I know. I promise I will return to providing content rather than plugs very, very soon. But at the same time, I’m often told I don’t self-promote enough. So I’m making up for lost time, see
Tomorrow, Wednesday, I’ll be conducting an online chat at CourtTV.com. Please come on over to what I think of as “my sister’s place” and join in.
It’ll take place at 2PM ET/11AM PT. Check in and say hi. Ask me things you’ve always been afraid to ask me in person. Or via email. Those kinds of things.
THEN, the next evening, on Thursday, I’ll be reading and signing books down in Santa Monica at a local bookseller known as “Barnes and Noble.” It’ll be at 7:30 PM. After that first reading a couple of weeks ago and a quickie reading at Felberpalooza, I should be in fine fettle. And this will prepare me for my triumphant return to the great northwest and my appearance at our own Seattle Dan’s shoppe.
Yes, I will return to talking about something other than myself very, very soon. As soon as I reach my goal of sending my book into a second printing before the midterm elections. A boy’s gotta dream…
Fanny Roborat
80 comments
SeattleDan
September 12, 2006 at 10:07 pm
1Rent 50 chairs? Check.
Publicity? Check.
Makers Mark? Check.
Books? Where the hell did I put the books!!?????
Fran
September 12, 2006 at 10:36 pm
2Best find those books, boyo! I’m looking forward to this extravaganza!
Light Fingers Louie
September 13, 2006 at 4:04 am
3SeattleDan, I hear dey have some books you might be lookin’ for down at your local “Barnes and Noble”. If a guy was good wit’ his hands…
It's Pat!
September 13, 2006 at 5:50 am
4I’m getting my copy the old fashioned way. I wait until there is some big party in PA and they have signed books laying around. Then someone decides to tell everyone on a blog that copies are available, PLUS a T-shirt. So I email the nice person, who calls me back and takes the order. Simple as pie, and just as sweet.
dee
September 13, 2006 at 6:46 am
5My question for Adam’s CourtTV chat:
Would JonBenet Ramsey still be alive if her father hadn’t opened the door to the basement?
Harold
September 13, 2006 at 7:28 am
6Both alive and dead, dee.
For a similar reason, there was a calendar in my garage which spent several years on the August 2001 page.
Susie
September 13, 2006 at 8:31 am
7Dee — Good one!
(Wrong, sure, whatever, but the funny trumps that IMHO)
Hope to see some of you at today’s chat!
Harold
September 13, 2006 at 10:04 am
8Don’t forget the upcoming premiere of “The Adam Felber Show” (a.k.a. “Talkshow with Spike Feresten”) this weekend! Everything says that it’s 12:00 Saturday…but does this actually mean it begins first thing Sunday morning?
SeattleDan
September 13, 2006 at 11:13 am
9The Seattle Times reprinted this review from the Miami Herald today with a mention of the event.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2003255499_schrodinger13.h tml
Ann
September 13, 2006 at 11:59 am
10I’m so excited about the book signing at SeattleDan’s! What’ll I wear?
Harold
September 13, 2006 at 12:21 pm
11Are you opening up the floor to suggestions, Ann? Remember, we want photos! And whatever you wear, make sure it works well on PhotoShop!
(Since you admire Quicksilver so much, maybe you can dress as his sister!)
Ann
September 13, 2006 at 1:15 pm
12The Scarlet Witch? Um, I don’t think so. Do any of the X-Men wear a muumuu?
tess
September 13, 2006 at 2:20 pm
13Damn you! Damn you to hell! You’re nowhere near SLO . . . which is probably to your benefit.
Shecky Green
September 13, 2006 at 2:37 pm
14Oh, I don’t know, I thought the line about “two fingers and a stalk of asparagus” was hilarious. But whatta I know?
Landis
September 13, 2006 at 2:53 pm
15Harold: I’ve seen plenty of garages with calendars that may stay on a particular page for years. I don’t think it has quite as much to do with the date as it does with the accompanying picture.
Murray
September 13, 2006 at 4:31 pm
16Good luck Dan, May the gods of huge crowds smile on you.
(T-shirts are still available, now already collector’s items)
It's Pat!
September 13, 2006 at 6:55 pm
17Hey! There’s that nice guy I was telling you about! Murray, I shoulda got a pink shirt. Then my kids could find me in a crowd. Why they would look for me I have no idea.
SeattleDan
September 13, 2006 at 9:57 pm
18Anyone catch the CourtTv. chat? I had an appointment at 11:30, but tried to check in before then, only to find it a bit difficult to navigate. Maybe I just don’t understand this new-fangled chatroom internets stuff.
Harold
September 14, 2006 at 3:54 am
19I was able to sneak away for a few minutes. Unfortunately, my questions were delayed by about 10 minutes, so by the time they posted, I realized they weren’t really in the spirit of the thing. It seemed like a lot of getting-to-know-you stuff for the CourtTV regulars. Maybe some of them came over here!
dee
September 14, 2006 at 5:02 am
20I tried — even submitted a question. But I kept getting disconnected from the chat and never did see anything. Perhaps there is a transcript somewhere?
Anonymous
September 14, 2006 at 7:26 am
21http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6450503425739831176&hl=en
Apologies for an off-topic comment. I’m trying to inject this video
into the blogosphere. It appears to be an F-16 HUD recording of
a group of protesters being intentionally targeted and bombed.
dee
September 14, 2006 at 11:04 am
22Ok ok ok OKAY. I finally got the pics loaded up on flickr here. Hard to believe it was 2 weeks ago today I was headed up to the wilds of PA. I’m sure you Seattle folks (and others from the Pacific Rim) will have a fine time at the book-signing at SeattleDan’s place.
Sharon
September 14, 2006 at 1:49 pm
23Hi, boys and girls. I’m sitting here in Buley Library, a mere 1,000 or so feet away from Lyman Auditorium, on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University, in New Haven, CT. A sold-out episode of WWDTM will be conducted here tonight! Unfortunately for me, I have a class tonight. But if Adam had been scheduled to participate, I would have ditched the class and gotten a ticket one way or another.
waterfowler
September 14, 2006 at 2:05 pm
24anonymous,
“Appears” to be “protesters”? I’m sure you also think W. brought down the towers and murdered blacks in New Orleans.
I don’t have it yet, Adam. But when sales skyrocket in East Tree Stump, you can thank the ‘fowler.
Ann
September 14, 2006 at 2:27 pm
25Maybe this Web site needs a constantly updated calendar of Adam’s public appearances, book signings, etc. That would be a great help to all of his
stalkersfans.siobhan
September 14, 2006 at 2:53 pm
26Wow.
Mary Landrieu really laid into the Rs on the Senate floor.
Ann
September 14, 2006 at 5:17 pm
27Great speech by Landrieu!
And speaking of New York, which we were on the previous post (but on which I thought this comment would be inappropriate), I’m going to be there for a few days in early October. I’ve traveled in Asia and Europe, but I’ve never been to the Big Apple! Any suggestions about what I simply must see?
SeattleDan
September 14, 2006 at 5:20 pm
28Museum of Modern Art. Hayden Museum. The Cloisters. Take in a show.
Remember that the Bronx is up and the Battery’s down. The people ride in a hole in the ground.
Ann
September 14, 2006 at 5:46 pm
29New York, New York—it’s a wonderful town!
David
September 14, 2006 at 6:22 pm
30Thank you, thank you, siobhan, for that link.
Turd Blossom
September 14, 2006 at 6:47 pm
31Apropos of nothing, didja see the story about the shooting in Montreal today? Despite the fact that one witness said ze was terrified, and students lay in terror, “police dismissed suggestions that terrorism played a role in the lunch-hour attack.” I’m sure that comes as a relief to the family of the person who was killed and the 19 people who were injured.
How can the media report these kind of official statements without a trace of irony?
siobhan
September 14, 2006 at 6:54 pm
32My understanding is that the one person that was killed was the shooter. Not sure that anything will come as a relief to his family.
Sienna's pug
September 14, 2006 at 8:05 pm
33NY must-dos: Central Park and/or Prospect Park and/or Botanical gardens, walk around midtown, ride the Q train during sunset over the Manhattan Bridge, ditto on the museums plus the Met (plus so many great smaller museums…how much time do you have?), and walk walk walk–as many neighborhoods, as many ethnic enclaves, as much public jostling as your feet can take. And don’t forget Brooklyn (I believe Adam once lived there, perhaps there is a shrine?) and Queens (Astoria for good, cheap ethnic eats). For individual shows and special events splurge on a copy of “Time Out.”
If you’re coming on a weekend, beware the weekend subway re-routing, designed specifically to make tourists accidentally spend 8 hours only to end up in New Jersey.
Dale
September 14, 2006 at 8:06 pm
34Ummm, I have no idea why Sienna’s pug was giving New York tourist recommendations. But ditto what he (she?) said.
Harold
September 14, 2006 at 8:32 pm
35I was wondering how Sienna’s pug knew so much about the museums and the Q train. I understood the “walk, walk, walk” part, but was trying hard to decipher the new meaning of the word “splurge” in “splurge on a copy of ‘Time Out’.”
Sharon
September 15, 2006 at 4:32 am
36My votes for NYC must-sees: the Met, Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, Greenwich Village, The Strand Bookstore.
Check out Big Onion Walking Tours:
“weekend subway re-routing”? When did this start? I’ve never had that happen to me in Manhattan.
Sharon
September 15, 2006 at 4:33 am
37Another NYC must-see: Grand Central Station
cooper
September 15, 2006 at 4:38 am
38Hey fowler, re: “I’m sure you also think W. brought down the towers and murdered blacks in New Orleans.”
No, W didn’t bring down the towers, but when he could have done something - like, oh, I don’t know, maybe read an intelligence briefing warning about “bin Laden wants to attack buildings with airplanes (August 6, 2001)” he decided, “No, I’ve got all this brush to cut out on the ranch”.
Not to forget on September 11, 2001, when he could have done something to marshall the national defenses while we were actively under attack by terrorists, he decided to take time to finish that riveting literature entitled “My Pet Goat” instead. I guess he needed to know how it ended, so he could use similar techniques to battle evildoers in his new “War on Terror!”.
And, no, W didn’t murder blacks in New Orleans, he just doesn’t care about black people and besides, he had just been given a new guitar out in California and he needed to get down a few licks. Plus, it wouldn’t have been good manners leave all those campaign contributors just to help a handful of hapless negros who don’t vote for Republicans anyway.
Sharon
September 15, 2006 at 4:38 am
39Hmmmm, not quite sure what happened there…. try again
Big Onion Walking Tours: http://www.bigonion.com/
Sharon
September 15, 2006 at 4:44 am
40Cooper, if you’d seen this week’s edition of This Modern World, or watched the Disney/ABC movie last weekend I guess, then you’d know that in August 2001 the President had convened a Top Secret Anti-Terror Summit in Crawford. His vacation was only a cover story.
In fact, I’ll bet all his vacations are really cover stories.
SpottedDog
September 15, 2006 at 5:58 am
41“George Bush is the president” is a cover story.
siobhan
September 15, 2006 at 6:12 am
42Fowler, echoing what Cooper said: It’s not necessary to exaggerate to show that Bush is a disaster for this nation. Frankly, I’m surprised that more voices from the right don’t speak up loudly because he is doing more to destroy the principles (and credibility) of the conservative movement than we knee-jerk liberals could ever manage. (Kinda like Colin Powell will never be able to fully redeem his reputation after his association with this administration.)
Even if I disagree with you on many issues, I can understand where you’re coming from. And, hell, there are probably enough areas where we agree that it would surprise both of us. That’s why it’s so odd to see you still defending Bush so strongly. This administration is less committed to conservative values than it is to retaining (and increasing) their power, and they are using you as a means to that end. Keep that in mind for the next forty years while we’re paying for the irresponsibility of this crew.
Lauren
September 15, 2006 at 8:55 am
43I got into the chat! Adam was lovely, of course. Harold, I had the same problem–toss out a comment and it comes up off topic by the time they got to it. And a lot of questions didn’t make it up at all; after the chat, some of the folk were joking about Homeland Security detaining the questions/planning visits.
I couldn’t c&p for a transcript, I’m afraid, though I was there the whole time. A tidbit, though: He said he wanted to call it Schrödinger’s Balls, but that the publishers didn’t like that much. There was also a cry for justice for umlauts, which CourtTTV (the extra T was for Tyranny, Adam said) wasn’t allowing in their chats. Oh, and I guess a lot of questions about the book and show themselves actually did get answered. . .
I’d also planned to ask “Why the Islanders, when the delicious Penguins are so near?” but he mentioned he grew up on Long Island. So I left that alone.
cooper
September 15, 2006 at 1:20 pm
44SpottedDog, good point.
Becca (and Brian)
September 15, 2006 at 2:11 pm
45So not to be off-topic….oh, who am I kidding, i live for off-topic. Has anybody heard about this: http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2006/08/back-from-mideast.html.
Granted it’s only one person’s side of the story, but it rings true to me and just reminds me that little things like this are happening every day. I miss my country……
Becca
SpottedDog
September 15, 2006 at 5:12 pm
46Becca-
Here’s a related article:
http://permanenttourist.com/4paths/fly-without-id.html
explains that airlines have a procedure in place for allowing people who don’t want to show I.D. to fly. I haven’t flown in years and don’t know how true this is.
Harold
September 15, 2006 at 5:41 pm
47I am thinking of making T-shirts that say “I AM NOT A TERRORIST”. This should definitely make things easier for travelers. I would sell them alongside my T-shirts that say “NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEFT OR DAMAGE”. (I actually saw a dump truck [that’s a “tipping lorry” to you foreigners…or is that a garbage truck?] with mudflaps that said “NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE”. So I guess they had any liability issues covered up-front.)
27 hours and 19 minutes until the premiere of The Adam Felber Show on FOX!
SeattleTammy
September 15, 2006 at 7:02 pm
48People! People!
Please! back to the plugging and preening we are here to do.
Jesus’ General has graciously posted an ad for the Seattle event of the year. What a wonderful guy!
Today i made more postcards to litter the city with, and a poster to attach to 30 unsuspecting telephone poles. SB is of course the pick of the month at JSB’s page at www.kplu.org
The event of the year has been listed in both newspaper’s Fall Arts sections.
I sent out the event of the year’s info on Seattle Mystery’s ezine to 1,500 mystery readers.
Today I saw a plane flying around and around with a banner fluttering off the back… hmmmnn…I wonder how much that costs?
Honey? can I use that visa card?
SeattleDan
September 15, 2006 at 7:43 pm
49UPDATE: Gen. J.C.Christian, patriot, has posted a thread on his most righteous blog about the signing, aka, the event of the year. Check out
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/
Harold
September 15, 2006 at 10:37 pm
50SeattlesTammy and Dan, will you have Grouseland-edition signed copies at your signing? They will then become even more valuable by the addition of your fine signatures, and those of any Felbernauts in attendance? (Ann gets to double-sign! Whoo-hoo!) Or should I order a copy of the Grouseland edition from Murray (which I’m gonna do, Murray, along with a couple of other things) to be shipped to you for additional signatures?
And then…are there any more signing ceremonies coming up in Felbernaut territory? These books can travel from signing to signing, picking up a huge set of signatures!
David
September 16, 2006 at 5:47 am
51All right, all you Fanatical Apathiists, join in:
Chew tabacca, chew tabacca,
Spit, spit, spit,
If you ain’t got his book,
You ain’t shit.
Gooooooooooooooooo, Adam.
Steve
September 16, 2006 at 9:39 am
52Adam:
Are you coming to San Diego?
I’m sure that The Book Works in Del Mar would be delighted to have you.
http://www.book-works.com/
Becca (and Brian)
September 16, 2006 at 10:51 am
53Spotted Dog-
Before we bugged off to gallivant around the globe I had a quick business trip to Pittsburgh to make from Minneapolis. Just as I was about to check in I realized that my ID was in my jeans pocket on the floor of my room (of course!) and not in my wallet or business suit. Oops. Because of my usual disdain for getting to the airport early there was no chance to go home and get it. I was indeed allowed to get on the plane both there and on the way back, they just put an orange sticker on my stuff, put my things in a red tub when it went through security (for extra screening) and gave me a quick wanding over. So it is indeed possible to do.
Seattle Dan/Tammy: We’ll mention the event to any of our northbound Portland friends. We’re very bummed to be heading back to Minnesota to be packing up the house (it got put on the market yesterday: come and get it y’all!), otherwise we’d be making the pilgrimmage north for the grand event too. We will just have to settle for stopping by when we hit Seattle in Oct/Nov.
Becca
We’re still hoping for a Powell’s reading and signing….
tess
September 16, 2006 at 1:05 pm
54*sniffle* I’m still missing out on all the fun. Why, oh why can’t all the excitement happen somewhere closer to me, like, say, Santa Barbara where I hear the surfing’s nice (not that I surf, but apparently a lot of people I don’t know too well do).
Dale
September 16, 2006 at 4:24 pm
55Ann–if you are in NY Oct 6-8, it is the New Yorker festival, lots of talks/readings/interviews with writers, thinkers, artists etc… Some of it is a bit pricey, and a lot is probably sold out, but as your unappointed NY event planner (apparently I am the only one who lives here anymore?), I felt dutybound to inform. festival.newyorker.com
David
September 16, 2006 at 10:19 pm
56Dale,
You do live in what is still the most important, most rewarding city in America - just not the easiest. And I do love the other great cities that I’ve also been to.
SeattleDan
September 18, 2006 at 8:54 pm
57Just received my first out of state order. From Texas. She found it from the link provided at one of the two Puget Sound NPR stations, the one I give mega-bucks to ‘underwrite’, at www.kplu.org.
Harold, Murray tells me that there aren’t any more Grouseland copies of the multiple signatures…but Tammy, Ann and I (and the not contributing his wisdom enough, JustJay, if he makes it) will be happy to sign. Becca (and Brian) will be out of the area. I hope more of you can make it. Next to the Grouseland event, this is the book signing of the year!
SeattleTammy
September 20, 2006 at 8:18 pm
58Well, crap. This just sucks.
The Seattle Weekly ran the review penned BY AN IDIOT, and our event details.
It’s here:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/authors/davidstoesz/
I am posting the link to the author’s page because it’s important to see the next to last article the dick wad wrote on Iraq. And please remember he’s stayed on staff 3 weeks after the paper was bought by a big NYC conglomerate and 30% or more of the good rats jumped. They are scraping the barrel to get reviewers. In the dead tree issue, there are two reviews lined up, and it looks like good cop, bad cop. They really liked Ken Jennings book.
The copy of Douglas Adams or Adam Felbers that HE read was apparently different from the ones Dan and I read. Maybe he thinks the Adam/Adams thing is funny.
Because we have a proprietory interest in the success of this book and event, it would be unseemly for us to protest, but feel free to have at ‘em!
Harold
September 20, 2006 at 8:31 pm
59“…it’s all lifted straight from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Really? Which version? The radio series? The book? The album? The TV show? The movie? Because I’ve heard, seen, and read them all, multiple times, over the last 26 years. And I can tell that David Stoesz obviously hasn’t. Otherwise he never would have made such a demonstrably wrong statement.
David Stoesz is dead to me. Well, simultaneouly dead and not-dead, which works just as well.
Maybe you should place copies of Douglas Adams’ book near Adam’s book and challenge customers to buy both of them and compare them for themselves.
SeattleDan
September 20, 2006 at 9:23 pm
60LOL, Harold.
I was going to put a couple of copies of Mo’s book next to Adam’s. But you’re such a good merchandiser.
David
September 24, 2006 at 8:17 am
61One, it wasn’t lifted, which is obvious to anyone who’s read both, of course. But the other is that a certain bard was a “lifter,” so the only question for a legit review would be the quality of the heist. Kind of sick at my stomach that this bozo shares my christian name. But as the great Dave Newell said in IF NOTHIN’ DON’T HAPPEN, drawing from his youthful experience working a plow behind a mule, “Life will give you worse than mule wind.”
Segue, what seque, I don’t need no stinkin’ segue.
Harol
September 24, 2006 at 9:51 am
62Agggh. I lost a lovely comment because I’lm at a friend’s computer and forgot to fill in my information! Fine, I’ll just reproduce the first line:
Felbernauts, report! How went the Seattle signing?
ale
September 24, 2006 at 12:26 pm
63In soliarity, harol
George
September 24, 2006 at 12:32 pm
64Did the letter ‘D’ get too expensive?
Lanis
September 24, 2006 at 1:37 pm
65I think it just got worn out. My keyboar seems to be experiencing the same thing. Can I borrow yours George?
ee
September 24, 2006 at 2:00 pm
66You can’t get ri of me that easily!
George
September 24, 2006 at 3:09 pm
67Maybe Harol change his name? Think: Prince
avi
September 24, 2006 at 5:48 pm
68Choppe off at both ens. amne!
Harold
September 24, 2006 at 6:00 pm
69I typed too fast. I was so upset about losing the comment (which also discussed the absence of safety devices on the scissors lift utilized in last night’s Spike Feresten) that I couldn’t think straight. Anyway, I’m home now, at my craptastic PC with my name and other information already stored.
Seattle an
September 24, 2006 at 6:36 pm
70Report on last night’s event of the year will be forthcoming soon. Seattle an and SeattleTammy had to go to the store to reconstruct after the damage. The Felbernauts were well-behaved. It was the trolls and the strippers that went amok.
But what happens at Jackson Street Books, stays at Jackson Street Books.
Seattle an
September 24, 2006 at 10:29 pm
71Not to mention the winged monkeys, the Wookies, assorted talking apple trees, all of whom, decided to show up for Adam’s reading. Who knew? I hadn’t explicitly promoted the event to the denizens of OZ. Or the low-life of Seattle. I guess they knew my reputation.
We have pictures. We will post those as we can. But the lovely Ann, Fran and Tammy all took pictures. You’ll notice that I’m the shorter guy with no hair.
David
September 25, 2006 at 6:35 am
72Oh, thank Lobster Harold’s d is back. I was feeling really truncated and drifting into a quite deep despair. Life without d’s is just not worth living, unless avi has noble connotations in a language as yet unknown to me.
Seattle Dan (can you feel the healing power?),
Will talking apple trees be available through Jackson Street Books’ horticultural (notice the r in horticultural, Seattle Tammy) service?
Go Tigers!
September 25, 2006 at 2:49 pm
73Dee, I was expecting to see something from you about the Tigers. Or are you too busy with champagne right now?
George
September 25, 2006 at 4:00 pm
74I bet Dee would rather break a mirror over a black cat’s head as it passes under a ladder before she will commend her Tigers.
ee
September 25, 2006 at 4:05 pm
75I am quite giddy about the Tigers, but I want the League pennant. I don’t even care about the World Series as much as I do about winning the American League Championship. So I am tempering my celebration.
My celebration is also tempered by the fact that Maude, the world’s most affectionate cat, died today. She had been ailing and I didn’t want to get involved with a complicated medication routine so I just thought I would let Nature take its course. And it did. And now she rests under the forsythia bush and every February I will see her in the blossoms.
I think perhaps the Tigers in the playoffs may have been just too much for her old heart to handle.
(D)ale
September 25, 2006 at 6:06 pm
76(D)ee, I am so sorry to hear about Maude. I am about as obsessed a pet owner as there is, and I know how it feels (MacBeth and Sola, RIP). One more reason for the Big Cats to win it all– in honor of the little cat watching from above. (Another reason is that I am preparing to spend most of my savings on Yankees-Tigers tickets, and if I hear one more Yankee fan gloat about how easy the Tigers will be, I will need bail money as well).
George
September 25, 2006 at 6:11 pm
77Yankee fans gloat?
Harold
September 25, 2006 at 6:57 pm
78My condolences on the death of Maude, dee.
Go Tigers!
September 25, 2006 at 7:26 pm
79Dee, add condolences from SF. Though we are definitely a bird house now, I shared my home with cats while still a Michigander, despite terrible allergies. I totally go with Dale’s logic.
The other reason I want them to go all the way is because I made the best spaghetti sauce ever during the ‘84 series. Our only TV was in the kitchen (a tiny B&W) and if I was going to spend 3 hours in the kitchen watching, I figured I might as well cook too. This time it will be the laptop instead of a TV, but hoping it will still yield some decent results.
David
September 25, 2006 at 9:19 pm
80Dee,
My condolences, too. I love the simple elegance of Maude’s natural passing and your choice of her place of rest from whence she can blossom every spring for you.