Comments on: Enough With The BEA Already

By: Booksquare

Booksquare — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:01:36 +0000

Well, considering the price of valet parking, I’ll skip the cockroaches. And stale coffee? Really, they are so suffering. We are living large. Plus, how often does one encounter an insane editor in one’s backyard?

By: David Thayer

David Thayer — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 01:05:40 +0000

Your identification of this peculiar envy of BEA attendees reflects my own. Common sense dictates that we’re better off at home, free of tote bags and stale coffee. Having spent my formative years in the Big Apple I know what subway dust smells like. The westside has cockroaches large enough to require valet parking, yet it all seems inviting when viewed from a distance.

By: Booksquare

Booksquare — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:23:39 +0000

Karen — You wouldn’t be going against traffic alone; that much I can promise you. We do not need such aggravation in our lives. We are much happier and healthier. Technology today allows us to enjoy events with the level of coverage that makes it seem like we’re there; why fight crowds and such when others are willing to do the heavy lifting?

Though, Gwenda, a fistfight with an editor could be something to lure me out of the cave. I love nothing more than a good scandal…

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:35:02 +0000

These things give me hives. I get confused, and lonely. I’m usually one of those idiots trudging up an aisle against traffic, a crumpled program in my fist, on some stubborn journey to go hear a speaker who has long since cancelled his/her appearance. Plus, the bathrooms at convention centers are never ever clean.

Free books would be cool, though. And I do hope Mark returns with compromising photos of SOMEBODY.

By: gwenda

gwenda — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 15:58:20 +0000

Exactly. And I’m almost positive my feet would hurt and I’d fall asleep during a panel and, and, and what if I got in a fistfight with a major editor? So MUCH better here at home.

By: Booksquare

Booksquare — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 15:24:46 +0000

So right — I mean, we’d be fighting the crowds and humidity and, oh, hauling extremely heavy bags around. So much better to sit in a sunny backyard, sipping a nice wine, birds chirping, book in lap, that sort of thing. You are so right in saying that BEA wouldn’t compare to the real fun we’re having.

By: gwenda

gwenda — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 15:03:48 +0000

Let’s spearhead the BEA Jealousy Backlash? How about it? We can do things like go see movies and say, “I’d just be exhausted and irritated at BEA… right?”