Little Brother signing at the Seattle Public Library this afternoon
Today on the Seattle leg of my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother, I'll be at the Seattle Public Library -- I'm in town for two more days, and I'll be at All For Kids Books and More on Monday and Third Place Books on Tuesday. Hope to see you!
Link to tour scheduleSeattle Public Library, Seattle, WA
5614 22nd Avenue, NW
Seattle, WA 98107
Sunday, May 18, 2008
2:00 pm
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I don't mind short "Hey, if you want to meet me in person, I'm doing a signing at ..." posts. BB *is* Cory's blog, after all.
But it might be more useful to actually have a separate "calendar" section.
For those who are upset by seeing Cory Doctorow's plugs for his books, just move on to the next post and shut up. The internet is about ads, just like TV and radio. And in this day in age a young, aggressive author like Doctorow understands the importance of promotion. That's just the way it is. He's acting as a role model for other writers that want to succeed in a very competitive field--IMHO.
@1; Drink up, everybody. And make 'em doubles.
Cory wrote a book?
willofthe - vanity press? And on his own blog no less! The horror!
first two posts are one and only and therefore tagged
I'm getting a tinge of Heavy Sarcasm from #2, don't know for sure.
Actually, I kind of like getting a peek at the inner workings. It's easy to buy a book, read it, and never know what effort was required to create it. (Or what it takes to make a go of it in that business.)
Keep sharing, Cory.
Swing by Portland, please. I hear the people likes books there.
two posts, Coresoup, and one of them insolent?
@13 SHOTS!!
Bottoms Up! (It's a little early on a Sunday though).
not for me. Now I must go and mend a fence.
Dammit Cory, I'm not getting enough Little Brother in my Boing mix.
I mean... you ARE one of the Boingers, aren't you? Which makes this at least PARTLY your blog, doesn't it?
Lexica & I are going to be in Berzerkeley Wed night (and I better hear about any schedule changes right here in the blog you help write for free so the rest of us can have access to wonderful things).
We'll be expecting explanations of the low LB/noise ratio along with an autograph, baby.
This is the East Bay, dude. We don't fck around.
;-)
So when is Cory coming to Minnesota? We read books too ya know. In fact, we lead the nation in book reading-ness or something like that. You can only ice fish for so long .
Forget about Noen, I hear Cory is scared of Lutefisk.
Oops, sorry... fat fingers. Forget about IT, Noen....
Who isn't? Scared of lutefisk, I mean. I've eaten raw octopus and insects and I've never even -seen- lutefisk in person but the talk of it is enough to terrify me.
So when is Cory coming to Minnesota?
Are the roads cleared of snow yet? It's only mid-May.
This chronic pissing and moaning makes me larf.
I read the book and Corey's already been through Chicago, so I would normally bypass these posts. Instead, I look forward to them because all the tooth-gnashing/hair-pulling/clothes-rending is just so damned FUNNY.
Corey's got a few more stops this week: two in Berkeley, CA and one in San Francisco, so look for more Little Brother news through the 22nd, at least.
Either tune out, log off, and shut up -- or scroll on.
(we now return you to your regularly scheduled bitching . . . .)
First timer. Double shot!
crios @ 20: I'm sorry but the Little Brother stuff is getting to be too much…
*collapses in helpless laughter*
*wipes away tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes*
This is like that comedy technique where a joke is retold so many times it goes from mildly funny to unfunny to COMPLETELY unfunny to hysterical. What's that called?
What's that called?
Motive. Add weapon and opportunity and stir.
Hey people,
Bitching about Cory pimping himself is useless.
Bitching about people bitching about Cory pimping himself is also useless.
So I've gone and done something useful and entered all of the upcoming events into LibraryThing Local. Which is more for LTL's sake than Cory's, but whatever, it's better than lurking around here.
Bitching about people bitching about Cory pimping himself is also useless.
If someone is ripping you a new asshole, do you want your friends to stand around staring at their toes or do you want them to defend you? Which one would make you feel better at the end of the day? Besides, we've turned it into a drinking game.
Well, if I had been doing the same thing for several weeks now, and people were still bitching about it, and I decided to ignore them and continue on doing what I'm doing; it really doesn't matter whether my friends defend me or not, I've already made my decision and I'm proudly sticking by it.
Like you all keep saying, it's Cory's blog. He doesn't need us to defend him.
Hey Cory, why haven't you pimped the CBLDF event you're doing yet? It's only... a week away, and since there are tickets that must be purchased, you might want to give people a heads up.
(Also, please give people a heads up that Comix has a two-item order minimum. Ugh.)
Personally, I'm enjoying reading the book and it's very interesting to watch a bestseller in the making. This book is selling STRONGLY and it's a privilege to have the author sharing with us his support of it.
Maybe the LB overexposure kerfuffle has done Boing Boing a service as well by bringing so many new commenters into the fold. Their first posts may be CATFOTFIC, but perhaps they will come back to contribute and broaden the dialog.
Note: The numbering is confused because of Mysterious Forces Acting Behind the Scenes.
Point of order: If I do a shot and the offending CATFOTFIC subsequently gets disappeared, do I have to sober up?
do I have to sober up?
Would you still be fun?
The address is for the Ballard branch of the Seattle Public Library, not the downtown branch. The library web site confirms this.
So now a guy who asks what disemvowelling is, and another guy who tells him (me), get their posts deleted. The touchiness on here is getting out of hand.
NB Sorry if this makes little sense owing to the censorship of the original posts.
take it over to the moderation thread, this one is about a book
is there irony inherent in the group-censorship of a post concerning a book about a totalitarian state?
Shots! This game is gonna kill my liver.
"This game is gonna kill my liver"
But for such a good cause. Barkeep! Set 'em up!
I just ordered a copy.
See, I figure if I buy a copy and I don't like it, then I'll have like...reasons to complain or even some kind of constructive argument based on the stuff in the book to throw out.
You know, conversation like.
I'm aware of the book because it was promoted here.
The way it was promoted made me look into it.
I bought it because it looks like an interesting premise and I like Cory's work here and elsewhere.
Looks like his fiendish plan to leverage the exposure his blog would bring worked, at least on me.
That's like what, the 17th sign of the apocyclipse of something, right?
I'd have spent the money to buy the guy lunch anyway.
(As it is he's only probably getting a coffee's worth of THAT.)
Bully for Cory.
I think I see a whole new unwholesome motivation for sock puppetry
I think that there are only a couple of people involved in this barrage. 'People' being used loosely.
Backlash as a sales strategy? The mind recoils from the very concept.
oh, of course the static is coming from the same pair, I'm talking about how a certain someone keeps getting shots. Ross; are you paying these guys?
On a tangent...
My wife picked the book up for me (dead tree edition) for reading material for our family trip to Disneyland (the fam is currently having siesta). Given that I live in SF (setting for the book) and pass through many of the referenced locales on a daily basis, I'm enjoying the book in a "ZOMG we're doomed!" sort of way. (Well, that and it's well written...) For the contemporary technophile the exposition about such things as public-key-crypto are unnecessary, but we're not the target audience - the book is intended to educate and scare the crap out of people who don't know what liberties are being stripped away.
It reinforces the fun of passing through Disney's "security theater" at the park entrance, of course. I just take everything out of my satchel, hold my in my hand and let them glance into an empty bag and wave me through. I won't be terribly surprised when park passes/re-entrance stamps are replaced by injected RFIDs. *sigh*
Still, it is a fun simulacra to visit. My son's got Heelys now so he's zipping around the park as an augmented human, putting the crowd-dodging skills of his baseline-human elders to shame.
@40, Antinous - hard to know, of course, if posts are deleted.
sometimes we all catch a little buckshot in the melee. If there is an undeniable pattern of unfairness, by all means: fight. But what's a little accidental, incidental blood among friends?
another ISP address to ban, sigh..
I was there. The third new hardcover book I've bought in my life, but I read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom online so I wanted to give something back.
sometimes we all catch a little buckshot in the melee.
I've never heard it called a mêlée before. It sure hurts picking the shot out though.
Antinous
Are the roads cleared of snow yet? It's only mid-May.
Laugh it up desert boy. I figure with global warming, Minnesota is the new South.
Tenn
Who isn't? Scared of lutefisk, I mean.
Lutefisk Jelly
Boo.
Noen, am I mistaken, or are the fork tines in that photo melting?
Oh, that's just awful. Married to a daughter of Norway, I endured many indignities in the name of Traditional Cuisine. Note that it's a stainless steel fork. Silver turns black upon contact from the high Ph.
I'll see that and raise you
http://www.simnet.is/gullis/jo/shark.htm
"Putrefied shark can become spoiled"
You have got to be kidding me.
Recipe for dried cod:
soak cod in lye
nail cod to a board to dry
Throw away cod
eat board.
Heard that one at least once a year at a decade of Scandinavian holiday dinners, and everyone laughed every time. Sweet people.
or the Durian of the Sea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusaya
"are the fork tines in that photo melting?"
Wouldn't surprise me. I bow to Takuan, I can't top that. Actually, I'm not even Scandinavian, I'm German. Most of my relatives live in the Amana Colonies area.
That recipe is terrifying. It makes lutefisk look cute and friendly. It is the worst recipe I have ever seen.
Archaic Scandinavian cuisine is generally awful. I figure it explains the Vikings: "Snorri, I swear, you gotta come with us next time. Y'know those Frankish dudes we've been raiding? They've got food that doesn't hurt!"
Snorri. LOL!
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Cory gets to keep promoting, and you can go back to business as usual.