Two Pictures from the Nebula Awards Weekend, May 2000

[mabfan]

In May 2000 I was up for a Nebula Award for the first time, and my brother Danny recently sent me some photos from that weekend. For no real reason, I've decided to post two of them here.

The first photo is of me and Octavia Butler:

Michael A. Burstein, Octavia Butler

This may have been the first time I met Octavia Butler. What I recall most was how charming she was, and the odd coincidence that one of her best friends was an old college friend of my Mom's. That friend was at her table with her and got to see her win the Nebula.

The second picture is of some of my family:

Bursteins at Nebula Awards Standing: David, Daniel, Josh, Eleanor. Sitting: Michael

The caption tells you, but I'll reiterate: standing behind me are my half-brothers David and Daniel, my brother Josh, and my Mom.

And about myself in these pictures, all I can say is that I look at those glasses and have no idea what I was thinking.

Comments

[twitch124.livejournal.com]

I've got a guess about the glasses. At some point in the late 90s, you got new glasses from an optometrist who had a bunch of excessively trendy 70s influenced glasses in stock. Since you are neither a nocturnal 100 lb club kid nor Paris Hilton, you tried to wear them non-ironically and the glasses didn't like that :)

[alruff.livejournal.com]

*So envious.*

I dream of winning (or being nominated for) a Nebula.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

And about myself in these pictures, all I can say is that I look at those glasses and have no idea what I was thinking.

Honestly, it doesn't matter what glasses you choose, you'll always wonder that when you look back at old photos.

[sorek.livejournal.com]

Just reading the photo caption makes me say...

Let's play the Family Feud!

It helps that there were just the right number of people in the photo.