Happy Hour - Michael Chabon - Happy Hour

Michael Chabon is a pretty cool fella it turns out. His lecture at Pierce College was read, something that initially put me off but eventually engrossed me. It was almost a short story in and of itself, including a good ending quote--"We're the Washington Post. We print facts."

The sentence probably doesn't make much sense to you, but I discovered that on the same day he gave his lecture to us, he published an article in the Huffington Post that slams the Washington Post writer Richard Cohen for trying to smear Obama.

His Q&A was very good too--lots of good questions, lots of good answers. I myself asked him how he handles genre, since he works so much with "genre fiction" like mysteries and children's books. I was also really stupid and forgot to bring a book for him to sign and since I have them all, I didn't really want to buy another one and get it signed. So I settled for a handshake and went my merry way.

We did start the evening with a couple friends at the Pacific Grill Happy Hour, which has some very fine (and not spendy) things on it. Interesting things, too, like spicy roasted pumpkin seeds, blue cheese tater tots, and Kobe beef hot dog sliders.

After the lecture, which was also attended by ZestyEnterprise and her SB, the four of us couldn't figure out where to go and eventually ended up right back at Pacific Grill for their second Happy Hour, from 9 - 10. Same good stuff, same good prices, but ... you know, later.

It was a very full and very fun night out. Thanks to Pierce College for bringing such a cool writer!