From: Kai JonesI have a question: can I buy you a drink if we're ever colocated? Just as a thank you for the great pleasure I've gotten from reading your books.
Co-located. Took me a minute. For a split second I read it as 'occupying the same colon'. Ooof. But, yes, certainly, if we're ever in the same town/meet at a reading/attend the same conference of convention, please do buy me a drink. Buy me several. I drink most things, though I'm not very fond of rum and I can't bear creme de menthe (shudder). And of course, some beers and wines are better than others.
I often go out for a beer after a reading. Every now and again I have to say no, because I've arranged something else but mostly, yep, I'll go for a pint with readers afterwards. So will you be in Seattle or Los Angeles this month?
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I'm coming to your reading tomorrow night!
ReplyDeleteExcellent! So do you know any good bars/casual restaurants near Hugo House?
ReplyDeleteWell, there IS the Wildrose ... there is also Purr and Barca and the Elysian is another two blocks up. Depends on what mood you are in!
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to Wildrose in years--not since I did Seattle Spit (2004? don't remember). I don't know Purr and Barca. The Elysian...depends on how tired I am afterwards. I remember that place as being a bit echoey and loud. Hmmn. There again, I might be all revved up and ready to party. It should be fun.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like Purr has karaoke on Tuesday nights: http://www.purrseattle.com/events.aspx
ReplyDeleteBarca is very dark and it's also hard to hear in there; I think they are all challenging but I tend to like the Elysian best. Plus, they now have their seasonal jasmine beer on tap!
Jasmine beer??
ReplyDeleteYeah. I know, you don't like flavored teas, so you probably wouldn't like the beer either - but it's pretty stunning!
ReplyDeleteI can always just have a sip of someone else's...
ReplyDeleteI use words in ways that other people label odd. Sometimes I make them up; other times I pick an older meaning. I have an idiosyncratic definition for agency that drives my friends wild, and I once used accrete in a way that cracked up a whole UseNET Group.
ReplyDeleteWhich is to say, that sometimes the words that make my thoughts clear and communicable from my side apparently turn into the content when they reach other people.
I think co-located is a perfectly reasonable neologism--but my brain has a tendency to embroider things and then build whole stories around them in a flash. (One day, in fact, I think I might write a series of stories based around mis- reading/hearing/thinking/seeing things.)
ReplyDeleteAnd for those who are curious, the Hugo House reading in Seattle was fab--a truly fantastic audience who laughed in all the right places--and six of us had beer afterwards at the Elysian (thanks for that suggestion Jill).