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"In short, Erin O’Brien is hilarious and one of the most entertaining writers around." -Cool Cleveland
Since I used a big honking font for that quote, I guess I ought to back it up with an excerpt from The Irish Hungarian Guide to the Domestic Arts:
If that's not enough, I'm willing to prove it in person. Please join me for a reading and signing event this Saturday, March 24, at 7 p.m. at Mac's Backs, Cleveland's venerable indie book store.I had some experience with live lobsters, which had theretofore included going from the grocery's cute little lobster box to pot, sometimes with an interlude in the kitchen sink where the out-of-water lobsters would lie, their antennae weirdly pointing around the kitchen as if trying to tune in to a secret broadcast on an escape route. (If lobsters could depict such a scene on film, would they not, at such a juncture, include an ardent voice-over in the manner of a sweat-sheathed silver-screen hero lashed and writhing beneath a swinging pendulum? Just … need … to find … a way … out … don't … lose … hope … Alas, the lobster's in my sink have never achieved what our onscreen hero always seems to pull off at the last minute.)
I can't wait to see you.
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14 comments:
If you wake sometime with big ole rubber bands around your hands and strange little giggles coming from the kitchen along with the sound of boiling water then you'll know the transmission got through.
RJ
I think there's a really good parody here: "The Metamorphosis II: Gregor's Revenge". Cockroaches get oposible thumbs. Much hilarity ensues...
PS-somebody give me the correct sspelling for 'opposeble'? I'm going crazy here...
MR
"opposable"-got it-thanks, dictionary.com
This post makes me want to become a musician and write a song called "Lobster Screams in the Night"
Remember the SNL episode in the '80s-Daniel Travanti of Hill Street Blues was the host-they did a call-in vote to determine whether a lobster they were holding over a steaming pot would go in or not...
Wish I could be there this weekend. But lobsters,
ugh.
We always had them in Maine when I was a girl, would boil them up freshly caught--
I am totally allergic, so I have no appreciation for the food value.
I'm guessing you've never read David Foster Wallace. wjm
Erin-Any Platinum Circle Package seats available for tonight?
Anybody else going? I'd like to put faces together with nicknames
MR
I know this is sort of off topic, but I broke my ankle a few days ago. And now have more sympathy than ever for your Goat...and you!
I'm wondering if you have any Irish~Hungarian tricks to taking a shower without getting the cast wet. Any broken ankle advice would be greatly appreciated! (Other than the most common advice: Don't break your ankle!!!)
Owwwwww....
DDP -- I am so candy ass that even with the doctors ok and a removable cast I am not showering for fear that I slip and put weight on my leg (an extreme no no per the doctor). Baths are the way to go. Three weeks in,(and an operation for plate insertion), I received a removable cast and orders to exercise the ankle 4-6 times daily. Seems like time is the only cure? Two weeks later the ankle is moving pretty well, and the main focus is getting the swelling down. Wishing you well and I hope you like to read, since I spend half my time on the couch with my leg propped up.
@ Goat-that's a coincidence! In my household we, too spend time on the couch with our legs propped in various positions, but the only book that seems to be involved is the Kama Sutra.
MR
I still haven't started your book yet, but it sits within eye sight and arms reach of me. I'm trying to finish this bizarre short story compilation pertaining to food, and this one other book by a local author who is a friend of a friend on growing gardens for profit and the whatnot... but I swear, yours is either next or second to next.
I should also note, in a brazen attempt at a "career/wage" change, I applied at local used bookstore a couple weeks ago. It's a highly sought after setup to work for, and I had doubt I'd be called in for an interview.
Yet I was called in. I interviewed. They asked me what books were on my "To Read" list, and I mentioned yours but butchered the hell out of the title ("The Hungarian Irish Domest... the... the Irish Hung... Domestic Arts... something... something funny, I think... Christ, I don't know, but Google for Erin O'Brien...") which resulted in a really awkward bit of silence between me and the 6 people interviewing me. And I mumbled, "Way to go, Self... you really butchered that one."
They laughed.
And they offered me the job the next day, which I gladly took. I like to think that maybe they did Google for you afterward, and that's how I got the job... or maybe it's because I told them I'd give them free marshmallows. They seemed interested in that as well.
Better take in a few free marshmallows on your first day, TT, just to be on the safe side.
Thanks Goat! I'm hoping I don't have to have surgery. So far, so good. But I'll know at my next appointment.
Glad you are on the mend.I'll be sending you and Erin all good thoughts and vibes for a quick recovery.
And yes, I love to read. Just spent the last hour ordering more books! I've already finished "The Irish Hungarian." May have to read it again! Loved it!!
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