HE WROTE: But SERIOUSLY NOW
He Wrote, She Wrote
In 2005, Bob Mayer and Jenny Crusie wrote Don't Look Down without killing each other, a miracle in itself. "He Wrote, She Wrote" is the continuing saga of their partnership during 2006, the Year From Hell, promoting DLD (out April 4) and writing their next work of genius, Agnes and the Hitman. 
Warning: Some Violence and Much Strong Language.
Friday, April 07, 2006
the authors
the recent posts
- HE WROTE: Bob Chokes
- SHE WROTE: Speaking of Squirrels . . .
- HE WROTE: Do Jenny's Dream of Electric Bobs?
- SHE WROTE: Help
- HE WROTE: Survived the St Martins Hit Women
- HE WROTE: Book Tour Day Two: Still Alive
- HE WROTE: Day Two: OFFICIAL BOOK LAUNCH
- SHE WROTE: Moot Goes to Long Island
- HE WROTE: Day Two. The Morning After
- HE WROTE: Book Tour, Day One
61 Comments:
Uh...There's nothing written...mmmmmmmmmmm
Bob's attempt to change the course of American culture, by employing the absence of any method whatever. Good One Bob!
See what happens when they try for serious? The mind goes blank. Oh Baaaawwwwbbbbb?
You know what we remind me of? Those screaming fans that used to stay outside the Beatles' hotel rooms and scream while waiting for glimpses of the beloved Fab Four. (Showing my age, much?) I think if this was a different time and medium, we would be called groupies. I much prefer cherry bombs, though.
But what is REALLY sad is that we are already here, hanging on his every word, er, lack of words.... Face it guys--we have no life! ;~D
Oh my. You're right. here we sit - hanging on to nothing. Its sad. So sad. We could be doing something constructive. Like reading a book.
Don't Look Down
Romantic Adventure
Crusie/Mayer
TA DA!
In Stores Now
www.crusiemayer.com/blog
Be careful, Bob. White space draws fire. :)
Maybe he really did choke. Maybe Jenny should check on him. He may need to be Heimliched.
yes, we are the Cherry Bombs. Even just a title of post is worthy of comment, whether there is content or not :)
I think its a test. They're probably sitting there talking over breakfast and saying "we could blog anything and they'd respond." And Bob says "heck we could blog nothing and they'd respond."
Egad. He's right.
Norma, that's just what I was thinking! This could be a last desperate cry for help! Bob, choking on a vitamin, crawling across the hotel room floor to his laptop, tapping out a couple of final words... we may be witnesses to a tragedy here!
...and yeah, we really will comment on anything, won't we? Hee.
He's probably just too afraid to write. As is evidenced by our discussion now, we don't need much (or anything for that matter) to break out the pom-poms and start cheering for DLD, Jenny, Bob, etc.
Not to mention there are some pretty unstable people on this blog (me included) who either think they have multiple personality disorder or have tricked themselves into believing it by seeing their name appear so many times on screen. Or something like that...
He's probably also trying to avoid posting the skirt picture. Imagine the ruckus that will cause. ;)
Bob! Speak to us! Please!
I must not have a life either since I thought there HAD to be a point to an empty blog post if it generated 13 comments.
The comments sections also inspired me to check the bestseller lists on Amazon-- something I NEVER do. DLD is still #1 for Romance!
Was he popping a vitamin when he wrote this? Is this The End????
Okay, I'm starting to worry now. We might need a Special Cherrybomb Forces group to go woman the Moot signal.
Bob, you knew if you mentioned Elizabeth Bishop four or five times Jenny would kill you. You just HAD to push her buttons, didn't you.
Now, we have to teach Moot to talk. He's the only witness to testify to the fact that YOU DESERVED IT!
lbooth
Do you think Bob forgot and told Jenny that Korean Restaurant story again? Anyone check the local hospitals?
As to the plan, Margarita Christina, I think we need someone in the local area to man the light, like Cherry Magic Sheryl or someone else in the vicinity of Boston. Although, I think I am starting to agree with lbooth and that Jenny throttled Bob for saying the Elizabeth Bishop comment ad nauseum. I know I would...
This is a test! - only a test of the cherrybomb emergency blogging network.
This is a blog subtle and flexible enough to be the same thing as an absence of any blog whatever.
I'm impressed. It's positively Derridian in its audacious grasp of post-colonial modern deconstructive literary criticism.
Reading these comments is almost as funny as reading SWHW. Thanks for morning entertainment!
His seriousness is flexible enough to be the absence of any seriousness whatsoever.
Maybe he put the ugly shirt on again today, popped his vitamin pill as Jenny arrived to take him to breakfast, she saw red went for the throat, started shaking him screaming about the shirt, he tried to say it's a joke, then aspirated the pill. And now Jenny's standing over him wondering if it's worth saving someone who doesn't give a s**t about fashion.
SERIOUSLY THOUGH, (all caps for those who need a slice of Bob) the blog has been doing weird stuff and my aol went crazy last night, couldn't send messages for quite a while.
I popped on to comment on this morning's blog- but I guess anything I'd have to say would be... MOOT
Sorry
Christina T - question: Let's say we get the Moot signal working in the Boston vicin. Who's supposed to respond? Mollie? One of the hit women? And would it be a good idea to advertise that the digiting duo might be vulnerable? Speen might be watching.
25 comments (now 26) about nothing. Heh.
Is this a subtle homage to Seinfeld?
Richa,
I was thinking the same thing. Jenny told him no talking about Seinfeld during interviews, but did she say he couldn't blog about it? :)
It's a postmodern statement about the inherently confining nature of narrative structure. The white space frees the viewer to invent and reinvent, define and redefine, language events as simple perspectives, inextricably placed as they are within contexts not of the viewer's choosing.
And that's why I abandoned my formal study of literature. Not that there's anything wrong with formal study or literature. As long as shoes are involved.
Christina B - I'm thinkin' Moot responds by battling Speen, Hit Women, Godzilla, etc. and then saves the day by pulling a Superman and flying around the Earth in reverse, hence going back in time to the point where Bob almost dies (whatever way - choose your method) and saves him. And probably also saves Jenny from going to jail for almost killing Bob (if we go by that scenario). Then all will be well in the Cherry Bomb world. Does that work for you? Did I leave anything out? (Like possibly the skirt photo...)
Can't resist...must comment on empty post...
Actually, I wanted to share. I just did my part and bought DLD!! It looks fabulous! And I managed to get a couple talking points in while checking out. (TA-DA) :)
Now, can I resist reading it for the next couple weeks until after I finish writing my conference papers? Have I ever managed to resist reading a new book?
Theresa in Pittsburgh
Forget Superman - Wonder Woman has her own plane.
Now, if we make that change - who is going to go back and "fix everything else"?
I think maybe one of the SMP hitwomen...err, ladies, found out about the fact that he knew they were on to him. One quick call to "mother" and they had a flight plan at the ready.
One of them slipped into the room, disguised as Room Service, took on an Althea persona, asked to see his gun, and needled him. The other made sure to disarm the Moot signal, so Jenny couldn't call for help.
This is getting a bit distressing. What will we do tomorrow? Heck, forget tomorrow! How will we make it through the rest of TODAY?!? One blank blog and we're all about to lose it.
Sad state of the CherryBombs, for sure. Bob would expect more from us.
Amen to that, Naked u.m.c!
Give me genre over the literary canon any day. There simply aren't enough literary analyses about shoes as a metaphor :)
Dee, OMG! Do you think the SMP hitwomen know about this blog? Because if so, they may be onto us!
"It's a postmodern statement about the inherently confining nature of narrative structure." -- heh.
I call it Before Inspiration. You could print this blog post (sans comments, of course) on a white canvas and sell it to a pretentious art poseur for a small fortune.
Clearly, this was Bob's tribute to Elizabeth Bishop. Subtle and flexible.
electric,
If they don't know, they aren't really paying attention to the talking points, are they?
Then again, maybe that's a good thing...too busy talking into their wrist transmitters just might get us enough time to fire up the Moot signal.
That Bob. Ever the minimalist.
This is the best post yet. Not because there isn't anything, but because of the response to nothing.
Very true, Dee! Which is good, because the side that has the best communication wins.
I guess that makes all of us some kind of distributed-processing Oracle. Works for me...
Now here I thought that Bob had gone 180 degrees from the tour-mania posts and achieved zen calm. He could blog... or not.
Sort of like Catch Bull at Four.
(Points to people who know the artist that did that album. Alas, they won't be moot points.)
Liz - very zen. Practically Calvino, but in a good non-tosspot way.
Mary Stella, that would be Cat Stevens of course.
So, this is your Seinfeld post right? The Post About Nothing?
OK, It took me a minute but it did make me LOL!
I'm actually glad everyone commented. It's been a couple of days since I could web and I thought for sure Bob had posted something good that had been deleted and was kicking myself. Thank goodness for the comments. Now I know exactly what I missed!
yes, nothing like missing nothing. 47 posts when I checked in. Love it.
LOL Liz!
This is a riot.
I blame the allergy medication. Maybe, in Fuzzy, the post looks full?
"Bob's attempt to change the course of American culture, by employing the absence of any method whatever. Good One Bob!"
Loved this comment!! Just goes to show the Bob and Jenny show doesn't translate to 'Seriously'.
Do you think he meant it to be one of those one-liner emails he uses to... what was that wonderful term? Something to do with old fashioned street lanterns... Jenny?
Seriously, now :) what was that word?
Christina
Could't post sooner, was on a state of high alert in the lobby, workshops and dining room keeping vigilance over the Moot Signal. The camo skirt was highly effective at allowing me to blend in. Will update later
Christina Channeling Cherry Magic Sheryl
This is very zen of him...
Okay, I can't resist posting here! Fifty-four (now 55 with me) posts about nothing! LOL!
You people thought the blog entry was blank? You didn't appreciate the complete transcription of the John Cage score???
Er, who's John Cage?
I learn so much from the Cherrybombs...
JOHN CAGE IN ONE MINUTE
Seminal figure of the American avant-garde
Schoenberg described him as "not a composer, but an inventor of genius"
Invented the prepared piano, where the sound is modified by objects attached to the strings
An avid collector of mushrooms
His most notorious work consists of 4'33" of silence
Collaborated for many years with dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham
Asked about death, he replied: "That's a mystery the solution of which interests me very much"
[I believe he also wrote a solo piece for cello to be performed by a female cellist clad only in Saran Wrap.]
Now you've done it talpiana, stunned the CBs into silence. To think that there is a musical genius, albeit dead (or older than God), the equal of our very own Bawb. Nah.
Zaza, would our Bob go this far?
From CNN.com, 9/02:
LONDON, England -- A bizarre legal battle over a minute's silence in a recorded song has ended with a six-figure out-of-court settlement.
British composer Mike Batt found himself the subject of a plagiarism action for including the song, "A One Minute Silence," on an album for his classical rock band The Planets.
He was accused of copying it from a work by the late American composer John Cage, whose 1952 composition "4'33"" was totally silent.
On Monday, Batt settled the matter out of court by paying an undisclosed six-figure sum to the John Cage Trust.
Batt, who is best known in the UK for his links with the children's television characters The Wombles, told the Press Association: "This has been, albeit a gentlemanly dispute, a most serious matter and I am pleased that Cage's publishers have finally been persuaded that their case was, to say the least, optimistic.
"We are, however, making this gesture of a payment to the John Cage Trust in recognition of my own personal respect for John Cage and in recognition of his brave and sometimes outrageous approach to artistic experimentation in music."
Batt credited "A One Minute Silence" to "Batt/Cage."
Before the start of the court case, Batt had said: "Has the world gone mad? I'm prepared to do time rather than pay out. We are talking as much as £100,000 in copyright.
"Mine is a much better silent piece. I have been able to say in one minute what Cage could only say in four minutes and 33 seconds."
Batt gave a cheque to Nicholas Riddle, managing director of Cage's publishers Peters Edition, on the steps of the High Court, in London.
Riddle said: "We feel that honour has been settled.
"We had been prepared to make our point more strongly on behalf of Mr Cage's estate, because we do feel that the concept of a silent piece -- particularly as it was credited by Mr Batt as being co-written by "Cage" -- is a valuable artistic concept in which there is a copyright.
"We are nevertheless very pleased to have reached agreement with Mr Batt over this dispute, and we accept his donation in good spirit."
"A One Minute Silence" has now been released as part of a double A-side single.
What happened??? There's only 60 comments left.
What's that you say? I have no life? Hey, I'm in the zone, here, people!
lbjjqo
like Bob, Jenny just quacked out
No one said it had to make sense.
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