I’ll post again soon, but I’m just checking in to make sure everyone’s doing okay. Is everyone all right? Can I get you anything?
If you’re looking for some action, the discussion on the thread below has gotten nice and intense. All I can say is that I personally object to any and all belief systems, including atheism and agnosticism. Those damn agnostics, lemme tellya, always so smug about knowing so much more than everybody else about what they say is totally unknowable… it burns me up.
But I digress (from saying that I don’t have time to say anything). I’ll leave the light on around here; make sure you tidy up after yourselves.
Fanny Roborat
27 comments
It's Pat!
September 21, 2006 at 5:34 am
1Hi Adam,
I just finished the book, and I think the book affirms your statment about belief systems - I think. Like Grant, I have to process. Really enjoyed it, however. Did you draw the picture? It was a nice surprise to turn the page and see it.
dee
September 21, 2006 at 5:35 am
2Shouldn’t you be out getting your legs waxed for your appearance at Jackson Street Books tomorrow? First impressions = lasting impressions.
bri
September 21, 2006 at 6:46 am
3where’s the beer?
David
September 21, 2006 at 8:31 am
4With you all the way on belief systems.
I’d like a whiskey sour.
Benjamin
September 21, 2006 at 10:05 am
5I’m halfway through the book and I’m very much enjoying it. I’m pacing myself so it lasts longer. Adam, get started on the next one soon please.
I’ve been a lurker and comment stalker (always reading everyone elses hardly ever posting my own) for years and I was a bit over anxious to read Adam’s book, I was nervous my expectations were too high. I needn’t worried.
Wish I could make it down to Jackson Street for tomorrow’s happening but work and children will keep me up in Bellingham. To all who make it, have fun and someone please post pictures.
Julia
September 21, 2006 at 10:25 am
6Oh, Benjamin - you said it FOR me.
I disappeared from here for awhile because I was worried that, shall we say, the book and I wouldn’t “gel.”
Not that I didn’t have faith in Our Founder; it’s just that the people who are good in one form and the people who are good in another form are not…always the same people.
However, I finished the book and liked it very much and will happily pimp it out on another blog or two.
Adam, thank you for the entertainment (from the first reading, and from the future readings.) If it helps at alll, I waited nearly two YEARS before buying Scott Simon’s book.
Now, having got that off my chest, make mine an Aberlour, please, straight up. Wait - if Author Famous is buying, make it a Bunnahabhain, please!
Ann
September 21, 2006 at 11:23 am
7Adam, you shoulda been here in Seattle last month—it was remarkably dry and sunny. Sadly, the rainy season has started. We’ll just have to stay indoors and drink.
dee
September 21, 2006 at 11:53 am
8We’ll just have to stay indoors and drink.
I’m sorry — what was your original plan?
It's Pat!
September 21, 2006 at 12:30 pm
9Whoops! I should have read the Appendix and the Acknowledgements. All my questions were answered. I have started to read only the Schroedinger parts again (if you have read the book, I think you know what I mean). This is really one of those books I will have to read twice to fully enjoy. Then I’ll read it aloud in a box and see what happens.
Ann
September 21, 2006 at 12:43 pm
10It’s traditional—on nice days—to make visitors go to the top of the Space Needle and admire the scenery. Then we drag them to the Pike Place Market to watch guys throw dead fish around. Stuff like that.
Poor Adam—he won’t get the opportunity!
Harold
September 21, 2006 at 12:54 pm
11This is my major objection to both “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Office” (U.S. version.) These shows are set in two cities famous for crappy weather (Seattle and Scranton), yet I don’t think the weather has figured prominently in either one.
Ann
September 21, 2006 at 2:31 pm
12Au contraire. Anytime Whiny Meridith is feeling blue, it rains.
SeattleDan
September 21, 2006 at 8:06 pm
13Benjamin, sorry you cant make it for the Event of the Year. If you’d like a signed copy, let me know. Otherwise make that those good people at Village Books stock the book.
And good news. Saturday is going to be a sunny day here in Seattle. And you all know that the bluest skies you’ll see are in Seattle.
SeattleDan
September 21, 2006 at 8:08 pm
14And, Adam, thanks for asking. A gin martini (shaken, not stirred), up, with olives would be very good right about now.
SeattleTammy
September 21, 2006 at 11:28 pm
15Adam, I have secret communications from the publicity department. The transcribe is as follows:
“Either Dan Domike or his wife Tammy will meet you in the lobby of the ****** and bring to/from the signing. They will be carrying a copy of SCHRODINGER’S BALL for identification. ”
Walk over to the trashy blonde woman who is waving your book over her head and whisper in her ear, “I’m the freakin author! The Lobster stalks at midnight so take me to the bookstore!”
she will have surveilled the outside perimeter and will tell you if you are going anywhere in this freakin Mariner traffic.
I’m used to this sorta duty. I will make it all smooth and pretty. Just remember to mention the Lobster.
seattletammy aka biblioho
I’m getting the car washed!
Harold
September 22, 2006 at 4:40 am
16Tammy, to make it easier to identify Adam…he looks a lot like that guy who was trying to return a porno video to Ye Olde Porno Shoppe on last week’s episode of “Talkshow With Spike Feresten”!
cooper
September 22, 2006 at 4:50 am
17SeattleTammy, getting the car washed in Seattle, from my experience, means you’ll leave the car out of the garage tonight. Seattle, the city of clean cars.
Be nice to our pal Adam; say “Hi” from cooper. The Lobster cowers under the rock at noon (lunchtime!).
Becca (and Brian)
September 22, 2006 at 6:52 am
18We’ll drink a glass in honor of Jackson Street and Adam tomorrow from Minneapolis (where, I’m pleased to report, it is raining in solidarity with Seattle). Can’t wait to get our copy to read.
B (&B)
Ann
September 22, 2006 at 11:15 am
19Adam, a couple of my friends are going to be at the signing, and I told them I’d introduce you. I also told them that you and I were “tight,” and that you’d invited me to be on Spike’s show. I might have gone a little bit overboard, but back me up just this once, wouldja?
Harold
September 22, 2006 at 5:28 pm
20SeattleEverybody: Don’t forget, pictures! Lots and lots of pictures!
SeattlesDan and Tammy: Have you dropped hints that Susam Sarandon and/or Maureen Dowd may be stopping by at the book signing? That may draw in a few more people…and I’m sure Ann will play along!
SeattleTammy
September 22, 2006 at 6:47 pm
21Brilliant Harold!
I’m writing “special guest: Maureen Dowd!” on all the posters now!
You merchandise, you write my posters, when are you going to come out here and run the store for a few days? We need help Oct 12-14th. hint.
Got some nibbles at Costco, and looking for a cheap box-o-beer, I found Rogue Brews’ “Dead Guy Ale” apropos- I think? We won’t know until we open the box…
Ann, WHAT are you going to wear???
that has been left un-answered…
Harold
September 22, 2006 at 7:13 pm
22OH MY GOD. Dead Guy Ale is anything but cheap. And the paint on the bottles glows in the dark!
SeattleTammy
September 22, 2006 at 7:49 pm
23COOL!
somebody bring a blacklight!
Fran
September 22, 2006 at 9:41 pm
24I’m bringing the camera! Somebody else gets to bring the blacklight!
David
September 24, 2006 at 7:44 am
25I made it as far as Ogallala, Nebraska, but then had to turn back.I’m beginning to feel like the adventurer who couldn’t.
The Ball is currently being read by at least one inmate at FCI Jesup (Georgia), Will report back with the review from behind the razor wire. Special thanks to Team Seattle for getting the book there as promised.
Biblioho? I love it.
Becca (and Brian)
September 25, 2006 at 5:40 am
26So……?
Inquiring minds want to know how it went (and see pictures!).
Thinking literary thoughts in Minneapolis….
becca
Ann
September 25, 2006 at 10:06 am
27It was great fun, and Adam was charming as ever. Unfortunately, my secret identity as “Ann” has been blown, so I’ll have to go undercover for a while. If a lot of new names show up on the comments board, spewing random nonsense, that’ll be me.
SeattleDan and SeattleTammy will tell you all about the book-signing!