Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:32:46 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Meeting KSR Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> We got to the reading a few minutes late. Stan was reading from the section of "Sixty Days and Counting" dealing with mountain climing. quite amusing. He followed that up with a section dealing with Thoreau and Emerson. Sorry, no aliens zapped. Questions folllowed by signing. He is working on a new novel, dealing with Galileo. If I recall correctly the current title is "The Galileans" At the conclusion Stan, Elspeth, and I went over to a nearby Ruby Tuesday restaurant. How to make Stan smile: mention the single malts he had at Capclave. Anyway, talked about a number of things, such as how long it would take to drive to get to Wilmington, DE. Now, you may very well ask: "Wilmington, DE?" Seems Stan is a fan of the jazz trumpeter Cliffford Brown who was born in Wilmington. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Brown . And as expected, the conversation wandered all over the place. Stan may be back in the DC area to do something at the National Science Foundation since there were apparently problems with schedulingthings. All in all, a right good time. mjw