Little Brother at Seattle's All For Kids and More this afternoon
This afternoon on the Seattle leg of my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother, I'll be at All For Kids Books and More. I'm here for one more day, coming to Third Place Books on Tuesday, then it's on to San Francisco. Hope to see you!
Link to tour scheduleAll For Kids Books, Seattle, WA
Monday, May 19, 2008
2900 N.E. Blakeley
Seattle, WA 98105
4:00 pm
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Why is Cory (promoting/advertising/pimping) his latest (book/short story/novella) on his blog? I came for the (wonderful things/Xeni is teh hawt/porn) and this is (lame/a sellout/definitely not porn). I guess I'll have to go back to (Digg/MySpace/Habbo Hotel) at least they have porn (fap fap fap).
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Great stuff, Cory.
When is your tour leading you to Europe? :)
Shots!
behaving so that one requires a personal keeper is bad citizenship. It degrades us all because sooner or later, we have to beat you. Every fed-up reader who sooner or later feels they have to throw a bottle at the head of the meepmeeps and scmods of our village is a little more soiled than they need have been. Never mind what Cory thinks of obnoxious guests - I think you're an asshole.
Cory's reading and book signing at the Ballard Public Library was well-attended and well worth the time. Audience ranged from kids to grandparents. Maybe some of them knew of Boing Boing, but I'll bet most did not, and they'll come to the blog by way of Cory's talk. If "Little Brother" is a gateway to greater understanding of personal freedoms and technology, then Cory has a duty to bang the drum loudly. Self-styled insiders may be bored, but for others this is all news. Don't go all Usenet on Cory because he's done something that makes people think, and take first steps toward taking back their rights.
Cory,
I enjoyed the book reading at Elliott Bay on Saturday. I read through the whole book between Saturday night and Sunday. Awesome. It's the best (new) scifi book I've read recently. I can't wait to catch up and read your other books as well.
Cal
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so why do you add to it if it upsets you? Is there a reason why you chose not to comment on the post above or below this one?
Noen @#1: lol, perfect
@#12.
Eighty?
corpse 1 @ 12: ~80 posts is getting to be a little much, especially when they're in a row.
Search-string fail. There aren't actually 80 posts about Little Brother. For example, this is one of the 80 links retrieved by the Google search you linked to: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/02/funny-cingular-broch.html
That's from December, 2004, and doesn't mention Little Brother ANYWHERE in the body of the post. Where it does mention it is in the "Don't Miss" sidebar, the "Recent Comments" sidebar, and the "bbTV Latest Episodes" sidebar.
If you're going to complain about Cory having too many posts about Little Brother, it really weakens your case to be complaining about posts that have nothing to do with Little Brother.
Corpse1:
Meanwhile, searching boingboing.net for "bacon" yields 298 hits. Does everyone who's sick of bacon come and complain about the bacon posts?
Search scalzi.com for "Old Man's War" and you'll get 600+ hits. Search neilgaiman.com for "Coraline" and you'll get over 1000 hits.
What's the big deal?
"But, It doesn't mean its not annoying to see 2 posts about LB a day."
I'm not annoyed. Why are you annoyed? There's plenty else here to read, it's free,it changes every day, I get to say whatever I want about it.
What's your problem?
Always with the f***8**8**g bacon! I quit!
It would never occur to me to Google something that annoys me just so that I could get more annoyed by it. I must be missing a vital part of my personality. I expect sympathy...and shots!
I wasn't gonna say anything, but now that we've opened the floor to the "bacon" discussion, I gotta say that picture of "bacon on boobs" just creeps the hell out of me every time I see it.
A picture of a woman wearing a bacon bikini (bakini?) might make me actually throw up. Specially if it's a thong.
I'm really sorry, but...
bacon strip noun
1 - a long narrow region of hair seated above the mons pubis, usually shaped with waxing, shaving, or tweezing
Synonyms : bikini wax, weasel frosting
Literally LOL. Good one!
Wow, Bacon Zen has somehow joined with Little Brother, what kind of unholy union is this? Am I supposed do do a shot of bacon vodka while subverting big brother, or what?
which one?
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/05/08/9n_gang_wideweb__430x282.jpg
Antinous, I'm confused. Bacon strip or Beggin' Strip?
If you're sick of reading about it, then scroll past it, duh. At first I was annoyed, now it's almost comforting to hear about all the things Little Brother is up to. Cory, do you think you could replace the image of the book cover with some pictures from the events? It would be nice to have a little variety.
Kudos to Noen@1, and Miketo@9's slogan would make a great T-shirt: "Don't go all Usenet on Cory because he's done something that makes people think."
There's lots of stuff on BoingBoing I skip because it doesn't interest me, and lots of stuff I find fascinating that I never even knew would interest me before I saw it, so I'm happy all five of them post whatever they like.
Now to go check Scalzi's Whatever to see if he's done anything interesting with bacon lately.
Actually, what delights me about this post is that it's tagged book and kids rather than civlib. While the book is about fighting for civil liberties (or so I hear, haven't cracked open the PDF yet) and spawned some useful instructables on such, it always seemed a bit misguided to have information on the book tour in that category. Sort of stood out like a sore thumb and diluted the usefulness of tagging.
Hi, Cory: Any chance that you are coming to Powells Books or anywhere else in the Portland, Oregon area? Thanks.
Well technically it's Mark Frauenfelder's blog, on which Cory is one of four co-editors. Cory's blog is at http://craphound.com/ where every post is about one of Cory's books (stands to reason).
Having said that, though, I just finished reading "Little Brother" -- it's a cracking good read, and I'd recommend it to anybody!
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