June 6th, 2007
I had a really nice time reading at the Tattered Cover tonight. 80 people showed up. This is me with one of my doppelgängers. Her name is Hill, God Destroyer. And here’s Ellen Orleans, a blog regular who’s visiting me in my hotel room as I type this. She says it’s not rude to blog when you have a guest because we live in a postmodern multi-time zone interdimensional age.
Oh, and here’s another blog denizen from last week at Book Expo America. I was signing books at the Houghton Mifflin Booth and this lovely woman introduced herself to me as the Buttock Champion of the World.
June 5th, 2007
I was home from NYC long enough to do my laundry and ink my next strip. Now I’m at the airport on my way to Denver. Come hear me read at the Lodo Tattered Cover tonight at 7:30pm.
Here’s a thing on AfterEllen.com about the Lammy Awards ceremony if you’re interested.
June 1st, 2007
I didn’t take my camera along to the Lambda Book Awards last night because to do so would have meant either schlepping my giant shoulder bag or ruining the lines of my suit. So I have no pictures of the festivities. But here I am this morning with my award–Fun Home won in the Lesbian Memoir/Biography category. I’m really happy about it, although I also have a bit of a migraine, which accounts for my bleary expression. Read the rest of this entry »
May 30th, 2007
I got to the airport in time, my flight took off as scheduled…and here I am this evening hurtling down Fifth Avenue in a cab. The reading went really great! Even though all of you were off working or playing softball or whatever. I don’t know if this link will last, but the reading got a very nice announcment on the New York Magazine website.
Here are Esther Newton and Holly Hughes in the Bunns and Noodle audience. 
May 30th, 2007
Look. Here I am this morning sipping tea in the woods in Vermont. But at 7:00 tonight, if all goes according to plan, I’ll be at the Upper West Side Bunns & Noodle. 2289 Broadway at 82nd St. Come on by.
May 15th, 2007
Look, this came in the mail yesterday. The official publication date is June 5. In a couple weeks I start flitting hither and yon again, and not a moment too soon–I’m almost out of tiny hotel bottles of shampoo. (Uh…I have a dim recollection of having made that feeble shampoo joke before. Sorry if I’m repeating myself. It must be a side-effect of too much travel.) Anyway, come see me read at one of these places:
New York:
May 30: Barnes & Noble, UWS, 2289 Broadway @ 82nd, 7 pm
June 2: Book Expo, BEA, Signing & Panel Events Read the rest of this entry »
May 1st, 2007
My flight from Pittsburgh to New York this morning was, as seems much more likely than not these days, late. It arrived at La Guardia minutes before my connection to Burlington was scheduled to leave. I sprinted the half mile or so from the arrival gate to the departure gate only to find that my Burlington flight was indeed “closed.” They booked me on another flight that will—theoretically—leave in two hours. I started walking aimlessly around the terminal, adjusting to this new plan and Read the rest of this entry »
April 30th, 2007
I’m at the airport again, delayed again, on my way to Pittsburgh. As I while away the time, I thought I’d show you this sticker on the wall next to me, in fortuitous juxtaposition with a sign fragment.
I spent a long, long time yesterday pondering the question “what is the purpose of this blog.” My answer is turning into a treatise, and it’s still not finished. But it occurs to me now that one purpose of the blog, for me anyway, is that it’s a place to put things like this photograph. Things which are kind of interesting in the moment, but beyond that, have absolutely no lasting value. It could be argued that I should not waste my time or yours on such matters. But I’m delayed at the airport. What’s your excuse? And more importantly, speaking of time, can you identify the source of that quotation?
