Stunts and Books
On Saturday, we spent the day at the air show at Andrew’s Air Force Base… which was dubbed the “Joint Services Open House”. Parking was at FedEx Field and nearly 5 billion Metro buses were set aside for the event awaiting the 10 trillion attendees. (actual numbers not available at press time, so a guess was made)
Sunday, we scored about 50 pounds of free books at Book Expo America at the DC Convention Center, passes courtesy of Greg G… every publisher was there to show there wares. Every single publisher that exists on our planet — the show floor was essentially 3 million city blocks (actual numbers not available) of book publishers, magazine publishers and distributors. Amazon, Google Print, Powell’s, Harcourt, Houghton-Mifflin, etc. etc. etc.. everyone.
The biggest scores were:
1) An uncorrected proof of Harry Shearer’s upcoming book “Not Enough Indians”
2) “Let’s Paint the 90’s” –a watercolor paint-by-numbers book with such coloring activities as “Let’s Paint Vanilla Ice” and “Let’s Paint Tonya Harding”…good good stuff.
3) Promo sheet of Tenacious D’s: Pick of Destiny upcoming book (Oct 2006)
4) Two MAD Magazine buttons
5) Button that says “Jesus Rode A Donkey”
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If Charlton Heston’s “The Ten Commandments” was a wacky teen comedy (very funny movie trailer remix):
10 Things I Hate About Commandments
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So it seems you won’t be purchasing Barbaro Glue (TM) anytime soon — the horse that broke it’s leg at the start of Saturday’s Preakness is doing very well after a seven-hour surgery.
The doctor outlined what exactly the horse busted:
“a broken cannon bone above the ankle, a broken sesamoid bone behind the ankle and a broken long pastern bone below the ankle. The fetlock joint — the ankle — was dislocated.”
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So how about that William Jefferson, eh? Public servant. Role model.
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Did anyone catch that Marissa died on “The OC”? Huh. How about that. I think that show was a 1-season-wonder.
Even better is Access Hollywood ruining it for everybody.
