Friday Miscellany
Hey, kids, Daren Wang, the director of the Decatur Book Festival has an excellent blog, Verb, that you should be adding to your daily reading ASAP. He has the most comprehensive Atlanta book event listings that you are going to find anywhere. Until I checked out Daren’ s blog, I did not know that Junot Diaz will be reading at Agnes Scott College next Thursday night. It’s true! If you want to go, admission is free, but you have to have a ticket. Call the events office at 404 471-6043 to line it up. Tell ‘em Daren sent ya.
In other news, author Vendela Vida and her husband Dave Eggers are the co-writers of the upcoming film, Away We Go. Based on the trailer, it looks pretty good. I’m a big, big fan of both authors. And it stars Maya Rudolph and Jim Halpert. I’ll be at the cineplex.
Also: Check out Neil Gaiman on The Colbert Report.
Finally, it pays to read BGB. Here’s an example. If you had read this post from 2006, you would have come across the following:
…build your Word Power with BGB! Vocabulary Case Study: This morning my boss came by and asked me if I knew what a word meant. I thought that I might know the definition in a vague way, but surely it couldn’t be what I was thinking of because (a) he’s my boss and (b) the word appeared in a work-related e-mail that he had received. The word: merkin. After looking it up, I didn’t ask the context, and he sort of wandered off.
Then! – when you watched 30 Rock last night and Jenna said that she was donating her hair to the charity Merkins for Hope you would have laughed and laughed while your wife asked what was so funny. Stick with us.
And if you haven’t seen it yet, Google is celebrating the first day of glorious spring with this Eric Carle creation:
March 20, 2009 8:07 am 
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