Hitching a Ride off your Famous Friends:
I have achieved a level of fame I am rather proud of. I am friends with people who some other people might recognize. And that suits me fine. Because I don’t get strange emails from wannabe geek-boys (a few booky girls but I digress) and can still get into some neat places and get few trinkets thrown my way.
It’s a good life.
I was thinking about this yesterday when my Sunday New York Times arrived which not only an essay from my friend Wendy McClure but a piece by Steven Johnson. Miss McClure and I became friends last year when both on book tour (hers beat mine into bloody submission and then pulled its pants down in front of the entire school). Mr. Johnson I’ve never met but would commit several acts unholy, up to and including window watching, if we could hang out just once.
The reason I bring up Mr. Johnson is I am friends (jeez, I sound like Perez Hilton) with his editor Sean McDonald, who was kind enough to send me a copy of The Ghost Map, SJ’s new book which I’ve been eager to read.
It needs no more press here (see for yourself) so let me just say thank you to Sean for sending it my way, that I will be reading it soon, hello to Wendy and we should hang out, girl, Mr. Johnson, say the word and my bucket and squeegee will be right there and this level of fame is just fine. For now.
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Dude! You should come up to visit me at MIT sometime before I graduate in the spring. Johnson (or SBJ, as he tends to be called around here) came to visit last year where he spoke to Henry’s creative industries class so I got to meet him then, and my housemate Ivan was SBJ’s research assistant on both EVERYTHING BAD and GHOST MAPS. C’mon up, I’ll make introductions. 🙂
Dude! You should come up to visit me at MIT sometime before I graduate in the spring. Johnson (or SBJ, as he tends to be called around here) came to visit last year where he spoke to Henry’s creative industries class so I got to meet him then, and my housemate Ivan was SBJ’s research assistant on both EVERYTHING BAD and GHOST MAPS. C’mon up, I’ll make introductions. 🙂
I’ll be out that way Thanksgiving weekend. Perhaps then?
I’ll be out that way Thanksgiving weekend. Perhaps then?
Depends on when you’re coming and going — Laura and I are heading back to Ohio for Thanksgiving with our families, but we have to be back for Monday morning. Email me your travel itinerary?
Depends on when you’re coming and going — Laura and I are heading back to Ohio for Thanksgiving with our families, but we have to be back for Monday morning. Email me your travel itinerary?