2000-02-23 12:05:34 I'm having the wierdest most sort-of-stressful day. I come into work, late, and my friend Simone, who ROCKS, was telling me about how she went to see Dave Eggers speak last night. He's on a book tour, etc etc, anyways, so he's promoting his new book, which is supposed to be awesome, plus he's promoting McSweeneys, which I've been a subscriber to since Issue 1. Anyways, she tells me that there are TWO references to birds with arms during his talk last night. there is a picture of a bird with arms on the cover of the new mcsweeneys, plus at some point he handed out a list of titles and the audience was supposed to vote on which ones they thought should be made into a short story, and "birds with arms" was one of the choices. It's just WIERD because I've had a thing about birds with arms on my website for over a year. and I've submitted a bunch of stuff to mcsweeneys, and always get rejected, and I've also had email correspondence with dave eggers about a few different topics, and my website url is always in my signature. so it's not totally ridiculous to think that he might have seen it. and so should I be mad? is he stealing from me? or should I just look at this as an opportunity to be like "hey, we obviously have some of the same interests, maybe that's a cool thing we should exploit together."? i don't know. i'm so so so so so so stressed and confused and worried. I guess I'm going to go to his talk tonite downtown, but I'm not sure what I'll do or say. oy. k |
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