Last night Bob and I went to see Mary Jo Pehl, upcoming LAFF participant and former MST3K performer/writer, give a lecture on the topic of "How Not to Write A Book" at the BookNozzle. When I casually mentioned that this fine woman was doing this presentation at BookNoz AND that she was doing stand-up at LAFF, my husband, in short order, crapped himself, pissed himself, did a little dance, made a little love, passed out, came to, and flushed red as a beet. One might argue that MJP is Bob's equivalent of Martin Donovan. Only MJP lives in Austin and can ostensibly be Bob's friend.
So, alongside my crushy fan boy, I attended her reading. Apparently, some guy with a small comic book publishing concern offered her a book deal out of nowhere based on her MST cred and she took it without asking enough questions, and then she was unhappy with the book when it came out.
She was super cool and nice when we introduced ourselves, and she said nice things to me about being a writer.
MJ is teaching a writing class at BookNozzle that I'm thinking of taking, about "writing your humor." I have tons of humor to write.
Posted by Zerd at March 19, 2008 01:36 PM