April 26, 2006
Field Trippin'
As you can see, I crashed the Lane Smith party yesterday at Copperfields in Petaluma. Lane read some stories, made some underwear jokes, and wore a wig; there was also a "John, Paul, George and Ben" sing-along and a bit of the Chicken Dance. I've never done a gig like that before - it was fun. It was actually rather similar to playing for my usual sort of teen-something audience, the only real difference being that most of the kids were a couple of feet shorter. There are more photos over at Lane's terrific new website.
After the show we went around to various bookstores and signed books and had drinks and so forth. All on "the Mouse." It was a good time.
There was a scheduling SNAFU, and it turns out that the appearance in San Jose that was originally scheduled for Tuesday is actually happening on Wednesday. Sorry about that.
So for Wednesday, April 26, the Lane Smith show featuring Dr. Frank and Big Lou will be at:
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA; 415 927 0960 x 239. 10 AM.Hickelbees, 1378 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose CA; 408 292 8880. 2 - 4:30 PM.
UPDATE: the Lane Smith link was bad; I just fixed it.
Posted by Dr. Frank at April 26, 2006 01:49 AM | TrackBack
Hey, Frank. Random question...
Do Tom's criticisms of The Journal of Albion Moonlight reflect your own? Because... at the risk of sounding pretentious, I gotta admit, I was a bit intriged by the brief description.
I'm only halfway through King Dork, and enjoying it very much. It's relieving to finlly find an appropriate name for the action referred to as "the make out/fake out"; having survived a great number of them myself in high school.
Posted by: Michael Lee at April 26, 2006 03:24 AMSTILL no King Dork at Border's. They told me it'd be here this week, now they say next week. Grrrrr!
Posted by: Don at April 26, 2006 05:30 AMAwww cute!
I got that book for my sister yesterday, after finally finding it in the kids' section, reading it, and deeming it appropriately adorable. Haven't given it to her yet, since she had a book report to do today, but perhaps tomorrow.
Posted by: Sasha O. at April 26, 2006 07:02 AMhow many of those kids had cellphones that went off during the presentation? i wonder.
Posted by: carl the pigman at April 26, 2006 07:06 AMCongrats Frank, you're in USA TODAY!
http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/
Is it just me, or is the link to the Lane Smith site kind of messed up?
Posted by: Kate at April 26, 2006 07:17 PMI get a dead link too, Kate.
When are you hauling your cookies to L.A. so that I can get an non-personalized autograph for my copy of King Dork to sell on e-Bay, Doctor Frank?
Posted by: Emily at April 26, 2006 08:51 PM[yes, yes. Come to L.A.]
I thoroughly enjoyed the book, Frank. If I were a more eloquent English major I could tell you in fancy terms what I liked about it. But since I'm a failure, my review will have to "It was most excellent!" That is the best I can do.
That gig above looks really rad. I bet the kids enjoyed it.
Posted by: Megan at April 27, 2006 06:10 AM