Well, that didn’t work out too well. In my last blog I
committed myself to drinking my celebratory bottle of Absinthe and cleaning the
house from top to bottom in lieu of making the NY Times bestseller list. I only
got a couple shots down and the bathroom cleaned. That award winning Absinthe
from France which uses the original 1834 recipe is horrible. No wonder Van Gogh
cut his ear off. And Toulouse Lautrec was probably short because he started
drinking it at an early age.
The stuff tastes like rubbing alcohol mixed with the breath
freshener sen-sen (a tiny horrible gray licorice flavored square my mom used to
torture me with when I was a kid). For all you parents out there that are
worried that your teenage sons and daughters might be tempted to drink, you can
nip it in the bud by giving them a bottle of this stuff. And if it turns out they
can actually stomach the stuff, don’t feel guilty—there was never any hope for
them anyway.
Starting Monday I begin promoting The Floating Man in earnest once again. I want to try a couple
outside the box ideas I have. One is to go to my old alma mater and talk with a
marketing professor and see if he has any super sharp students that are a whiz
at this social media thing. Because let me tell you, I am certainly not a whiz.
I am now on twitter; following and being followed by a bunch of authors who all
want me to buy their book.
See the problem?
I have no intention of buying their book and they have no
intention of buying mine. Need to find twitter followers that only read books,
not write them.
So next week it’s back to college. Maybe the next Mark
Zuckerberg is out there walking around campus, waiting to find me and spread my
book to the teeming masses.
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