{"id":273,"date":"2008-08-22T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/08\/22\/joe-mike-and-me\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:47:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:47:39","slug":"joe-mike-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/08\/22\/joe-mike-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe, Mike, and me"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p> $\"\"$ <\/a>Laura Domitz is a friend and long-time member of the Fandom Association of Central Texas<\/a>. She\u2019s also the tireless photographer that shoots candid photos of me and countless others at cons everywhere. I call her photos \u201csniper shots\u201d because I rarely see Laura coming until she\u2019s taken her shot. This past weekend at Armadillocon, I watched her studiously catalog stacks of prints (that she printed with her own money) so that she could gift them to the lucky folks in the photos. She\u2019s one-of-a-kind. Over the years, Laura\u2019s captured every conceivable facial expression of mine and frankly, a lot of expressions I wish I didn\u2019t conceive. Recently she gave me this photograph she shot at the Nebula Awards in March. It\u2019s one of the very few photos of me that I\u2019ll cherish forever. Left to right \u2014 Joe R. Lansdale, 2008 SFWA Grandmaster Michael Moorcock, and me, after Mike was given SFWA\u2019s big honor. Besides the occasion of the photo, it\u2019s meaningful because the first covers I ever illustrated were for these two authors. Pretty cool. Thanks, Laura! \ud83d\ude42\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laura Domitz is a friend and long-time member of the Fandom Association of Central Texas. She\u2019s also the tireless photographer that shoots candid photos of me and countless others at cons everywhere. I call her photos \u201csniper shots\u201d because I rarely see Laura coming until she\u2019s taken her shot. This past weekend at Armadillocon, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/JOEMIKEME08.jpg?fit=403%2C259","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-4p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}