Saturday, April 22, 2006

Please Don't Ever Let Me Publish...

Was just at a big, corporate bookstore getting a birthday present for a friend. There was a very bored-looking man sitting behind a table full of books written by himself. He wrote a book on The Angels. Not the kind with wings, but the team that hit a ball with a bat. He checked the time on his cell phone. I felt sorry for him. I kind of wanted to talk to him out of pity, but his fucking book was about baseball - what the hell am I supposed to do? I couldn't even properly feign interest in the subject matter. Nothing for me to ask, nothing for me to roll with, so I bought my book and left the store. I was thinking about how crappy the guy must've felt - I mean, nobody was paying attention to him. When I got home I realized that the friend of mine that I had just spent thirty dollars on, on an Orson Scott Card book was a HUGE Angels fan and probably would've LOVED a signed book by the author. I'll tell my friend this later. He'll ask me whom the author was. I'll tell him I don't remember. I kind of suck. There's a moral in here somewhere. Oh, wait - maybe that was it...

4 comments:

  1. Oh!! It worked!! nevermind. I'm not embarassed anymore.



    Thank you for doing that...I know you're busy, and personally I fucking hate messing with my template.

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  2. If you ever publish, I'll personally fly from Hawaii to LA to buy your book.

    I'll be the guy standing behind you about to hit you in the head with a shovel.

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  3. Anonymous4:10 AM

    I will sign your shovel for a small fee.

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  4. Just mark it 'X'.

    I can't read.

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