My favorite summary of Yrnameer so far, courtesy of an eighth-grader who has listed three books on his blog that he intends to read for his humanities class:
“Sheriff of Yrnameer by Seth Grahame-Smith authour of pride and prejudice and zombies
this story is about space guy named joe. It is the future and earth has been reduced to a pile of rubble. Cole is a guy on the run from the evil guy and he faced many problems (a cargo hold full of freeze-dried orphans; a corporate training satellite filled with bloodthirsty zombies). He reaches Yrnameer (your name here) where a bandit has threatened the cizilians to give up all there crops.This story appeals to me because it is set in the future and its a comedy and an adventure story. This is my favorite out of my 3 choices and i think i am going to read this one.”
Lovely footage of underwater volcano. Particularly enjoy the University of Washington spokesman (”Bright red molten lava! Explosions! Degassing!”), who appears to be speaking at some sort of trade show for cool-ass s***.
The American Idol winner will be doing a Sessions in our studio today. Probably won’t be sporting assless chaps, pink pantyhose, horns and a mangina like Oderus Urungus was yesterday. In a slightly awkward segue that is in no way related to the previous sentence, I’m hoping we’ll also get Adam Lambert soon.
I’m probably the last person who has seen this, but it’s worth posting. I’d embed it but they’ve disabled the embed code. Fantastic. I’m hoping that it’s all truly handmade without CGI.
Oderus Urungus of Gwar fame stopped by for a highly amusing interview that will appear on Noisecreep.com. Note the toothed mangina. Should I have given him a copy of the book? I should have given him a copy of the book. Hmm. Too late.
Samantha Bee recently took part in a discussion hosted by the Connecticut Forum* along with the very funny Daily Show EP David Javerbaum, humorist Randy Cohen, and Jason Alexander from Seinfeld. When asked what she was reading she kindly said my book, because she’s a friend and I’d sent her a copy and she knew I’d make her feel guilty if she didn’t.
* If you’re unfamiliar with the Connecticut Forum but are wondering if it’s perhaps a nationally recognized, one-of-a-kind nonprofit based in Hartford, CT that presents live, unscripted panel discussions among renowned experts and celebrities with the mission of encouraing the free and active exchange of ideas in Forums that inform, challenge, entertain, inspire and build bridges among all people and organizations in the community, you’d be right.
Michael Rubens is a television writer and producer whose credits include CNN, the Travel Channel, Oxygen, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where he was a field producer. The Sheriff of Yrnameer is his first novel. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, to help alleviate that area's critical shortage of writers and producers.
Michael is represented by John Silbersack at Trident Media Group.
