I’m easing my way back into my blogging routine. A jarring revelation this weekend woke me to the fact that I fear I’ve lost my creative and motivational mojo lately and I’s gots to get it back. I feared the corporate world would do this to but in fewer than 18 months? I’m not that weak minded, so I’m coming out swinging this week. I’ve been trying to craft my thoughts on the creative process in the workplace and how the two can get along better or better at my house anyway. Keep an eye peeled for these less than earth shattering posts this week and in the meantime, enjoy some blog candy…..
Book People say the Darndeset Things
Check the podcast widget on the right column of the blog to listen to a series of roving, on the spot, podcast chats I did from all over BEA last month. I can’t bring myself to listen to them for fear of complete humiliation, which means you may very well be entertained by them. Really, it’s fun; it’s just me walking around BookExpo talking with people that I run into. I have two posted and have 3 or 4 more to add.
A Sign From God - Literally
Make your own church sign, just click here! This is great and reminiscent of a book that I think I saw at Elm Street Books in New Canaan, but I might be wrong. Anybody have any ideas?
Cliffs Notes
I caught this on the Newsarama Blog, it’s actually an excerpt from the Bully Comics blog posting from Comic-Con in San Diego this week (Bully also did great blog and pictorial coverage of BEA as well):
“It’s an incredibly busy day: Friday day tickets are sold out so we’re at full capacity here, but unlike BookExpo America at the Javits Center in New York this past June, the AC is cranked up to ‘Hoth’ and it’s pleasant to work and move about. ‘Here they come!’ shouts someone down the aisle, and while my natural impulse is to cry back ‘Walkin’ down the street, get the funniest looks from everyone they meet!’ it’s actually the cry to arms for dealers and exhibitors to batten down the hatches: the con attendees are on the floor.”
Patton Oswalt’s Comic-Con scavenger hunt on his MySpace blog is awesome, number 10 is my favorite.
The Simpson’s Movie rocked! My favorite moment may have been when the entire theatre of 16 year olds started singing along with Homer, “Spiderpig, Spiderpig, does whatever a Spiderpig does….”
Please listen to WNYC’s the Sunday Show with Jonathan Schwartz, I beg you. It’s great jazz (amongst other eclectic music) but Schwartz is a true character. He’s got the soothing whispered voice you’d expect form a jazz aficionado spinning records on public radio but he’s also got a quirky, out of left field, existential bend as well. For instance he may segue from a story about Coleman Hawkins to the fact that he hates eating warm egg salad and then introduce a tune from the 1986 Broadway musical Brownstone. I can’t explain it, just listen.
-L
BookExpo America event director Lance Fensterman sends us a "totally unposed" photograph of Bob The Cat curled up with several good books. "This fits well with a long dream of mine and HarperCollins' Carl Lennertz to produce a cute cat calendar," Fensterman confides. "I think I speak for both of us when I saythat the world cannot have enough of them." We've got nearly enough photos to make it happen, but I'm still going to hang back and let those two chase their dream...at least until the end of 2008. If they haven't got it together by then, we're moving in, because I've got this idea I call "Cats on My Stuff" that I think'll be huge.
