{"id":502,"date":"2009-10-30T18:27:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T18:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/10\/30\/lansdale-and-klaw-to-chat-at-the-texas-book-festival\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:48","slug":"lansdale-and-klaw-to-chat-at-the-texas-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/10\/30\/lansdale-and-klaw-to-chat-at-the-texas-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Lansdale and Klaw to chat at the Texas Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of my more difficult assignments, I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasbookfestival.org\/Calendar.php?selected_day=2&amp;amp;eid=545#e545\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">interviewing Joe R. Lansdale at the Texas Book Festival<\/a> on Saturday, October 31 @ 3:30 in Capitol Extension Room E2.016 of the Texas State Capitol. That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m having a sit down with <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mania.com\/top-20-greatest-horror-writers-alltime_article_113153.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">top 20 horror writers of all time<\/a> on Halloween day<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.texasbookfestival.org\/images\/featured_works\/0307270971.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.texasbookfestival.org\/images\/featured_works\/0292719418.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAs many of you know (and if you don&#8217;t, you should), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joerlansdale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Joe<\/a> is one chatty fella so I wouldn&#8217;t expect to hear a lot out of me once he gets going.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at the Festival, be sure and drop by.  You won&#8217;t regret it. I fully expect this to be the kind of happening you won&#8217;t wanna miss.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sanfordallen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dillostrip12.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 9px;line-height: normal\">Joe engaging in two of his favorite past times: chattin&#8217; &amp;amp; signin&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of my more difficult assignments, I&#8217;m interviewing Joe R. Lansdale at the Texas Book Festival on Saturday, October 31 @ 3:30 in Capitol Extension Room E2.016 of the Texas State Capitol. 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