A reminder that tomorrow at 7:30 PM Pacific time, I'll be doing a Heads in the Sand event at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda. Please come out if you can, since I can't coerce random friends into filling the room.
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06 May 2008 12:39 pm
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I'm up in L.A., and would love to check it out, but you have NO IDEA how hard it is to get to Orange County at 7:30.
I'm with dj. Love to go, but I think I would have to leave Santa Monica at maybe 4:30 to get there for 7:30. Let me know when you are on the Westside.
I suggest you start with, "Good evening, ignorant pigs. Put down your crack pipes and your beer bongs and pay attention."
Hey, maybe all four commenters will come out!
Oh wait, the four above said they can't make it. Which is odd, seeing how the Atlantic calls you a "popular" blogger. Wouldn't that require having more than 5 people comment to your posts?
Things that make ya go hmmmmmmm!!
Did anyone vet this ad appearing every where?
Yes! The popular ATLANTIC blogger trades posts for book prose to tackle foreign policy in HEADS IN THE SAND, proving his sharp mind (and tongue) can go the distance.
Any of his partners want to chime in on the accuracy of the latter? And is that relevant to your book?
Obviously if you were a foriegn policy realist and a Really Serious Person(tm) then you'd know that the only limits to coercion are ones willingness to use it. Have you thought of threatening to obliterate your friends? I wouldn't want Matthew Yglesia picking up the phone at 3am, he's such a pussy.
I'm planning to attend, so at least that's one commenter preparing to go. I imagine that I won't be the only other attendee, being skeptical that the publicity will be limited to attracting Matt's commenters (which would be a strange strategy indeed), who are obviously distributed randomly throughout the country (and beyond).
I suspect Drum may show up as well, since we live in the same neighborhood and that's a short jaunt up the road.
Are you going anywhere else in California? Is there a schedule somewhere of your planned appearances?
That isn't California--that's southern California. California proper is further north.
Ah, yes, the Northern California rivalry with Southern California, to which Southern Californians inevitably respond with a shrug and a "what. ever."
"CALIFORNIAAAAAAAAA KNOWS HOW TO PARTY!"
"since I can't coerce random friends into filling the room."
That's 'cause you don't have any, Matt!
And why? Because you "coerce them into filling rooms" to hawk your lame book - not to mention referring to them as "random friends"!
"Are you going anywhere else in California? Is there a schedule somewhere of your planned appearances?"
Wiley seems to say no.
Oh, you Northern Californians are so cute with your pinchable cheeks and Hetch Hetchy water.
That's a cool early-Seventies-esque "Nixon" logo they've got there on their website! Kudos to their designer. Hopefully they have a room with avocado kitchen appliances and PSA stewardess hotpants on display.
I'll come, but only if you point at me during the Q&A and say, "Yes, Mr. Professor Office Sex, you have a question?"
I'll come, but only if you point at me during the Q&A and say, "Yes, Mr. Professor Office Sex, you have a question?"
I'll come, but only if you point at me during the Q&A and say, "Yes, Mr. Professor Office Sex, you have a question?"
I only meant to post that twice.
Tom F, the PSA stewardess hotpants were burkhas compared to what the Southwest stews wore...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR7JApjgIGw
Hopefully, Matt can get speaking/book signing gigs at other presidential libraries. Johnson's in Austin or Carter's in Atlanta would be fun trips. Trekking to Hoover's in West Branch, IA---umm, less so.
Too bad you're in Yorba Linda - a mistake on the part of your publisher. The best places for a politically oriented book reading in SoCal would be the westside (Brentwood/Westwood/UCLA - home of me, Arianna Huffington, Arnold Schwarzenegger and other intellectuals, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills) or Pasadena - near downtown and Cal Tech. Another reasonable option would have been West Hollywood. All of the above are long ass drives from Yorba Linda which is close to that intellectual hotbed, Disneyland. Keep it in mind for your next book. Good luck with the reading - wish I could come, but way too far away.
As an alumnus, I've just got to point out that the proper capitalization is simply Caltech, not Cal Tech or CalTech or Cal-Tech. Somehow Caltech has done a really poor job of letting the media know what it likes to be called.
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Heads in the Sand
It's not in the fake East Room, is it? I wish I could come for a modified limited hangout.
But if no one shows, remember: only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Posted by Delicious Pundit | May 6, 2008 12:59 PM