Powell’s, Portland OR
June 16th, 2006 | Uncategorized
Man! What a day. Up at 6 to fly from SF to Portland. A radio interview at KBOO. A pit stop at my hotel for a shower. A trip to In Other Words, the very pleasant women’s bookstore here. Then to the Powells.com warehouse building, where I had a really fun conversation with Craig Thompson, comix wunderkind, which will be published in the Powell’s newsletter at some point. Then off to Powell’s proper, the downtown bookstore, where there was a frickin’ HU-UUGE crowd to hear me read. What an audience! What a city! But whenever I say that to people from Portland they get all nervous and tell me not to move here because there’s already too many people.
That’s me in the middle of the room, running my powerpoint show. This was a good setup. Standing in the audience, or behind them, works better than standing up front. Because up front I have to look at my laptop. In the back, I’m looking at what the audience is looking at, which feels better.
Now it’s almost midnight. I just had my room service dinner. And I’m starting to crash.
3 Responses to “Powell’s, Portland OR”
I am becoming increasingly jealous that we didn’t get the Power Point in Washington, D.C. I hope a return engagement is considered.
Howdy, Alison! It was great meeting you (briefly) at Powell’s last night, and thanks for giving such a great talk! I read the first half of Fun Home after I got home, and it’s at least as good as I’ve heard it would be. Have fun on the rest of the tour!
*sniff* For reasons way too sordid and complex to explain in this forum, I didn’t make it to Portland after all…….but it looks like it was wonderful. Yes, we Oregonians tend to want the state to ourselves, but I am sure we would be happy to make room for you Alison! Good luck on the rest of the tour and get some rest!!!!!!
*sniff*