Open Thread – Going Rouge in My Mailbox and on Firedoglake!
10 12 2009
I finally got my copy of Going Rouge today! I opened my mailbox to find the big white envelope I’d been waiting for. I flipped through and there was my essay – the last entry in the “Half-Baked Alaska” chapter – pages 109-117 to be exact. I am immediately preceded by Alaskans Elstun Lauesen and Shannyn Moore. I am in good company.
It was definitely a little surreal to see my name in a book at all, nevermind one with Sarah Palin on the cover. I never would have imagined in a million years…
You can order your own copy of Going Rouge – An American NightmareHERE, and it is now also available in bookstores!
Do it quick because on Saturday from 5-7pm Eastern time (2-4 Pacific – 1-3pm Alaska) I’ll be your host on the Firedoglake book salon! My guests will be Colin Robinson from O/R books, and Richard Kim of The Nation who edited Going Rouge with Betsy Reed. It should be a lot of fun, and I’m really looking forward to it. I’ll have an introduction posted on Firedoglake and then we’ll be taking your questions and inviting you to join in the discussion.
It’s a fantastic book, and an innovative publishing company. All we need now is you! I’ll put up a post on Saturday with the specifics.
I’ve already pored through it, and beLIEVE me, it’s a whole lot better than that “other” book. (shudder)
December 10th, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Newfoundland Dogs Rule @23 -
Awesome news…and isn’t it great to get it just before the holidays!
BuffaloGal – How are things in your neck of the woods tonight? I’m in a NW suburb of Roch and we didn’t get much total snow accumulation, but the wind was blowing so hard this afternoon that visibility was down to less than 1/10 mile. When I headed home about 3:00 there were already about 40 accidents on the roads and rush hour hadn’t even started yet. I was supposed to have an event at school tonight but it was cancelled, thank goodness! I got to come home, get into my nice warm fleecies, have a leftover chicken enchilada and curl up with my computer mouse. If it’s this nasty here, I can only imagine what it’s like closer to Lake Erie.
Stay warm and safe, all you WNYers and anyone else who’s battling this lovely welcome-to-winter storm!
December 10th, 2009 at 3:05 PM
She just doesn’t shut up, does she?
December 10th, 2009 at 3:30 PM
@53 Silly Sarah was in CS,CO on Tuesday night. The local neocon rag of a newspaper had many comments, majority including mine against her. Pretty bad when stupid sarah shows up in dr. dobson land & more dislike her than like her. My email is new I hope this goes through…
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Same in Salt Lake. Most of the comments are not positive toward Palin. Someone is creating a lot of hype around her, but 1,000 people in a big city will NOT an election win. I was reading that “she signed hundreds of books” in SLC yesterday and the crowd was thin. Utah is so RED even the rocks are red, so that was a poor showing.
On another blog, someone just called her a Political Prostitute. I thought that was very fitting. Her beliefs and values are those whispered in her ear for that day…..for cash, I’m sure.
December 10th, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Leenie17 @99 – I’m laughing really hard! At the VERY moment I was reading your post asking, “How are things in your neck of the woods”, The front door of the house and the “side back” door went flying open allowing snow to come twirling through the living room and kitchen. It’s like a Christmas Wonderland in here at the moment. If Santa wandered through I would not be surprised.
AND – It was funny enough to choose to finish this post before trotting off to close and lock the doors . I’ll grumble tomorrow when I come down the stairs to find my socks getting wet from the snow I let in.
Sometimes a good and timely blog post wins over wet socks.
(I’m pretty sure that is a direct Reagan quote. I think Palin referenced it in “Going Rogue” )
December 10th, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Hey AKM, if you want, I can try and get her to sign it on Sunday. Fox News accidentaly used a graphic of the cover of Going Rouge once when talking about the other book, the one of fiction. It probably would go right past her. But really, I was thinking of getting a book and having her sign the page with the “quote” by legendary basketball coach John Wooden. The proofers at Harper Collins must be the same people who “inadvertently” aired the wrong film when showing one of her book signings.
December 10th, 2009 at 3:58 PM
I just came back from two days up in the Big City, Phoenix. Because we have no bookstores in a 30-mile radius here, I made tracks to the first big book store I found, which happened to be a Borders. (Hey, even a big chain store looks good when you’re as book-deprived as I am!) They had no big flashy displays of Scarah’s book, which initially cheered me a great deal. However, I sound found small piles of them scattered around the store. I made sure to turn over the top copy in every pile I saw. At one table, they were included with several stacks of biographies and autobiographies of other individuals, and RIGHT NEXT to the Scarah stack were several copies of a Molly Ivins bio. Ha-ha, I chortled, as I buried the Sacarah books underneath several volumes of Molly. I could swear I heard a Texas-accented voice chuckling at me from more celestial regions. I am sure that Borders employess are still finding upsdie down copies of Scarah’s book all over the store and wondering what happened. It ain’t much, folks, but it sure felt good.
December 10th, 2009 at 5:06 PM
bucsfan, I saw on another site that you don’t get your own book back. They take you book and put it in a pile, then they pick up a book from another pile and hand it to Palin.
Sounds like they are trying to avoid getting punked. LOL
They probably flip though the pages to make sure it’s clean before it goes in the pile to sign.
December 10th, 2009 at 5:08 PM
I was just on another site and they had Palin’s tweets from yesterday. She was in SLC and said, “we were able to start early so we could see more people”.
She didn’t mention that there wasn’t a long line and the newspaper said she signed hundreds of books, not thousands. Bwwwhahahah! The reporter said she walked right in.
Palin, Just creatin’ her own hype.
December 10th, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Yep! She’s very good at creating her own hype! You betcha!
December 10th, 2009 at 6:32 PM
BuffaloGal @ 102 -
I’ll grumble tomorrow when I come down the stairs to find my socks getting wet from the snow I let in.
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No problem. Just put on your yellow rubber boots before you go down the stairs!
December 10th, 2009 at 9:12 PM
I bought a copy of Going Rouge at our local bookstore. I have been devouring it at a rapid pace. I was so excited to see that several of my very favorite pieces that were written during the campaign were included. Such lovely memories of blasting those links to everyone I knew. It’s like a good bottle of wine that can be savored over and over. AKM could probably make a book of mudpups comments over the past year (esp some of the juicy rants).
I was waiting at an appointment today and indulging in the guilty pleasure of a People magazine. While trying to find the page with pictures of Johnny Depp (true eye candy for me) what do my wondering eyes did appear but a story on SP entitled “She’s not quitting, she’s reloading” (A papa Heath quote I believe). It was a short fluff piece with lots of pictures (some from her book). But what really caught my eye was at the end there was a quote about a prayer that she and Toad say “everynight”. Classic Palin—”May we always be happy-and may our enemies know it”. Now there is a good christian thought for the day, eh? They really haven’t evolved past high school (either one of them).
And how dare she even remotely try to compare her incompetent self to President Obama. I think that our involvement in these wars is entirely GW’s fault (and I emphasize the word fault). He rushed in without blinkin because Cheney wanted it. I think that we should all want to live in a world without wars. Unfortunately it is people like SP that propagate wars in this world. I wonder how many Americans would be all for these wars if we had a draft?
December 10th, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Sarah Palin goes head to head with Albert Gore
December 10th, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Newfie — Great, great news. Best wishes.
December 10th, 2009 at 9:41 PM
You muddies will like this… I went to the Elmendorf AFB base exchange store today, after hearing on the local Anchorage news that $arah will do a book signing event this Sunday (13th) afternoon. I saw the pile of her books on a display table right inside the entrance. Picked up a book, taped a correct-sized picture of the Going Rouge cover over the regular book cover, set the modified book standing up next to the “real” one on top of the table-full of her books, and grabbed a Blackberry photo, with the sign advertising the upcoming book signing date in the background. This is sort of like the Brian-in-the-photo pics AKM has collected, but I unfortunately did not have Brian or his clone handy to be in the picture. Here’s hoping AKM gets my email of the photo and can post it for a chuckle.
The Elmendorf signing will not be open to the general public, just those with regular base access. Sorry, I don’t think I can stand to wait around all morning for a five-second thrill… (I was thinking, as I’m sure others have, it would be fun to slip her book jacket over Going Rouge, and get her to sign the “alternate”, but someone mentions up above that the handlers are already beating that game by taking your book and giving you another signed official one, so it would be a bust!!)
December 10th, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Susie Snowflake @ 59:
Check the biographical listing m on p 330 at the back for Going Rouge. It says that
Elstun Lauesen is a rural affairs specialist in Alaska.
Newfoundland Dogs Rule: enormous ((((((((((HUGS)))))))))) for the great news!
December 10th, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Newfoundland….I’m so happy for you and wish you well with ongoing tests. Positive thoughts!!!!!
AKM…..write a book! I know you have one in you. Do it!
December 11th, 2009 at 7:13 AM
What a great cover!
December 11th, 2009 at 7:29 AM
Spent another evening skipping around in Going Rouge. AKM & Shannyn’s masterpieces are worth the price all by themselves.
What I’m finding most interesting about the book is not the light it shows on Sarah Palin, but who her supporters are and why she appeals to them. Combine that with certain chapters from What Hath God Wrought [a history of the US from 1815-1848] and a rather scary picture emerges. That era ended in the Civil War. If history doesn’t repeat itself, but echoes, we face some frightening times.
But then, don’t we always?
December 11th, 2009 at 9:31 AM
I got my copy of Going Rouge yesterday as well… one note of caution… try not to read it before going to sleep… gave me nightmares! Otherwise it’s very comforting, and… scary at the same time.
thanks again Mudflats!
December 11th, 2009 at 7:03 PM
@ Political Prostitute – AGREE! did anyone see this article? I find its interesting she will spin speaking here…its amazing how she drops for money – supposedly they are paying her $200K speaking fee…locals there are planning a protest…
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/11/palin-canada-hospital/
Palin might be surprised to learn that the hospital she is fundraising for runs counter to her professed beliefs:
– St. Peter’s Hospital is a public hospital within the national Canadian healthcare system. In Palin’s worldview, universal, government-insured health care is “socialism.”
– [b]St. Peter’s Hospital performs abortions. Palin, a staunch anti-choice zealot, has protested outside of abortion clinics and has refused to denounce abortion clinic bombers as terrorists.[/b]
– St. Peter’s Hospital, through its Centre for Studies in Aging, offers “advanced directives.” Palin tried to derail health reform earlier this year by falsely labeling advanced directive reimbursements as “death panels.”
December 11th, 2009 at 8:47 PM
If you truly believe you are carrying out divine will, then there is no need for restraint.” Remind anyone of a certain someone and I don’t mean Bush either,maybe that’s why she thinks it is her right to make things up. or exaggerate.
Newfoundland Dogs Rule Glad to hear it wasn’t cancer and pray you will will get thru this.;I also pre ordered the book when it was first mentioned.I am not fond of reading non fiction but found as with the last few I bought this fall once I started I could not stop..I also kind of put it out their that the bots should read this book as it gives the other side and is not for the most part one sided.IMO It is also not a palin bashing book despite it’s name.I went to a site I know they read at and gave the name and how to order it and told them if someone read palins book they should also read this one and get some perspective.
December 12th, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Can’t wait to get my copy! AKM & Shannyn are Alaskan heros.