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Feb
07
The Sunday Salon 2.7.10: The Super Bowl of Book Nerdery
2010 at 3pm Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
So there’s this big game on TV today here in the U.S. today. You might have heard of it. I think it involves football and a much-contested catchphrase (Who Dat?), but it’s hard to tell. I mean, they’ve only been talking about it FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS! And they’re still going. Really. Hubby is watching ESPN, and they’ve resorted to doing the thing where the grown men cavort about on a miniature football field trying to imagine how the game will play out.
Grown men cavorting. It’s just unseemly.
It’s also the reason why I now know who inspires Drew Brees and that Peyton Manning has an incredible memory. It’s too bad he doesn’t play for the Patriots so the Bostonians could discuss their wicked smaht quarterback. (No offense to Tom Brady. The man does know how to wear a suit.)
I couldn’t really care less about the Super Bowl. The commercials aren’t that great, I’m not looking forward to the Tim-Tebow-declares-his-reasons-for-being-pro-life bit from Focus on the Family (aren’t they somehow opposed to football? Don’t they think running around in spandex pants encourage homosexuality or something?), and the half-time shows have been duller than dull ever since Janet Jackson’s nipple “accidentally” popped out.
So it should come as no surprise that I’ll spend the evening reading. And eating pigs-in-a-blanket. I do appreciate the Super Bowl for giving me an excuse to eat ridiculously tasty and fattening food.
Wanna know what I am excited about? Four straight days of book nerdery in May. I’m talking about Book Expo America and the Book Blogger Convention, people.
By now, you’ve probably read all about BEA and the gloriousness that will be three days (May 25-27th) of geeking out over authors, meeting other bloggers, mingling with our publishing industry friends (and making new ones), and learning a lot about where books are going. This will be my first BEA, and I cannot wait.
I’m also thrilled to be participating in and helping plan the first Book Blogger Convention on May 28th. The Book Blogger Convention is now officially affiliated with BEA, and it’s going to be an amazing time. I’ll be moderating the panel on writing and building content, for which we have some fantastic bloggers for you to hear from, and, of course, I’ll be sharing a few of my own secrets as well, like how and why I blog about pillow talk with my husband.
If you’re planning to attend BEA, I hope you’ll hang around the day after and join us for the Book Blogger Convention, and even if you’re not going to BEA, please consider heading to New York on May 28th for the convention. I’d love to meet you….and you never know, I might actually decide to dress up like umlauts. Follow the blog tour to get BEA tips from veteran attendees, and register for the Book Blogger Convention by February 14th to save $25 on the fee.
Hope to see you in New York in May!
Now back to those pigs-in-a-blanket.
It is nice that the Super Bowl gives everyone the excuse to eat those tasty, fatty foods. I’ll be chowing down on hot sausage sandwiches, Doritos, and chocolate cake tonight (thank you Super Bowl!). I wish more major sporting events inspired such eating (World Series party, anyone? Olympic opening ceremony shindig? Um, nope, they don’t work so well.)
I’m crossing my fingers that I can get the time off work (and/or have the guts to call in sick. Ahem…did I say that out loud?) and work out the logistics necessary to get myself to BEA/Book Blogger Con. It sounds like tons of fun, and I’d finally get the chance to meet some book bloggers in person!
I love the idea of applying the eating rules to the World Series. Hello, that’s potentially 7 games worth of good eatin’! What’s not to love?
I don’t know if I’m going to the BEA or not this year. If I do, I’ll be affiliated with the audiobooks portion of the gig (the audiobook companies have their booths at the cnovention and then the Audiobook Publishers Association holds their big awards event a la The Grammys.) If I end up going, I’d love to be able to meet you!
Luckily, my husband doesn’t follow football. I was in my 20s when I first learned the rules of the game, and maybe it was because I didn’t grow up with the game, but the rules made me laugh.
The Super Bowl party food sounds lovely, though.
I’m not going to BEA but it sounds like it will be such fun!
Likewise! I hope you’ll be able to go.
MY diet went to hell last night, that is for sure. Now come on! Didn’t you get your geek on when listening to The Who? I thought they were wonderful. Maybe not as good as The Boss last year, but worthy of stopping my yakking and watching.
Sadly I will not be at BEA this year. Someday…
I really, really, really need to do my BEA/Blogger Con posts!
To me, Superbowl is all about food and friends. The Hub invited people over without telling me and I was in my JAMMIES when they got there. Not good. Really, not good. I mean my jammies are cute and all but there’s nothing like hearing a doorbell and then going “WTF?”
So the friends part that I mentioned above, highly overrated. Just give me the food.
I’m so with you. And all of our close friends know that if they drop by on a Sunday, they do so at their own risk because 1) we WILL be in our jammies and 2) we probably WON’T have showered.