Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: quixotic
  • Music: The theme from "The Middleman."

Me and the Middleman, conspiring toward public humiliation.

Saturday, I participated in LitCrawl at Borderlands Books in San Francisco. When I mentioned this on Twitter, someone said this made them think of ArtCrawl from The Middleman, and asked if I was going to perform "Hey, Mr. God," supposedly the world's worst spoken-word piece (also from The Middleman, naturally). Being a deeply silly blonde, I replied that if Rosemary and Rue was Borderlands' top-selling paperback again for October 2009, I would not only perform "Hey, Mr. God," I would record it as an MP3 and put it up for free download.

Sadly, I made this reply in public. So here, because I am a shameless creature, is the official challenge:

If enough people buy Rosemary and Rue from Borderlands to make it their top-selling mass-market paperback for October 2009, I will go into Kristoph's studio and record an MP3 of the "Hey, Mr. God" monologue from The Middleman episode "The Boy-Band Superfan Interrogation." I will then post this MP3 for free download. I will have no shame during the recording, which means I will sound like a complete idiot. You can probably use this MP3 to blackmail me in fifteen years, which I am less young and stupid.

(Yes, they take Internet and telephone orders; yes, they ship; yes, they have signed books.)

My plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity.
Tags: book promotion, silliness, support local bookstores, too much tv
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  • 18 comments

ravenclawed

October 19 2009, 17:40:50 UTC 7 years ago

Totally off-topic, but I listened to "Pretty Little Dead Girl" and "Stars Fall Home" last night. All I can say is, "Wow, you have an amazing voice" and "Wow, your songs sound much better than they did in my head." :-)

seanan_mcguire

October 20 2009, 01:24:28 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, yay! I'm so glad that you like them. :)