{"id":334,"date":"2007-09-26T22:32:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/i-drew-armistead-maupin-as-he-talked\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T22:32:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T14:32:39","slug":"i-drew-armistead-maupin-as-he-talked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/i-drew-armistead-maupin-as-he-talked\/","title":{"rendered":"I drew Armistead Maupin as he talked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armisteadmaupin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Armistead Maupin<\/a> spoke at the Octagon Theatre at the University of Western Australia tonight. I have a new set of coloured pencils, so I took along a sketch pad and drew as he talked. He read for 10 minutes or so from <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/76939926\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Tolliver Lives<\/a> &#8211; a passage that mentioned blogging, and Catholic schoolgirls and unionised strip joints and one way to obtain a distaste for cinnabuns.<\/p>\n<p>Armistead Maupin wrote the &#8220;Tales of the City&#8221; novels, which captured a generation of straight, gay and otherwise people in San Francisco when they were originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle. Before we had kids, the <a href=\"http:\/\/stewartgreenhill.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Co-Pilot<\/a> and I read his first six novels aloud to each other. As Armistead said tonight &#8211; at the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/20056092\" target=\"_blank\">Sure of You<\/a>, everyone thought that Michael Tolliver and his generation of positive friends were condemned. He woke up one day, many years later and realised that many  of his friends has survived.<\/p>\n<p>If a few swear words offend you, you should avert your eyes now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1008\/1443229816_95d8890722.jpg?v=0\" height=\"434\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1072\/1442365465_5ab3511587.jpg?v=0\" height=\"371\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armistead Maupin spoke at the Octagon Theatre at the University of Western Australia tonight. I have a new set of coloured pencils, so I took along a sketch pad and drew as he talked. He read for 10 minutes or so from Michael Tolliver Lives &#8211; a passage that mentioned blogging, and Catholic schoolgirls and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-5o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}