Hustler of Culture
Praise continues to knock on the door of Central Booking after SF Station featured us this week. My buddy Ev sent a nice note as did Meg from Megnut after I ran into her at the bus stop. Davvy Rothbart, the genius behind Found Magazine also had a few nice things to say. As did plenty of friends and lovers with no web sites, but just as sweet.
Central Booking was featured this week at SFSTATION.COM, an city guide alternative to the mostly useless Citysearch. The author Tamar Love runs the Literary Arts section and is both a talent and super person, should you find yourself in need of an editor.
I’d also be interested in hearing if your city had this kind of alternative city guides. If you’d be so inclined:
Jon and I are interviewing Rick Moody in less than 2 hours. I’m currently listening to his interview on “Fresh Air” and quite honestly, I’m terrified. Moody sounds rediculously smart, literary to the extreme and takes being a writer very very seriously. He may have the same voice as Michael Chabon but has quite a different agenda than Chabon’s pop-culture loving, storytelling-over-literary pedigree vibe.
This is pretty much an about face from oh, EVERY other author I’ve interviewed thus far, mostly laid back, chit chatty volk of the pen. I don’t have Hawthorne passages to quote, I don’t know how I’ll avoid annoying comparisions to Updike and Cheever. He’ll probably just think I’m some dumb kid with a dumb web site who’s wasting his time. I’ll just be thrilled when this afternoon is over.
Update: The interview went fine. Rick Moody is very pleasant. And Jon did a great job. Hooray.
Apparently the thing to do on April Fool’s Day is to dress up your blog to look like someone elses. Had I but known…
Not like it hasn’t been said already but Moveable Type is one fine piece of software–smooth, intuitive, poweful like a great pair of shoes. And this is coming from me who knows next to nothing about software. Three days ago, it was nothing. That’s when I found out what “client side” meant.
Central Booking’s upgrade has several of its features operating off of MT including the effortless uploading of stupid files that always clog up the FTP program and enabling user comments in our Re:Read news blog, Also we can syndicate these news items as well without so much as breaking a sweat.
So hey, all your bibliophilic bloggers out there, how about syndicating the latest book and publishing news on your site? You can. I’ll help you. It’s way easy.
So I’m over at Quicken.com, trying to learn something about writing a business plan since Central Booking’s is in desperate need of an overhaul. I’m marching through the Biz Plan Wizard, which will apparently send me appropriate resources and sample plans based on my type of business. When I indicated that CB is an “Internet Only” business and click “Continue”, I get this…
We are experiencing technical difficulties with our Web site. Please try back later.
A warning, perhaps?
Loading up on supplies for the First Ever Central Booking Feed and Read. Suzan’s been a tremendous help. I have a really wonderful girfriend.
I wrote about Oprah v. Franzen in my column this week, digging a bit deeper into their childish behavior and why his getting yanked from the show was probably inevitable.
Interviewing interns for Central Booking today. God I suck at this.