It worked!
May 30th, 2007 | Travels and Appearances
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. 
30 Responses to “It worked!”
May 31st, 2007 at 3:00 am
cute cab picture! wish i was there.
May 31st, 2007 at 8:14 am
Oh, I was so looking forward to seeing you, but I hadn’t finished moving in time, so had to stay home and carry boxes up and down the stairs instead.
I did check out the paperback in the store the other day, and it looks great! Congratulations! Love the shiny cover.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:13 am
I really enjoyed the reading, and it was great to hear about the process and extensive research that went into each panel.
Thank you, and thank you for the many hours of enjoyment reading Fun Home and DTWOF.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:20 am
I was there! AB was awesome, and nice even to the old guy who wanted to know if her dad loved his kids any less because he was gay. I went up to get my book signed at the end and got all shy and tougue-tied. I finally blurted out, “DTWOF has been really important to me … in my life!” What a dork. BUT it did lead me to think about what I meant by that, since it’s actually kind of true. And rule #1 that I’ve learned from Alison’s work? It’s ok to be a dork. Thanks, AB!
May 31st, 2007 at 10:07 am
Same old Holly! You look very chic barelling along Fifth Avenue in that cab, by the way!
May 31st, 2007 at 10:17 am
Great reading, and a huge turnout! Good job, Alison!
May 31st, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Ha, so that was Holly Hughes there! Nifty! I too got to go, and was very gratified that AB recognized me by name as “from my blog”. It’s true! I totally only exist exclusively on this blog!
Gratified and a bit startled… and I realized suddenly that I’d been too absorbed in the presentation to attempt to prepare a scintillating comment when face to face… drat! Such as `It’s a mighty priviledge and very great pleasure to finally grasp your limber, adroit and captivatingly elegant hand… *eyelash flutter*’.
Hmm. Well, maybe I should’ve just squealed, as was my first impluse.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
The look on that guys face on the right is priceless. It’s like “I’m not really with these people. This was the last seat available…”
May 31st, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I dunno. The expression looked to me more like: “Kids! They never change, do they?”
Jana C.H.
Seattle
Saith Floss Forbes: If you don’t know the tune, sing tenor.
May 31st, 2007 at 3:04 pm
It ought to be mentioned that that’s a VERY sexy pic of our Alison on the New York Magazine website…
May 31st, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Jana, time to freshen your tag. How many times can we see the same quote without our eyes glazing over?
May 31st, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Kate– Actually I have a whole list of tag lines, but the one quoting my grandmother is the original, and it’s still the one I use when (1) I don’t have any particular theme to tie in with, (2)the subject is musical, or (3) I’m too lazy or too busy to pull up my tag line list and pick one.
In the case of the previous note, the reason was a combination of (1) and (3). As is the case with this note.
Jana C.H.
Seattle
Saith E.G. Forbes: Never spoil a good story with too much truth.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Holy… I was sitting on my butt on my futon with my cats when I could have been hanging with Alison. I can’t believe I missed this!
May 31st, 2007 at 9:53 pm
I think the man on the right is cute,and doesn’t look pained at all. Why,he’s probably thinking about the best way to tell his straight male friends about DTWOF,thus taking some of the heat off Josiah.
Today a student asked if I thought a certain rap artist she was doing a project on was sexy. I said no,I preferred Denzel Washington; he was fantastic as Malcolm in the film X.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Did anyone go to the Lambda Literary Awards tonight? Did Alison win big?
Fingers crossed for her and my other friends nominated for awards. (I know…they are ALL winners. Still.)
May 31st, 2007 at 10:48 pm
LOL @ Sir Real
Seriously, I wish someone can YouTube one reading. *sigh*
May 31st, 2007 at 11:17 pm
I was there and dorked out too. A bit too much to say and no way to condense it. I managed a coupla weak “thank yous,” which did absolutely nothing to convey my gratitude for Fun Home–and how it resonates with my own non-grief at the recent death of a family member.
I also missed the opportunity to shamelessly exploit the fact that I, too, went to Oberlin.
Great reading–the part about your creative process was particularly interesting. Thanks again.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:30 pm
I love a good quote, but if you think about it, tag lines are kind of like space garbage, or bad signal. They are the personal commercials of comment pages and message boards. They aren’t as bad as animated emoticons, of course. I count my blessings.
I only point out that because we are reading the comments, we are required to read and process your every tag line every time you post, small bits of each of our consciousness gone forever on non-productive errands we’ve been on before. If I had a quote as my tag line, it would surely be E.B. White’s great advice to writers:
“Omit needless words.”
May 31st, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Yay! I got to go to the reading! I got my Fun Home book signed! I still don’t know how the meeting I missed turned out, but I do think this was the better of the two. Thanks for the reading.
Yay!
June 1st, 2007 at 12:13 am
Congratulations on the Lammie! Glad I stuck around for the In Memoriam slide show. Every time I see Barbara Gittings, I remember that when I was about 21, my girlfriend and I interviewed her for college radio, and we acted like she was the oldest woman in history. Doing the math, she would’ve been around 50, a number I’m not so far off myself these days!
June 1st, 2007 at 12:51 am
wow. I had the privelege of taking a class with Esther Newton once. She’s dreamy.
June 1st, 2007 at 12:52 am
Jana,
I LOVE all your quotes, and you can post that one every time you write if you want to; for me, it’s a pleasure to read it.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:10 am
Aw, Feminista, I’m not feeling too much heat.
And Jana, I love your quotes. They’re one of those little character touches that makes this blog feel like a community.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:53 am
Thank you, Shado and Josiah. I trust everyone realizes that my gramdmother’s quotation does NOT mean that tenors can’t sing in tune.
Jana C.H.
Seattle
Saith Martha Forbes H.: Ovens are for baking, not cleaning.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:10 am
esther newton was the first real-life lesbian i was ever aware of. i was 17 in 1985 and took a class called Rebels Freaks and Prophets. until then, i just thought lesbianism was a nice idea my Barbies had come up with…come to think of it, sometimes, i still do…
June 1st, 2007 at 10:53 am
Hey UK fans: The Comics Journal board reports that Diamond Distribution undershipped the latest issue of the Journal to the UK by ten percent — 220 had been ordered, 22 had been sent — so if you missed your copy of the issue with Alison’s interview, the shops should be getting them … now.
I like Jana’s taglines and may start putting tags on my own posts here.
Saith MC: I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it, if you don’t mind me making fun of you while you say it.
June 1st, 2007 at 11:20 am
Just for the record, that nice young man sitting next to Holly and Esther was indeed with them. He’s a student of Holly’s.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:03 pm
well, that explains it! it takes a lot of . . . . something to look unconcerned when your instructor’s freaking out. I guess he could also have guffawed or otherwise joined the merriment. maybe it was Alison who evoked such a powerful response?
June 1st, 2007 at 3:06 pm
for Jana C.H.:
Keep ‘em comin’,yo.
June 4th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I’m late on the uptake but it’s nice to catch up. Jana, you’re a hoot. Alison, mazel tov! Agreed on the photo in NY magazine - gorgeous.