January 30th, 2008
It’s almost time to get on the road. We’re running through the last minute stuff here. Smoke machines are getting serviced and tested, the huge Rock On skull with snakes coming out of its eyes had some electrical problems, but I think my road tech got it fixed. Some bookstores have refused to let us put rigging into the ceiling so I can be lowered into the reading area on the huge hydraulic forked tail…so in some of the bookstores I will simply do a stripped down show and enter from the front of the store, running through the crowd to the podium, shooting my Jack Daniels cannon into people’s mouths as I plow through. There was an article in Boston that accidentally listed the Brookline date as 2/5 — it is, in fact, 2/12. The McSweeney’s folks have posted a nice succinct list of Rock On tour dates with addresses. I’ve got to run out and get an extra pair of glasses for the road, some electrical tape for my nipples, and a class C pyrotech license for the larger stores I’ll be reading in. — DSK
P.S. You can now also send an excerpt of "Rock On: An Office Power Ballad" to a friend via the “email this” feature. I don’t know…there’s just something very appropriate about being able to get part of a book about a record company job for free on the internet so you can share it for free with your peers.
