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Toast Failure

June 24th, 2006 | Uncategorized

I am SO, SO sorry to anyone who showed up at the Toast Lounge in Somerville tonight expecting to see me there. I was supposed to come by and hang out after the reading I did at Simmons College for the Center for New Words, from 9 to 10. But my driver and I couldn’t find the place! And didn’t have a map! Or a phone number. I even got out on the street in Union Square and walked around asking people where Toast was, to no avail. Anyhow. I just got back to the hotel after being in the car for over an hour. And I’m terribly sorry and frustrated about the whole fiasco.

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11 Responses to “Toast Failure”

  1. Raffi says:
    June 24, 2006 at 3:25 am

    That driver is toast. Pun intended. Too bad.

  2. kyle says:
    June 24, 2006 at 3:57 am

    What a drag. Poor you you must be so tired.
    -Angus & the Bloaters.

  3. Alison Bechdel says:
    June 24, 2006 at 4:22 am

    ANGUS AND THE BLOATERS!
    best band name ever.

    thanks dude. I’m okay.

  4. kyle says:
    June 24, 2006 at 4:27 am

    Now if only I had enough talent to be in a band. ):

  5. Jaibe says:
    June 24, 2006 at 3:02 pm

    I lived in Cambridge on the Sommerville border for 5 years until 2002 & have been back visiting a couple times and I have *never* heard of that place. (if it makes you feel any better!)

  6. Margaret says:
    June 25, 2006 at 6:12 am

    I went to see you at Toast with my partner and 2 of our friends … we wondered what happened and decided to bale at midnight … so thanks for the explanation. Toast is a great place so one thing the evening did achieve was a reminder to us that “we should come here more often!” so it was not all a loss … guess Amazon.com will be getting the books sales … good luck with your book tour. Peace.

  7. Sarah says:
    June 27, 2006 at 1:20 pm

    Hey Alison, sorry you couldn’t find it. It doesn’t help that the place is practically underground; I should have given you directions before you left Simmons! In any case, it was a great reading Friday – thanks for coming!

    -Sarah, the redhead selling (hundreds of your) books on Friday

  8. Dear Alison says:
    July 27, 2006 at 7:19 pm

    I am a boston resi and stumbled upon your name/book through Jennifer Weiner’s blog of all places, can’t wait to check out your memoir and hopefully watch a book tour,
    Congradulations!
    -J

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