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Post by raoawr on Oct 8, 2005 23:03:48 GMT -5
J, M, and Songbird all live on the east-ish side of Long Island, it would take a while for them to get to White Plains.
He's visited my area before but I can never be bothered to go. I was going to go to something in the City last year but I didn't end up going because I had school.
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Post by LargeManFeOrMale on Oct 9, 2005 7:05:03 GMT -5
Thats my birthday! that would be the greatest birthday present ever! But I live across the pond :-(
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Post by jtb on Oct 9, 2005 15:34:40 GMT -5
Hey ya'll, I live in Tennessee. I guess I could take a plane there. Man, he needs to come to TN.
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Post by Gigi on Oct 12, 2005 18:29:33 GMT -5
I would take Chicago, too. It's only about 90 minutes from here. Maybe we should start asking begging Harper Collins to send him here. He finally IS coming to the Midwest! Naperville, IL, to be exact. 90 minutes from my house. I just called and ordered my tickets, numbers 103&104 (The first 860 people get to see the his Vaudeville show) www.lemonysnicket.com/event/tour.htmlwww.andersonsbookshop.com/events.phpOther tour stops: White Plains, NY Toronto, Canada Denver, CO Salt Lake City, UT Austin, TX Los Altos, CA Palo Alto, CA San Francisco, CA (back home for him)
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Post by JAMtastically Jigam on Oct 12, 2005 20:17:40 GMT -5
I'm on Fall Break from school until the 19th (like, classes start again on the 19th). I live in NJ and school is in CT, and White Plains is pretty much right in the middle, on the way from home back to school. What is the most reasonable thing to do here? Obviously skip classes on the 19th so I can meet Danny.
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Post by dragonprincess on Oct 17, 2005 14:38:43 GMT -5
Inresting...I live in Chicago and he is coming to a bookstore near my house. There is already more the 800 people coming to this event. It a show followed by a booksigning.
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Post by Gigi on Oct 17, 2005 14:44:12 GMT -5
Are you going? What ticket number do you have?
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Post by Mary on Oct 17, 2005 21:12:05 GMT -5
Is dragonprincess talking about the Naperville event or a different Chicago one?
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Post by Gigi on Oct 17, 2005 22:58:07 GMT -5
The Naperville one is the only one I know of or have seen advertised, so I assume he/she means Naperville.
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Post by dragonprincess on Oct 18, 2005 11:35:44 GMT -5
The Naperville one at Anderson's book shop. I only live about 20 mins away.
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Post by Gigi on Oct 18, 2005 16:19:48 GMT -5
OK. So are you going?
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Post by dragonprincess on Oct 19, 2005 12:52:49 GMT -5
Yep! I got a pretty good number too. Did you pick up your ticket yet? I called and they took my name and stuff and they said they are around number 60. I went there later that day thinking my number was reseverd, but it wasn't. I didn't a much woast number thank god. But make sure your number is reseverd.
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Post by Gigi on Oct 19, 2005 13:56:32 GMT -5
We've actually been talking about this more in this thread. So far, Gigi is 103-104 Mary is 208-214 Setnick is 239-241 Dragonprincess, what numbers did you get?
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Post by Mary on Oct 19, 2005 21:15:08 GMT -5
So, did anyone here go to this one in New York today? What was it like?
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Post by JAMtastically Jigam on Oct 20, 2005 13:24:03 GMT -5
Hey everyone! I went to the event at Borders yesterday, and it was well worth cutting school for. It started with Handler explaining to everyone why Lemony Snicket himself wasn't there (he had been bitten in the armpit by a crocodile and was paralyzed). We then were told that we were going to be taught 3 moral lessons over the course of the evening. The first was never to raise your hand, lest you be bitten in the armpit by a crocodile. The second was, "If you see Count Olaf, scream and run away." He demonstrated this by reading from The Bad Beginning, the part where the Baudelaires cook dinner and then Count Olaf comes home with his troupe and yells at them. When he was done reading, he had 2 girls from the audience squeeze each other really hard, from which we learned: "If you squeeze anything hard enough, it will make a noise". He used this lesson to explain how the accordian works, and proceeded to play a song about Count Olaf on the accordian. It may have been on The Bad Beginning's recording, but I don't know. After that he sat down to sign books and I waited for an hour and a half before I got to the front. Bah. But he was nice and I told him I went to Wesleyan and that I was cutting class to come see him and he was like, "Oh, yeah, there's no problem with that! It's not like Wesleyan is an expensive school or anything!" (our tuition is $40,000 a year...) I also managed to get a kind-of picture with him, even though the Borders lady next to him was like, "There's a long line still! We're not posing for pictures!" When he was signing, he turned to where I had my bookmark and was like, "Is this where you're up to?" And I was like, "Yeah." And he was like, "Well, I'm going to write here 'Read no further' and you can just pretend you're done, okay?" And that was it. Hurrah! Some of my favorite quotes from his talk: "I know some of you have been... standing in line, which, if you do long enough, you will begin to think that it is not a democratic country." [someone guessed that Snicket wasn't there because he had died while on the picnic] "Ah, an excellent guess. Death, the bane of all picnics! I've lost track of the numbers of times I've gone on a picnic only to find that DEATH was served rather than, say, dessert." "White, the color of you sweater, if it were clean." "Who here has read something of Mr. Snicket's works?" [pretty much everyone raises his/her hand] "HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING?!... And we're only on the FIRST of the THREE!" "I need someone who can make an inhuman roar. You can make an inhuman roar? Let's hear it." "roar." "...The power of the imagination is a wonderful thing." "[The accordian] is a semi-formal instrument, and so I'm removing my coat, but not my pants, as I play it." [talking to some child] "Tell me, have you ever been kidnapped? Well, then you have a big surprise ahead of you tomorrow! It's gonna be really quite incredible. Have you ever been in the trunk of an automobile? Well, it's gonna be a day of delight." A girl: "I thought you were the author!" Handler: "There's no reason for those McCarthy-esque accusations." And now the pictures: Daniel arriving Explaining the unfortunate events of Lemony's picnic Re-enacting Lemony's attempt to get to Borders despite paralysis (He is on the table) Reading Imitating Olaf's sinister smile Playing the accordian Talking Me and Daniel! And my signages
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