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Shindig Alert

Don’t forget, Wordsmiths Books will be celebrating their one year anniversary in grand style this weekend, June 13-15. Some of the highlights:

Friday: Live music from 7-11 PM. Four bands. All awesome.

Saturday:

Poetry Atlanta takes the stage at 2 PM
I will be boiling crawfish on Decatur Square, which I am told is entirely legal, starting in the early evening. Hopefully it won’t be 97 degrees while I’m standing next to a giant cauldron of boiling water.
At 7PM the Bobbie Faye Fais Do-Do Crawfish Boil and Author Shindig officially gets under way featuring Toni McGee Causey and three other top-shelf authors. With luck, the crawfish will be ready.

Sunday:

I’m not much of a reality show watcher, but I am told by those int he know that Richard Blais’ appearance to sign Top Chef: The Cookbook might be a bigger deal than me boiling crawfish. 2PM.
Even more chefs descend on The ‘smiths to sign Atlanta Cooks at 4PM.

As a bonus, Wordsmiths’ Russ has declared that if 50 people tell him that they heard about the weekend’s events via Facebook, he will eat a crawfish. Since Russ often waxes poetic about vegetarian crab cakes, this may be a big deal. I say whether or not you have a Facebook account, find Russ and tell him that’s where you heard the news.

See Wordsmiths for more info on all of the events. All are free. Don’t worry, I’ll remind you.

Tags: Wordsmiths

Happenings | Tim | June 10, 2008 7:03 am

7 Comments

By russ, June 10, 2008 @ 8:20 am

i’m serious-50 people. 50 people!
By Sarah, June 10, 2008 @ 8:58 am

So you’re going to kill and consume an animal if 50 people encourage you to? Um, why?
By Tim, June 10, 2008 @ 9:04 am

Clarification: We will not be killing any animals specifically to meet the needs of Russ’s goal. There will already be a giant pot of crawfish that have been boiled for eating purposes. Russ will eat one of these.
By Sarah, June 10, 2008 @ 2:35 pm

That’s amazingly unenlightened of you.
By russ, June 10, 2008 @ 8:47 pm

I am so incredibly excited that my willingness to possibly eat a bug (having not even specified I’d be doing bug-eating) is creating controversy!
By Tim, June 10, 2008 @ 8:48 pm

Oh well…