Website’s been updated. Click on the above.
I’m also participating in <a href=”http://significantobjects.com/2009/09/23/motel-room-key/”>Significant Objects</a>, a very cool project that the link describes better than I can.
Bid me up! (I had a link going straight to eBay, but I can’t get Journalscape to show it.)
(An aside: Who knew there were so many motel keys on eBay?)
I am still amazed someone wanted to pay $26 for the unicorn I wrote a story about. (And Doug Dorst’s object sold for almost 200 bucks! What!!!)
It’s a wonderful idea, all around. eBay and stories!
so speaking of being a fangirl(or whatever I am at this age) I just learned that I get to attend the Washington Post breakfast for the Library of Congress book festival(the other place I’ve seen you besides P&P). I am very excited- I hope I do not slobber on Junot Diaz.
I am going to Paris in March- I will think about mac and cheese at the Hotel Bristol.
Andrea,
Junot Diaz! Paris! Let’s swap lives this fall.
Actually, I think I was invited back to the Book Festival this fall (or was it last fall) and I declined because of my writing schedule. But it’s a great, great event. My first time, I got to ride in an elevator with Jacques Pepin, who was very insistent on hailing cabs for Sue Monk Kidd and me. (Names falling like anvils in a Roadrunner cartoon this a.m.) If I ever get a chance to meet him again, I will chat him up about his baked kale recipe.
I hadn’t heard about the closing of the Brass Elephant. Dammit. What a beautiful space that was.
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Significant Objects’ <a href=”http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250503304191″ target=”_blank”>Motel Room Key</a> on eBay.
Someone has an automatic bid on your key — I am cheap enough I do not want to go beyond $10.
Nicholson Baker got $51 for a meat thermometer! Stewart O’Nan commanded $71 for a duck! Curtis Sittenfeld conjured up $17.50 worth of interest in one of the kitchiest things I have ever seen in my life. Please do not shame me in front of the literary folks.
I’m not too proud to bid on my own item, but I have much more serious fish to fry on eBay right now.
I just bought a hotel key on Ebay from Denver’s Brown Palace Hotel. I, too was amazed at the number of keys available. I love Signigicant Objects.
Help me out here, please. Is the Memory Project a thing of the past? Must we access Facebook in order to participate in discussions?
No, The Memory Project is very much a thing of the present! But I now X-post to a Facebook Fan Page. (That’s the link on the Journalscape home page.)
TMP folks still get all the TMP-y goodness they crave. But they can go to the Facebook page, where non-TMP types might be found and they can also post links to that wall. You do NOT have to be a Facebook member to view a fan page, which is why I set one up.
The website might be less active as a result, but I expect this and the FB page will be more active.
(When I said the website had been updated, I was referring specially to the link above that says “My website.” Not the FB link. But if you were to click on the FB link, you’d find what’s here, but also some other comments, discussions that more Lippman, less memory.)