Thursday, June 12, 2014

Hillary's Book Signing Rules.


In which we ridicule policy and the individual at the same time. 
* Your wristband provides access to the 4th floor signing line, but does not  guarantee any certain spot in the line
* Please purchase your book for the signing at the cash register. You will be handed your book on the 4th floor.
* 1 book per person, 1 wristband per person. NO exceptions.
* ALL PERSONAL ITEMS will be checked in the 2nd floor. You may claim your bag once you exit the signing.
* The only items permitted on the 4th floor are a wallet, cell phone, and/or small, personal camera
* There will be a security checkpoint on the 3rd Floor. Once you are cleared and enter the 4th floor, you are not permitted to exit until your book is signied.
* She will not be personalizing the book or signing memorabilia. NO posed photography with the author.
* We strongly recommend consuming food or beverages and using restrooms prior to entering the store. If you must exit the line, you will lose your space.

Thank you for you understanding please enjoy.

Oh, don't thank me. I do not have any of that understanding nor enjoyment. 

There is a page 2. but it appears to be fraudulent. Funny as h-e-double police sticks, but fraudulent. Page 3 in the comments. Surely you can think of some good rules yourself. 

Truth revolt. org.   http://tinyurl.com/kqgtruu

See? This is what I meant way back there at the 420 festival a few blocks from my home. Easy enough to go there and participate but they had me walk an extra two blocks to snake my way through barriers when all they had to do was allow me to step through a gap right there at the logical spot that was unnecessarily guarded. I decided at that point not to participate due to layered ridiculous rules. I copped a bad attitude. Then I observed the person of color allow access through the gap for other persons of color. So after all that the rules really are flexible, but not for me. I yelled out my protest from a distance, in public. And that breaks another rule. A rule of my class that cringes with embarrassment for yelling in public. And yelling at people, service people at that, a woman besides, it is unacceptable. But there I am yelling anyway. That's how cross I was at ridiculous rules that would have me walking extra blocks. Yet everyone else found that perfectly acceptable and had a great time celebrating. Celebrating what?  Freedom! The freedom for doing something they should have had freedom of doing all along, and in a society that brags about its vaunted freedoms. Ew, I get cross all over again.

And you know what? While I'm on it, here's another thing. My home, home on the range was cloudy all day today. All day! And not a deer or antelope in sight. I have had it with all this false advertisement. 

1st floor, 2nd floor, and now you're locked into it, 3rd floor, 4th floor. Jesus Christ what a hassle just for a book. Four floors for a book signing! Who would put up with that crap? What kind of personality tolerates that? I do not want to be anywhere near them. 

Politico's Maggie Haberman tweeted the list of guidelines, she being one of the first in line. That is who would brook such nonsense. For a story, I suppose.

35 comments:

Guildofcannonballs said...

The title of the post signifies preferences those whom have "Huzzahed" in the past won't be prone, overly, now, to do, for reasons various.

Guildofcannonballs said...

I was really hoping to post a link to Standing In The Shadows Of Love but y'all ain't be enablin' yo.

ampersand said...

For all the grief Rick Lazio took for walking up and "Invading Her Personal Space", he should have mashed a grapefruit in her lying ass mug.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I think it was in "Big Red Son" that David Foster Wallace describes the strange phenomenon of guys waiting in line to get an autograph and a picture of themselves standing next to a porn actress.

Different strokes, I suppose.

edutcher said...

Who does she think she is?

Diana Ross?

Karen of Texas said...

Interesting the comparison between her and a Sarah signing. Idk if it's changed, but a multitude of years ago when Palin came through Texas towns for her signing, she mingled amongst the crowd in butt freezing cold forever. Event coordinators kept trying to hurry her along. Her dad and husband continued to mingle even when she went inside.

Of course she wasn't a Senator. Or ex first lady. Or hated or anything like that...

Meade said...

I'm ready for Hillary.

KCFleming said...

She's got another goddamn book?

Is Hillary broke again?

Jesus, get that lady an accountant.

KCFleming said...

Her books are probably like L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction and other crap, where the organization buys a bazillion and warehouses them, to juice the sales figures. Then give 'em away free or landfill them.

And I would expect the only people actually reading the shit are the GOP for oppo research and mockery.

Yes, maybe the electorate is stupid and venal enough to vote for her, even as her only actual job in her life (SOS) has resulted in a clusterfuck of regional violence.

Meade said...

The more her haters squawk, the better she does. Why is that? A.: sympathy. Decent people dislike bullies and especially men bullying women.

deborah said...

Pogo, I think it's time to upgrade to Pogo Has A Pulse :)

Re SOS job, she was carrying out the orders of the president. Who for a long time side-lined her to women's issues abroad.

KCFleming said...

Heh.

Is Hillary claiming she was 'only following orders'?

Sounds sorta Nuremberg-y.

Unknown said...

Please purchase your HYPE and then proceed to worship with this new tattoo.

KCFleming said...

I din't see the rule about kissing her ring. Is that optional?

Would she accept a cigar as a token of appreciation for signing?

Is the ghostwriter signing too?

deborah said...

I don't know what she's saying, but I'm guessing she'll stand behind Obama and defend their actions. Just like she never apologized for her Authorization For Use Of Force vote.

But it'll be a tough slog. It's possible she's hyping interest just to fill a war chest, only to bow out, but I think she'll go for it. It's a game for her.

KCFleming said...

Will she sign the June 2014 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine?

Can I buy an Archie's comic book instead of her doorstop?

I want her to read from 'her book' in that I ain't no-ways tahrrd" accent. That would be great.

KCFleming said...

I am going to wait for the graphic novel version.

I want to see how the artist handles the Fresnel lenses.

Plus, how to draw her ankles? Avoid entirely by hiding them behind bushes? Pants? A cartoonist-to-the-star's nightmare.

Meade said...

There you go — attack her for her ankles. The women LOVE that when you attack another woman (or anyone for that matter) for her looks or other things she has no power to change.

Smooth move. Swift.

KCFleming said...

TILT.

Darcy said...

WNI;PO

Darcy said...

And yeah, Pogo. Time to update Pogo's status!

Calypso Facto said...

And for an apparently crappy book to boot.

KCFleming said...

I myself want to read the chapter where she writes of their Grapes of Wrath days, that hardscrabble time after Bill was done being Prez, where they were barely scraping by.

That's where the graphic novel would be best.
I'd pose her in that Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother image, in a trailer court, smoking a cigarette.

No, a joint, to make her all up-to-date with the yoots.

And counting change on her chipped Formica kitchen table, all worried where the next meal was coming from.

KCFleming said...

@ Deb and darcy:

NEW STATUS!

ndspinelli said...

"All politicians lie, but the Clintons are so god at it, it's troubling." David Geffen

ndspinelli said...

"I exited the plane in Bosnia under sniper fire."

ndspinelli said...

"I could have stayed home and baked cookies."

ndspinelli said...

"At this point, what does it matter,"

Michael Haz said...

Hugs Darcy.

Fox has been doing a series in which they send a reporter to Hillary book signings and ask people waiting in line to name Hillary's accomplishments. It's hilarious. The answer to the reporter's question is usually a blank expression. Yo can almost hear crickets chirping.

No one in line for her autograph can name one thing she has accomplished.

Neither can her press secretary Jen Psaki, nor Hillary herself when asked by Barbara Sawyer, other than she re-set the horrible international relationships created by George Bush.

She is a fraud.

Chip S. said...

The book's a steal if it offers advice on trading cattle futures.

If not, it's a ripoff.

Chip Ahoy said...

Did you read page 2? It takes a moment to realize you're being put on.

Comments there are heartening.

I just unloaded a full truck load to Goodwill. It was much easier than I imagined it would be. They're very helpful there. Busy place. And thankfully nearby. Just a few miles down the street.

Now I'm half done clearing out storage.

deborah said...

lol Pogo, perfect for the coming storm.

deborah said...

Chip, are you psychologically lighter?

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Um, this is usually SOP for bookstores to do whenever they expect huge lines for celebrity authors. It probably has nothing to do with Hillary at all. But then, it's nearly 2016. So, look, a squirrel!

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

No one in line for her autograph can name one thing she has accomplished.

True.

But she makes right-wingers frothing crazy and remains standing.

More and more, I'm thinking that might be the best accomplishment and qualification. ;-)