Lots of stuff Friday

I've got strange friends.



Menu drawing by R. Gagnon and myself. I added the hippie, which he filled in.

Meet James Ensor, Belgium's famous painter:



What's going on with his hand?

Below, sketch by Eric Theriault, of the happy-go-lucky Leader of the Solar Temple:



That evening, we went to a launch of some books at Paragraphe Books, which I am sad to see is no longer an independent bookstore, but bought up by a chain. Still, it's a cool store.

Arrived a little late, which was all right for me. I'm not a fan of readings at book launchings. (But sadly, my friend Rick didn't get to hear his friend Claude Lalumiere, read from his story published in the Canadian SF anthology Tesseracts 11.) I did catch one reading, which was more like a story recalled, by Brett Savory, whom I drew, below.

Brett was promoting his book In and Down.



Also met Nairne Holtz, whose name I bobbled. Hope that linking to one of her books she showed me at the store, The Skin Beneath, helps make up for that.