It's Come To This

caissiesthing:

Today’s the day. I started this Tumblr just over a year ago, because I wrote a funny little YA vampire book and my agent (still feels weird to say that) told me to announce it somewhere, and here is where I did. Now the book is here! Today! I kinda feel like I did when I was a YA. Like, when I was waiting to “become” a “woman.” I kept checking and checking and waiting and wishing. I just knew it was gonna change everything. And when it finally happened, life wasn’t really all that different except my stomach hurt and my pants didn’t feel right. Still, I knew and I’m sure I walked around with a dumb look on my face. Déjà vu!

I’ve said this a million times, but this whole deal never would have happened without the help of my Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and real life friends. If it weren’t for you people telling me, “Hey, that’s a good idea!” and “Why don’t you try doing that!” I would have just continued watching Dr. Oz at 11 and 3, with an episode of Nancy Grace’s Swift Justice in between, then wondering where the heck my day went. Thank you for cheering me on every step of the way!

I realize that I also need to thank you for buying this book, because I know you’re the ones who are. I was looking over my contract (weird!) and crunching the numbers, and as near as I can tell, I need to sell something like 36,724 copies to not be a total embarrassment. Because of all of you, I have a good start, AND if each of you were to convince four or five highly impressionable twelve-year-olds to buy it too, it will be embarrassment averted!  I don’t call this a pyramid scheme. I call this a PYRAMID SUCCESS!!!

Besides flat out strong-arming ‘tweens, there are other ways you can help. If you bought the book and read it and liked it, leaving a short review on Amazon.com or on Goodreads.com is a huge deal in terms of selling the book to people I don’t actually know. Heck, you can leave a review even if you didn’t enjoy it, and that’ll learn me to write a book you might like better in the future!

Of course, I’d never ask you to do me multiple favors without offering something in return. I am doing a cool little drawing on my book blog and you can enter to win here: www.CaisBook.com

I’m not sure if I believe in omens, but today happens to be the 9^th anniversary of the day I published one of my most favorite works. That guy up there. So, I’m probably going to close my laptop, start thinking about cakes and balloons and let this whole book thing take care of itself for a while. But do I feel lucky.

Buy Caissie’s book!  http://tinyurl.com/453txhw

daveholmes:

Rejoice, for my springtime mix is here. As always, click on Junior to download. 

1. Finally Begin- Cold War Kids
2. Damn These Vampires- The Mountain Goats
3. Head Full Of Doubt/Heart Full Of Promise- Avett Brothers
4. Lucky Sevens- The Push Stars
5. Let Love Be Your Energy- Robbie Williams
6. Stay Close- Delorean
7. Blame The Machines- Duran Duran
8. Send My Heart- The Adventures
9. King For A Day- XTC
10. Desire Be Desire Go- Tame Impala
11. Playing Bogart- Any Trouble
12. Moneygrabber- Fitz & the Tantrums
13. Very Best Years- The Grays
14. Heaven’s Gonna Happen Now- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
15. Sleepless In Silverlake- Les Savy Fav
16. Hold On- Biters
17. Georgia- Yuck
18. The Show Goes On- Lupe Fiasco
19. Under Cover Of Darkness- Strokes
20. I Love Your Smile- Shanice
21. This Could Be Fiction- Tommy Keene

daveholmes:

I cannot wait for this SNL/Netflix Streaming thing to start, so I can watch “Attitudes” over and over again. 

GET OUT OF MY HEAD DAVE HOLMES!!

PS - Does anyone else remember this sketch when Woody Harrelson was on as a guy who made miniatures, and Jan Hooks was like, “Tiny foods, tiny, tiny, foods.”  My parents and I STILL laugh about that, like 20+ years later.

daveholmes:

leitch:

My cab driver coming back from LaGuardia this afternoon handed me a clipboard and a pen and said, “Will you draw me a painting?” I am quite obviously not a skilled artist, but I obliged.

His name is Fabio Peralta, and he asks everyone in his taxi to “paint” when they get in. (I am not the first person to write about him.) He has been driving a cab for 41 years, but the picture requests have only been going on for 3 1/2 years. He said he was inspired by then-Presidential candidate Barack Obama, who made him feel like “I could be and do whatever I wanted.” He has collected 35,000 “paintings” — he refers to them exclusively as “paintings” — and he sells a book of his favorites to riders for “whatever you think it’s worth.” I gave him 10 bucks, though it was clearly worth a lot more. I hope you are lucky enough to hail him down someday.

Man oh man, did this warm my heart. 

marklisanti:

Wasted Years.

OR

It’s 2 Minutes To Midnight Somewhere*

*(In Time)

OR

Nicko McBrain sure loves his glasses husets rØdvin!

OR

You people really have no idea how many Iron Maiden posters I had on my designated “Iron Maiden posters only” bedroom wall.

thedailywhat:

$3275 Bar Tab of the Day: Iron Maiden walks into a Norwegian bar. The bartender says, “what’ll you have?” Iron Maiden replies: “27 Slippery Nipples.”

Stop me if you’ve heard this one.

[reddit.]

Amateurs.