David Lubar's Blog, page 47

School's out!

I had my last visit of the 2008-2009 school season yesterday. I'll cover some of the highlights and low moments during the coming week. But let me recount one charming experience while it is still fresh in my mind. After having lunch with the sixth grade at Solomon Schechter Day School in Mew Milford, NJ, I was hanging out with a handful of students who'd opted to spend an extra ten minutes with me rather than go out for recess.

Three young ladies were sitting on a window sill. "She's the s

What's a fen weigh?

I don't know why I haven't been to Boston before (excluding one brief trip when I was in college). The city totally rocks. It also sucks. (As in sucking money from your wallet.) But I was happy to feel the pain, since I was there for a friend's wedding, and my wife and daughter were with me. The reception was in the State Room, which has a stunning view, 33 stories above the city. I had a chance to visit the library, and see all sorts of amazing buildings. There's tons of history everywhe

I wonder what kind of signs they have at Yale?

I saw a sign yesterday on a gate outside Harvard's Memorial Chapel. The sign read, "Please do not poster this gate." I wanted to place a sign next to it that read, "Please do not verb nouns."

Ate you, Brutus?

A supermarket is a perfect browsing place for people who dig stupidity. I just saw a brand of salad dressing labeled, "Et Tu." I have to wonder what that marketing department was thinking. Sure, there's the tenuous connection with Julius Caesar, and one of the varieties was a Caesar dressing, but beyond that, there are two reasons this is a moronic brand name. First, the tranlation of the phrase, "and you," has nothing to do with salad. Second, the line, "Et tu, Brute?" comes in response to

Now we are ten

Happy Anniversary!

10 years, 4 covers, lots of readers.

It seems like only yesterday -- okay, maybe 3,653 yesterdays -- that my first hardcover novel hit the stands. I have lots of memories from back then, but one thing stands out. I'd brazenly asked Chris Crutcher, by way of Kelly Milner Halls, to consider giving the book a blurb. He was kind enough to do that. In his repsonse to my thank-you note, he said, "This one will be around for a while." That's one of the nicest, and scariest, things

Road Wearier

It's been a long traveling season. I was home for only two weekdays in March, three in April, and four in May. I have a bit of traveling this month, but I'm right at the point when I start making the transition from traveling speaker to stay-at-home writer. I find it takes me a while to recover the writing rhythm. The world feels totally different when I'm spending the day at the keyboard. I'm starting a new book (#3 in my new series), so I also have the pleasure/fear/joy/ of leaping off th

Blunder bus

According to tne nice Verizon guy, the problem with my phone was a broken cupcake. It's a thingee on the pole. There is definitely amusment when a guy with a tool belt uses that word. We did discuss the etemology. Nothing exciting. The device resembles its namesake.

I headed off for Book Expo in NY yesterday, by bus from Bethlehem. As I was enjoying the ride, I couldn't help thinking that, given the dreadful flights of the past season, it would be interesting if the bus had a problem. Sure

Ave atque vale

A massive and fierce hail storm took out my phone nad internet yesterday. It was amazing to see the leaves strewn on the ground around all of the trees. I'm at the airport right now, checking my mail. (Free wifi.) Don't expect much in the way of new posts here until Wednesday, when the repairfolks are supposed to come. In the meantime, if the subject heading of this entry made you laugh after reading the post, my day is complete.

What have I done?

A while back, I was asked whether I wanted to narrate the audio for my new chapter book. I told the folks who asked that I didn't feel I was qualified to narrate a whole book. I really don't know how to handle the voices, and all of that stuff. The other day, I was asked to narrate my latest story collection. I said yes. I've been reading my short stories at schools for years, and I feel comfortable doing that. I have a lot of fun reading them. But I still feel slightly intimidated by the

Cyber definition

Social nutworking = looking for erotic adventure on Craig's List.