The WAIW? quest began in Honduras where I tracked down the factory that made my Tattoo T-shirt. Herve Villechaize played Tattoo on the 70s hit Fantasy Island. Today I stumbled upon this video. Enjoy!
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I’ve started to do some interviews, and I think I could benefit from a little practice. Because when you’re talking about issues such as globalization, outsourcing, child labor, and sweatshops, sometimes it can get a little dicey.
Let’s just say that I may have endorsed the widespread use of child labor yesterday, which, just to be clear, I don’t.
Anyhow, send me a question or two that you would ask so I can brush up on my answers.
Thanks….
“I’m not asking,” I told Annie. “I’d feel stupid.”
We were in the business section of a local Barnes & Noble. Our extensive search didn’t turn up a single copy of WAIW? and according to their website they had it in stock.
“Okay,” she said, “I’ll ask.”
She approached the bookseller at the help desk. He looked it up on his computer and then headed for the business section.
“Wait, there it is.” Annie pointed to a pile of books on a trolley waiting to be shelved. The bookseller pulled it out, handed it to her, and then went about his business.
It wasn’t as cool as seeing it on the shelf. But holding my (our) book in a real-life bookstore was pretty cool. We scampered…
This year for Halloween Annie and I sat on our front porch wearing masks. We stared straight ahead and didn’t move. (You’ve never seen a fiercer pregnant goblin than Annie, trust me.) Anyhow, we had a big ol’ dish of candy between us and we were enjoying the holiday, discussing how next year we’d have a little demon to dress up. More than one kid hesitated before approaching us. Some, in fact, skipped our house altogether, leaving more candy for us. Still, most came and took a couple of handfuls.
The evening was a success.
A couple of days later while making my internet rounds, I came across this post about fair trade chocolate. A lot of cocoa comes from Africa and is…
From NPR’s Morning Edition:
So while it’s still early to predict what a slowdown in U.S. consumer spending would mean for Vietnam, workers on the production floor at state-owned garment factory Hanosimex are already worried.
Nguyen Thi Thao is grateful for the $70 a month she makes. The 28-year-old has a husband and a 9-month-old baby.
“I watch the news on TV, and I heard about all the trouble in the U.S.,” she says, “and I know it will affect us, because if the U.S. economy slows down, Americans might reduce orders and spending. And that might mean fewer jobs for people like me.”
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More from Morning Edition: Bosniaks are Obamaniacs….
It’s like Christmas without the food, cookies, cinnamon candles, and family, and with all of the neurosis.
Annie told me on the phone that two hot-off the presses hardcover copies of Where Am I Wearing? had arrived.
I drilled her with questions. “How big is it? Does it look like a real book? You know, like an actual adult book? Well, I didn’t mean adult. You…uh…you know what I mean, don’t ya?
“It looks good.” That’s about all I could get out of her.
We hung up and my wheels were still turning. “Oh my God,” I thought. “The dedication and the acknowledgments!” I wanted to be there when she read them.
I called her back. “Did you read them?”
“Did I read what?” she said.
“The…
Apparently the 90-word write up in TIME Magazine isn’t in every issue of TIME. From the best I can tell, the piece is in the issue sent to subscribers, but not in the one available on newsstands. This is somewhat disappointing, but I find consolation in the fact that 3.4 million folks subscribe to TIME. If 1% of them bought my book, I would be pretty stoked.
I still haven’t seen a real life version of the review. My brother has. He said that there is a pic of the book to accompany the blurb. Kyle, if you’re reading this could you scan the page and email it to me. I kind of feel like I need to prove myself here. …
