I guess I should mention <a href=” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13422333/ “_blank”>this.</a> Vote early and often, but don’t feel obligated to vote for me.
(Although, fyi, I hear that the folks over at Cormac McCarthy’s blog are going nuts, but you know how they are, with the matching T-shirts and the recipes and all the little in-jokes.)
Meanwhile, I was thinking this weekend that it would be cool if we had a TMP book club, but I’m way too lazy to get it going. So let me just recommend that everyone go out and read <a href=” http://www.palmbeachpost.com/arts/content/entertainment/arts_entertainment/epaper/2007/08/26/a6j_feabooks_pendle_0826.html “_blank”>this</a> right now, if only for the Arthur-Schlesinger-gave-me-a-wedgie-joke.
DONE.
If Gore wins, I’m going straight to the Florida Supreme Court to settle things.
Is anyone else having a problem getting the various places on Quill to open? I can’t get into anything, much less vote.
The Millard Fillmore book opened fine. Laura, do you recall when this president’s birthday was celebrated in Baltimore for several years. Rae and Harry Rossen were the instigators. It was fun.
I’m all over that Fillmore book, especially since I had to read REAL biographies of James Buchanan for work last year… I feel owed.
You can try cutting and pasting this, June: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13422333/
The really embarrassing thing about the Fillmore book? My dad reviewed it back in May and I missed the review.
It has a similar vibe to Patrick Dennis’s Little Me and . . . . oh lord, I’m blanking on the one about the first lady. Not quite as broad and dependent upon the reader knowing enough about American history to get the jokes.
Done.
That Fillmore book looks like a hoot, though I must confess a twinge of disappointment that it wasn’t about Bill Graham’s rock palaces…must be some smokin’ stories about those venues, too.
And I love the image of the little McCarthyites scuttling around in a panic…
Must be something wrong with my computer. I got to MSNBC and Quills but I still can’t get in. Earlier I had gone directly to Quills with the same result. Sorry I can’t get a vote in. Someone please do a double for me.
One from NC.
June,
I think you only get to vote twice in municipal Baltimore elections. <g>
(Memo to self: Do not forget walking-around money as deadline draws nearer.)
When Fillmore’s wife dies, he notes in his journals that “for 27 years, my entire married life, I was always greeted with a shake of the head, a rolling of her eyes, or a low-muttered comment I could not quite hear. Alas, no more.”
How hilarious!
Will use your link to go vote, Laura. Thanks.
Laura: My vote is in…and I have to say, if the book is as hilarious as the review makes it sound, I’m going to love reading it! At the library, alas; “new” car payments plus insurance = broke most of the time
(Note to self: FINISH GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL!)
I can’t get in to vote on either addy. It keeps asking me if I want to view the list of nominees and when I click on that there is no list only an option to go back to the first page.
Sly
I’ve been voting for Rombauer in my kitchen for 25 years. It’s your turn
Ab
Done and good luck.
The vote is cast…twice. (Never underestimate the value of having both home and office computers). And I MUST have this Fillmore book.
Vote early and often, that’s my motto!
I am soooo stopping at The Tattered Cover on my way to work today to get a copy of the Millard Fillmore book. In fact, back in my youth I once sat in a chair that had been owned by Millard Fillmore.