rock made me think of the Robert Johnson song, &ldquo;Stones in my Pathway.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/4gnarl.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Once I told a fried I&rsquo;d like to take a picture of every single gnarly thing I ever see.  I&rsquo;m getting&rsquo; there!  Oaks grow slower than other trees, and &ldquo;think&rdquo; more about where to go, thus their more convoluted trunks (= spacetime trails = worldlines).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/4poppy.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The wildflowers are fixing to bust loose quite soon.  Maybe next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/4shire.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This one part of Saint Joseph&rsquo;s Hill reminds me of the Shire where the hobbits live.  Cozy nature.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/4stj.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I always relate to the lone trees on the mountain slopes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/4view.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And here&rsquo;s one more shot from that hilltop I climbed near Fresno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I&rsquo;m going to LA for the LA Times Festival of Books. I&rsquo;m on a panel in on Sunday, April 30, at 10:30 AM &#8211; Noon, &ldquo;Science Writing: Physics and Metaphysics,&rdquo; held at the Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium, moderated by Margaret Wertheim, and including Sandra Blakeslee and K.C. Cole as well as me. I&#039;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","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\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}