FRIDAY!

Let’s say that you were looking to kill some time at work today. Hypothetically, of course… We’ve got you covered.

First things first, run out and pick out your cheese-y 70′s action guy name with the Hammer and Coop action name generator. Call me Thor Fisticuffs, please.

I was e-mailing with Wordsmiths’ Russ earlier in the week about book trailers. They’re really commercials, but I guess “trailer” sounds more artistic. There need to be more is what we’re thinking. Here’s a sampling:

Please pass along other book trailers that we may have missed.

In music news: A friend of mine recently reminded me about a song that I haven’t heard since college. The connection to books is that the song is called Hemingway by a really obscure 80′s band – Blue Clocks Green. It is the most fantastically catchy song about shooting yourself in the head that you’ll hear all week. I guarantee it. Give the song a listen here (skip down to the second song).

Get caught up on the Tournament of Books Round 2 haps. Here’s a recap of what’s happened since our last update:

In today’s round, Sam Lipsyte chooses between Alentejo Blue and Against the Day. Monica Ali or Pynchon?

Finally (because, really, you need to do something today), Steven Hall, the author of The Raw Shark Texts is guest blogging at Powells’ this week. The book has been getting good reviews, and the author is being compared to Mark Z. Danielewski (MZD is one of the Hall’s friends on his MySpace page). “Moby Dick meets the Matrix” is what they’re saying. Which is all very nice, however, the author begins his first guest post with this:

Ahhh blogging, that fantastic digital mash-up of random thoughts, half-baked product placement, free stuff and alcohol-induced slander.

I’m four beers into my evening, so I should point out that I have it on good authority The Raw Shark Texts was written with the blood of kittens that the author strangled in his back yard – with his bare hands – in his underpants – on the dope. Free books. I once had to change a flat in the rain.

Tide

categories Books | | datetime March 23, 2007 7:00 am

  • By Beth (The Toronto One), March 23, 2007 @ 8:47 am

    I checked out Mark Hall’s guest blog. Interesting to start off bashing blogs when you’re guest blogging.
    What’s with all the talk of beer and alcohol?
    (Maybe I should write a post after imbibing lots of wine – might be a crazy/interesting change of pace.)

  • By DJ Cayenne, March 23, 2007 @ 9:48 am

    I don’t know what he’s alluding to in alcohol soaked blogging. He may be projecting since his posts seem to focus heavily on the sauce…

  • By Rich, March 23, 2007 @ 1:12 pm

    I don’t know. Usually when I blog it has to be pointed out to me the following morning.

  • By DJ Cayenne, March 23, 2007 @ 1:21 pm

    I’m drunk right now! Remove my half-baked product placement, free stuff, and random thoughts and what am I left with?

  • By Frank, March 23, 2007 @ 1:45 pm

    Let the word go forth that I shall henceforth be known to all as Forklift Winters. Forklift Winters, Esquire.

  • By Rich, March 23, 2007 @ 2:19 pm

    Smile when you say that to Rusty Nail Grinder, which is an appropriate name, given that I am drinking Scotch and Drambuie as I typp tihs.

  • By DJ Cayenne, March 23, 2007 @ 2:28 pm

    I’m trying to figure out how to replace the DJ Cayenne nom du web in 2+ years of posts with the vastly superior Thor Fisticuffs. It’s especially difficult when hammered and slandering…

  • By Herman Glimscher, March 28, 2007 @ 9:16 am

    I finally got around to trying out the action name generator last night. From now on, color me: Loco Coyote.

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