missmerrily bought 100SP from amazon … woohoo! Which means they sold their last copy on hand, which means they ordered … 1 more copy. I guess it’s too much to ask them to stock more than 1, until it starts selling a bit better. I am enrolling 100SP in the ‘search’ program; they scan in your entire book so that the whole thing is searchable by subject, words, names, etc. That means that anyone searching for either “John Cage” or “Big Trouble in Little China” will be directed to my book (!)

Last night’s DVD group went really really well. There was Corona and pizza and “the 400 Blows.” Ya can’t go wrong. I think our core group of attendees is really solid. Lots of variety personality-wise, and and I think we all do actually LOVE movies. (Loving movies is kind of like loving music: everyone SAYS they do, but only a minority really LOVES them). We’ll probably do our next meet up at the pad of backburner and endlezzdream again, although if it’s truly sweltering I made a motion to relocate to our place. I can stick the a/c unit in the living room.

Ahhhhhh tonight is the David Byrne concert at Navy Pier. Swoon. I’m stuck in a fantasy … you see, Mr. Byrne has a show tonight and Monday, which means he’ll be staying in town over the weekend (presumably). And I’m fantasizing that he’ll stop into the Barbara’s Bookstore at Navy Pier, see 100SP, and …

Any other Chicago people interested in going to opening night of “Fahrenheit 9/11” at the Landmark Century on Friday, the 25th? There’s a 7.30 pm show. I’d love to get a group together and buy a block of advance tix. Read about the campaign at http://moveon.org