Unca Harlan's Art Deco Dining Pavilion

Discussion of the man and his work.

A, DV Order
Susan, It seems that the A, DV trade paperbacks were snapped up. If a third one pops up or an order falls through, I'll happily go on the wait list for one.

Also, did either Terry D. or Jill B. sign your copies of the Easton Press of DS that you're offering?

Smokey
John Zeock: your book is in the mail. Turns out the publisher was Blackthorne, not Kitchen Sink.

*A, DV*?
Dear Susan: I could use another copy of *Again, Dangerous Visions* if the extra is still available. I only have the paperbacks.

Cheers,
CC

Ooops


I just went back and counted, and it looks like I just missed the cut. Oh well; maybe I'll find one someplace else.

Ellison swag


SUSAN:

If I can get it inscribed and there's still an extra copy available, I'd like a copy of the ILLUSTRATED HARLAN ELLISON as well. It's about time for me to send in my HERC subscription renewal, anyway.

David Loftus

LAST CALL FOR ELLISON BOOKS
Paul (your membership is fine), Douglas (your membership is fine), Louis, Steve, and Jessi--confirmed.

Thank you.

Susan

Harlan,

Latkes with sugar? Really? Not even any cinnamon on them?
Just curious, do you pour salt on sufganiyot?

Mark

Books

Susan,
1 x THE ILLUSTRATED ELLISON @ $35 would be nice. Signed to Paul would be appreciated.

I will send the check after the weekend, if that is satisfactory. Kind old King George has decided i do not need to be stimulated just yet.

My HERC # is M966, you cashed my last subscription check on 29/4/2008 and I received # 43 & 44 already. I guess i'm good for awhile in the dollars to membership standings?

Thank you for everything,
Paul

Illustrated Ellison
I would like a copy of The Illustrated Ellison. That's if I counted correctly and there is still one available. It would be wonderful to have it personalized please.

Oops

Personalized, please, Susan.

D.

Susan:
One ILLUSTRATED ELLISON for me, please.

Merci,
D.

I was going to wait until the morning, but figured I hadda get my claim in ASAP.

One "Edge in My Voice", if you please, Miss Susan.

A check for $58.13 plus my HERC membership fee in tomorrow's mail.

Last Call -- Dangerous Visions
Susan,

Thanks for replying.

Please hold the book for me. 400 bucks isn't too much for a little piece of history. Of course I would love Harlan to sign it to me.

I will be sending a check tomorrow for it and a few other items.

Thanks again - I greatly appreciate it and am excited about owning the book.

Louis V.

A-TC & Mr. Keeney:
So it's seconded---we're the 3 Cemeterians! A-TC, I enjoyed "Good for the Soul" if "enjoy" is the right word. Very creep-inducing.
I attended the first Borderlands Writers Bootcamp, which was also attended by Matthew Warner, who has a story in the same issue as "Soul"---
And! ALSO attended by Dena Martin, who has a story in the same issue that Mr. Keeney appears in!
Where's Rod Serling to step out of the wings when you need him?
By the way, at that same workshop, in response to a manuscript I submitted, David (Rambo)Morrell forbade me to ever use another simile or metaphor in another one of my stories. In front of everybody.
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger...

Last call for Ellison books...and I wants some for me!

Hi Susan,

Pardon my ignorance, but I had no idea there was an "Illustrated Ellison". I did some quick research to see what it's about, and now I'm certain I would like to have one. Please hold a copy in my name, and I'll toss a check in the mail to you in a couple of days. If Harlan has a minute, please ask him to sign and scribble something fitting on the title page for me.

Many thanks,

David Silver

LAST CALL FOR ELLISON BOOKS
Peg (I got your note, thanks!), Just John and Haydn--Confirmed.

Thank you.

Louis--The DANGEROUS VISIONS (1st) is as close to mint as you'll get for 1969. The cover is glossy and bright. Usual discloration of endpaper gutters and pastedown. It is non-circulated. Never been in a bookstore.

All best--Susan

Jazz, etc.
Harlan,
I shall put that SFBC pamphlet in the mail a.s.a.p.
Payment received in full.
Thanks greatly for the list o' Jazz folk.
So begins the hunt.

Also, were you aware of the "Harlan Ellison Loves Me" T-shirts available on Amazon.com?
I was looking for used books when I stumbled onto them.
They are sold by Direct Collection and it looks as if they have a 'Love' shirt with just about any celebrity name you can think of on it.
This seems to me to be a big no-no.
But then, many things seem to me to seem what they oughtn't seem to be.

Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Harlan-Ellison-Loves-T-Shirt-L/dp/B0010TYAFQ/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=apparel&qid=1210282876&sr=8-15

Chris

johne
JohnE-thanks for the stover. I guess I'll just send THE SUN ALSO RISES signed by Ernest alone and keep the one signed by him and Scott. Can't believe I missed that in 1991, especially as I was reading Kitchen Sink product at the time. Jesus, we all better stay alive or who else will remember Thorne Smith and John Collier, Laird Cregar, Crosby's SKIPPY, R.A. Lafferty, Ken Nordine, Phil Ochs,etcetera ?

Well, Mr. Lump in the Oatmeal, there is a jacke and Roy who do Bossa Nova jazz, so I thought you meant them. I am oh so sorry. I will kindly take the pin from my beak and put it to good use-- Sew some tea cozies for the Queen.

Me hate lima beans and red potatoes--ick. Love Brussel sprouts, especially if they are properly cooked and buttered--important.

My anvil has been hammered. Feels like sex.

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Seems Steve King made some idiotic comment about how people who cannot read join the military. Fox news and right wing talk radio are going ape shit. Gotta admit, not a wise comment from uncle chill blades.

I hate the war too, but there are very smart people in the service. I know what Stevie meant, but he should know the knives would come out.

Re: Last Call for HE Books
Mrs E, please put me down for:

1 x THE ILLUSTRATED ELLISON @ $35
1 x AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS @ $30
1 x THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON (35th) @ $20

Still only $4 shipping for three items (incl. two hefty ones)? Please confirm, and I'll send off the money & other details immediately.

Rahsaan Rahcaamendations
Roland Kirk, later Rahsaan Roland Kirk, was noted for playing several wind instruments at once. Two or three at a time, even playing nose flute. "The Inflated Tear" or "We Free Kings" are great, but there are lot of great Kirk records. If you find a vinyl copy of "The Case of the 3-Sided Audio Dream In Color", it is a two-record set, but it has only three sides of music. The fourth side is mostly blank, but if you drop the needle strategically, you will hear a short phone conversation between Kirk and a woman and if you find the second track, Kirk is yelling and laughing over a phone line. We used to use that to kick the looky-loos out of Tower Records when I was on three PM to midnight guard(yloo?)

"Rahsaan" was the word chanted to him by people pointing at him in a dream. He then applied it to his name.

Brian Phillips


P.S. When payday hits, I will be buying "Harlan Ellison's Watching". I've missed not having access to my brother's copy since he moved away.

REPLIES

RYAN LEASHER: Call me today. We tried the phone number for you that Susan had with your HERC address: intercept said the number had been disconnected. So... My assistant will bring over to Burbank the signed WATCHING and take the mss., though let us be in concert, you and I, as to the terms. Instead of you hanging on to it, till I've recompensed you to your sated satisfaction, you want ME to have the mss. a priori, is that right? If correct, okay, I'll do it, but you MUST keep track (as will I) of the items flowing back toward you...and you'll tell me when to cease. Is that an acceptable modus operandi? If so, just give us a call. Or get your new number to me via any of the usual routes. Susan has your address from your HERC membership, as I said, but it never hurts to double-check. And having done so, my assistant will seek you out, hand you a new book, take an old manuscript.

And again, thank you, Ryan.
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ROBERT ROSS:

Any number of publishers have spoken to me about a collection of my letters. Not out of the question; just haven't gotten around to it. Too many undelivered writings already, so I refuse to take on anything new that will divert my energies. YR. PAL, HARLAN and THE GLASS TEAT OMNIBUS and the new revised ELLISON WONDERLAND, not to mention Tim Richmond's FINGERPRINTS ON THE SKY...all of which are in the pipeline...well, the book of letters, the book of introductions, the book of brilliant autobiographical anecdotes...all of them will have to wait.

But thanks for asking.
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ANTON:

Yes, of course, Getz. Remember, I was a jazz critic for more than 25 years, so if I don't mention all 50,004 of my favorites in a single post, it isn't necessary to assume I've never heard of Joe Williams or Count Basie or King Oliver or Bessie Smith, or Stan Getz. But if I had to choose, I'd go for Paul Desmond before Getz. By a squeak.
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STEVE BARBER &
DAVEY C.:

Mmmm. Mmmmm. Cats. Sigh.

I've had a couple of unpleasant experiences with cats in the far past, but neither so traumatic that it would bring about a reaction such as, say, that of The Mummy to any feline. I just don't like them, that's basically it. No rhyme or much reason to it. Mmmm, lemme see, can I parse it any better? Well, here's a parallel trope: I cannot abide certain vegetables. They make me sick, actually, physically, automatic reaction: lima beans, asparagus, cauliflower, red pinto beans, brussell sprouts, sauer kraut, beets. Why? Never knew. It just WAS.

Until the day Susan hipped me to it--there is apparently a chromosome, or a blood fraction, or somesuch biological DNA thing that makes lima beans to some people (I stand, raising my hand, pick me pick me!)as palatable as hyena vomit. It is cellular in me, I am now told; part of the blueprint.

The funny thing about THAT, is this: I looooove drinking the juice from a bottle of borscht, which is nothing but beets (though I have to strain the contents of the bottle so I get no beet detritus in my face); I looooove cole slaw even though I cannot be in the same room with cooked cabbage. Room, hell, the same fuckin' TIME-ZONE! And I'm a nut for hummus and its eggplanty relatives such as tahini. And I don't care at all for potatoes (MickeyD fries excepted), but Susan makes me "Dem Potatoes" which are cheesy and crunchy and I guess they're supposed to be akin to home fries or o'brian, elevated to nobility, but otherwise I puke at potato salad, red boiled (ugh) potatoes, most mashed unless so lumpless they make skin balm seem rocky by comparison. A potato latkeh has to be sliced thin and made crunchy for me to go at it; and I offend all others at the table by sprinkling latkes with sugar.

And I relish string beans, peas, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, eggplant, vichysoisse, pumpkins, BBQ baked beans, fried zucchini, spinach (looooove spinach), celery ... my, how he do go on. (Well, I wanted to be as thorough as I can be, in an attempt to stave off an Anton-type question, "What about carrots? You didn't mention carrots? You like Carrots?" and then I'd have to come back and, sighing, respond, "Yes, I like carrots, AND Stan Getz!"

The point being: cooked cabbage will make me direly ill, but I scarf up cole slaw like a chasser. I go wild for dogs, puppies or otherwise--except fuckin' pit bulls, kindly don't tell me how gentle and kind is the slobbering carrion-crawler YOU own--but have virtually no affection for cats, never have. Not to mention the goddam INEVITABLE, INVARIABLY MAUDLIN, fanatically INSISTENT, unasked-for & nobody-GIVES-a-shit pop-up replies from assholes who jus' looooves their li'l Cap'n Ahab or Miss CATerwaul or FelineFritzi, and cannot wait a nanosecond to simper on and on about how THEIR calico maltese manx bidet-drinker meows along to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle as rendered by Elliot Fisk on the Valencian Guitar, Yoko Ono on flute! Now, this is not to say there haven't been at least two kittens (I can remember) who were sweet, cuddly, scampering, and meant a few moments-worth of affection to me...but...on sum, as Kliban used to put it "Loves dem little kitties, loves to squeeze'em till they eyeballs pop out."

Cannot give you a better reason that that, you guys. But to read Davey C. going into paroxysms of abnegation at the least possibility that he was trying to suck out my ego and transistorize my id, or somesuch, merely because he asked howcum Harlan dun like cats...well, that's just arrant tomcatfoolishness or being coy and kittenish, heh heh.

I do hope that answers your FAQ. If not, well, (he said cheerily), youse can go'n fugg yerselfs.

Yr. Pal, Harlan

Ellison Book Order
Susan, your book list is just what I needed today!

Put me down for an Illustrated Ellison, that last Demon with a Glass Hand, and a Essential Ellison (50th; Limited, Boxed, Numbered). Personalized please, as Harlan sees fit.

Thanks,
Peggy

THE ILLUSTRATED ELLISON
Hi Susan,

I mailed a check for $41.89 today for one copy of THE ILLUSTRATED ELLISON - now with 3-D glasses! (Couldn't resist.)

I also asked for a personalized inscription from Harlan.

Thanks!

John

How do I feel about the Ellison Chair?
When I spoke to Harlan on the phone after winning this, his first words to me were, "Are you out of your mind?" Clearly, he thinks so. To him, this is just a slightly worn but "terrifically sturdy" writing chair, and it's something of a lark to ship it across the country to a fan.

But on the other side of the looking glass... I've been reading Harlan for 27 years, since I was 14. An Edge in My Voice alone taught me more about art, aesthetics, honor, integrity, and goddamn writing than four years of college.

In my _informed_ opinion, Angry Candy is one of the great works of literature in the English language.

I sit now, typing this, in the chair in which they were written.

I have no doubt this will be in a museum someday, long after my heirs pry it from my cold, dead ass. But until then I will sit in it and type and work, and occasionally stop and remind myself that I am sitting where Ellison sat when he wrote what he wrote.

Hold on... doing it now...

Best thousand bucks I ever spent.

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