Slog - Comments on Reading Today http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68 First off, we have three events going on at the Elliott Bay Book Company today. In the early afternoon, Bucky Sinister reads from Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks and Weirdos. This is a book about recovering from drugs and alcohol, not recovering from being a misfit, freak or weirdo. Then, Stephen Botek reads from Song on My Lips: Jazz Greats Were My Mentors, which is a memoir about being mentored by jazz greats. And then, in the evening, John Keeble reads from his "almost Faulknerian portrait of the Pacific Northwest," Yellowfish, which has recently... Copyright 2008 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:34:21 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by John Bailo I would have thought you would print the quote "All of life is made up of Republicans and meat."

But that was in the good olde days when Life In Hell was around and the Simpsons were not...

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68#c1199486 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68#c1199486 Books Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:18:59 -0800 Comment by The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver "Jim" Griffith?

]]> The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68#c1199491 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68#c1199491 Books Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:23:56 -0800 Comment by TValley Not only is it Bill Griffith, but his signature is legible and prominent in the graphic.

Also, Zippy is the shit.

]]> TValley http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68#c1199493 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68#c1199493 Books Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:26:26 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens Are you sure it's not "John Bailo" Griffith, Paul?

Still recovering from Star-Spangled Pike & Broadway night, there? ;)

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68#c1199507 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68#c1199507 Books Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:42:25 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball In 1988, I bought a Nash Metropolitan because that's what Zippy drove.

For all you hipsters who've ever uttered the phrase, "Are we having fun yet?" -- well, that was invented by Griffith/Zippy. That strip is one of the great surrealist entertainments of all times.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68#c1199709 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/reading_today_68#c1199709 Books Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:34:21 -0800