The Writers Groups From Hell held its annual white elephant holiday gift exchange party yesterday. I was one of the founding members of the critiquing group back in 1989, when it didn’t yet have a name, and I had to drop out when Science Fiction Age took over my life. But each year, all members, both current and past, gather together to unload unwanted, unneeded, and unnecessary gifts on each other.

Over good food and drink, I learned things about my friends I never knew before—such as Sharon Patry’s misspent youth artificially inseminating rabbits. I’d share other unsavory anecdotes, but then I’d have to mark this entry NSFW, and we don’t want to go there, do we?

Here I am with Mindy Klasky, while Fred Gooding looks on from the background.

To see who else turned up, check out my flickr set.

And to see how well (or poorly) we’re aging, here are the holiday photos from 2007.