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Important => Calendar Event Discussion => Topic started by: Fineous on March 12, 2007, 08:52:23 PM

Title: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Fineous on March 12, 2007, 08:52:23 PM
Seattle one day, then RIGHT past the Bay area, and down to LA.  FEH!

 :'(
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: ButMadNNW on March 12, 2007, 10:02:39 PM
Seattle one day, then RIGHT past the Bay area, and down to LA.  FEH!

 :'(

"It's not called leprosy anymore. It's called Hansen's Disease." - Paul Blackthorne(!) on Monk :)
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Nemo on March 12, 2007, 10:33:49 PM
Maybe he heard you NorCal people are a bit upity?  He is after all a Midwest boy.
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Mickey Finn on March 21, 2007, 02:27:56 PM
Hey, don't complain. You guys get Eddie Izzard, who seems to think that the US only exists as California and New York (except for skiing in Colorado).
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Zygoptera on March 27, 2007, 01:04:10 AM
(as long as we're on the subject of avoidance...) So Jim, where's the love? When are you planning to make your stop in Alaska? We like to read up here too, you know!
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: PamelaHeath on March 27, 2007, 01:33:35 AM
Maybe he heard you NorCal people are a bit upity?  He is after all a Midwest boy.

Hey! I'm in the San Francisco Bay area, and I grew up in Missouri. There are a lot of us Midwesterners out here!
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: chupie on March 27, 2007, 01:35:37 AM
I was going to say, try living in the heartland. No one ever comes here.
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: SoulCatcher78 on March 27, 2007, 02:12:16 AM
I was going to say, try living in the heartland. No one ever comes here.

Agreed...Heartland or as it is more commonly referred to, the Middle of Nowhere.
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: SSmith981 on March 27, 2007, 09:51:06 PM
thats nothing I live in the city where the book is based and I still get no love.  Don't be scared of Chicagoans, Jim we're not going to bite you.
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Ard Rhys on March 27, 2007, 10:00:40 PM
After Jim signs or personalizes the books some of you have ordered from The Signed Page (http://www.signedpage.com), I plan on going to his event here in Seattle, recording it with my webcam, and placing it on the website for you guys to watch and listen to.  :)  Although that is a very small consolation to actually being in Jim's presence, at least it is something, right? :)
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Priscellie on March 28, 2007, 12:26:48 PM
After Jim signs or personalizes the books some of you have ordered from The Signed Page (http://www.signedpage.com), I plan on going to his event here in Seattle, recording it with my webcam, and placing it on the website for you guys to watch and listen to.  :)  Although that is a very small consolation to actually being in Jim's presence, at least it is something, right? :)

Hurrah!  I was lucky enough to meet Jim at New York Comic Con, but he only had about 10-15 minutes to actually talk to the SciFi Friday audience.  I look forward to hearing him when he has a little more time to speak!
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Jheren on March 29, 2007, 04:35:15 PM
Yea, don't let the White Sox fans fool you, chicago is a great place to come.
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: ToddM326 on March 29, 2007, 06:08:47 PM
Don't let the big dead dinosaur scare you either.  I've visited Chicago, and it is a great city.
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: ButMadNNW on March 29, 2007, 06:11:31 PM
I haven't been to Chicago since before I moved out of Wisconsin. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if they still have the The Light and the Darkness lions at the Field Museum? I didn't find out about them until I'd already moved, so if I saw them, I didn't know it at the time.
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: pathele on March 29, 2007, 07:08:35 PM
FYI
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/permnature_exhib.htm#animals
Lions of Tsavo is a permanent exhibit at the Fields Museum.

And how about Norman, OK. Jim started out here and do we see him dropping by?  nope. ;D


-paul



Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: ButMadNNW on March 29, 2007, 08:32:20 PM
FYI
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/permnature_exhib.htm#animals
Lions of Tsavo is a permanent exhibit at the Fields Museum.

Thanks! ;D If I ever make it back to Chicago, I know what's on my To Do list.
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Darla on March 30, 2007, 10:21:27 AM
Quote
   
What, do we have leprosy or something?

Vastly OT, but the book I'm currently reading suggests that what used to be called "leprosy" was actually syphilis.  Puts a whole new slant on the thread here. 
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Fineous on April 02, 2007, 05:00:26 AM
What book is that?  That makes no sense at all.  The symptoms are totally different.  Syphilis eventually drives you insane.  Leprosy kills off the nerves and eventually causes necrosis as little injuries add up and don't heal correctly, and causes parts of you to rot and have to be removed.  Not sure I see the connection there.
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Darla on April 03, 2007, 11:04:51 AM
Yeah, that's what I thought.  ::)  It was Disease and History.  I think maybe they meant that sometimes one was mistaken for the other? 

It was just odd that I saw this thread immediately after I'd read that, so I had to share. 
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Kayleefan on April 13, 2007, 06:09:37 PM
Yes, I vote for a Chicago appearance.
After all, it's Harry's hometown.   ;D

(By the way, the new book is awesome!)

Scott
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Donna on June 28, 2007, 11:24:41 PM
I figured this would be the most appropriate thread to put this on.  I found this site where you can request artists to visit your city and put requested that Jim visit Nashua, NH.  It's not where I live, but it's close enough that I can get there easily.  Plus, it's pretty centrally located in New England.

So if you live in the area, click on the link below to add your voice to the request or request another city:

http://eventful.com/performers/P0-001-000052521-6 (http://eventful.com/performers/P0-001-000052521-6)

Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: polarglen on July 18, 2007, 03:03:27 AM
Come to Chicago, Jim!  Visit Wrigley Field.  Note that it does not have acres and acres of parking!  I'm afraid that if you don't come, Harry will move away and we'll be left to battle the creatures of the NeverNever on our own.  How scarey is that?
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: *Lady Disappearing Act * on July 23, 2007, 02:45:39 PM
LOOK, even if i do have leprosy from rubbing shoulders with the rest of marin, that's no excuse for the flagrant skipping out on San Francisco.  or as we call it, "the city."  cuz we're weird like that.  maybe it's the leprosy.
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Ghoulfish on July 23, 2007, 03:44:27 PM
What about Canada - its not that cold up here .... most of the time
Title: Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
Post by: Giark on August 03, 2007, 07:44:56 PM
What about Canada - its not that cold up here .... most of the time

Seconded. It would be great to get a chance to meet Jim. Nice and hot up here now.