Sold two MESSIAHS. One (plus t-shirt) went to a regular at the café who had missed the launch party. The other went to an artist who lives near New Hope, PA. We have never met but had come across a copy of OUTLAWS a few years ago at a museum bookstore and written to tell me how it had impacted her life. Boy, was that a bolt-from-the-blue spirit-lifter! It is a memory I replay and replay in my mind. We have remained in light contact (mainly through FB), and she had turned her partner, a NYC-based artist, onto my work. Now, in the note accompanying her check, she reaffirmed how my humor, insights and obsessions had influenced her (and “others”). I sent her a t-shirt too. (It seems to have passed the postal clerk as “packing material” since it didn’t cost me my Media Mail rate.)
MESSIAHS also received its first review, from Steven Thompson, at his on-line “Forces of Geek.” Thompson, a 66-year-old aficionado of popular culture, wasn’t familiar with many of the folks and books I wrote about, but he was quite complimentary about my work and me. (His only complaint was the title: “Abominable.”
None of the potential interviews has drawn any closer, and one has been taken off the board entirely.
In other news…
The Zoom between the Air Pirates documentary film maker, two of his associates, the proposed copyright law expert, and me went swimmingly. (The fact that I couldn’t get my microphone to operate was not a major problem, since I had nothing to say.) The star was the law professor, who came across as a classic of the type: extremely bright; engagingly eccentric. (For the fictional adaptation, think Margaret Rutherford.) I could see the film maker becoming entranced, looking forward to getting cameras rolling.
So many Bob Levins on the Internet; I'm the Bob Levin who writes.