Electrolicious

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From Ben’s wonderful photoset of my book release party.

So cute!
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Last night was the release party for my book! It was bachelorette themed, and tacky in all the best ways with penis cake, girls in veils, obscene water bottles, and a stripper named Kevin Heaven. There was also a sock puppet. Many many loved ones were [...]

I recently did an interview with Kimi Kline on Seattle’s JACKfm 96.5, and we talked about wedding porn, the relativity of what “offbeat” means, bachelor party spelunking, and forgetting your vows. The conversation is now available as a podcast, so take a listen.
(crossposted on offbeatbride.com)

I have an interview airing Monday on Northwest Afternoon, a local afternoon talk show. The show is on between 3 and 4pm, and I’m not sure at what point my segment will air. Norah Vincent will be on the show too, however, so it’s worth watching the whole thing.
The real question is, who can get [...]

A few months ago I won a charity auction to have my book reviewed by the Seattle’s snarkiest alt-weekly, The Stranger. The review published today, and it’s a win/win … the article is wonderful and I got to donate to Northwest Harvest! Plus, it was fun. Furthermore, one of my favorite Stranger writers, Cienna Madrid, [...]

This morning I did a taping for a local talk-show to pimp my book. In an attempt to look professional and authoritative and maybe my age, I went and bought an overpriced sharp little blazer. I probably undid any help the blazer might have done me by wearing my braids, but I love my braids [...]

Tomorrow I’m being interviewed about my book on a country station called KMPS. The DJ who’s interviewing me has a bio that includes the line Don drives a Chevy SSR roadster-pickup. Huh. This should be interesting!
Update: Interview went fine. It airs in about a month. I’ll letcha know!

Barefoot and Hula Hooping:

Because I’m ridiculous.

Music by Seattle band U.S.E.!

I posted this over on my official book blog, but I’m not sure how many of you are over there, so I’ll post here, too: My book is shipping this week from Amazon! I’m not quite sure what happened: I was originally told the book would release the first week of January, then was told [...]