Being Tom Robbins.

Nathan and I attended a reading at Elliot Bay Bookstore, a super-cool place, with an extremely old school vibe and groovy cafe in the basement. Here we watched Tom Robbins read excerpts from his last book of short stories and essays. It didn't seem to be his best work. Fortunately he made up for it in the Q&A session, in which his answers were very funny and informative. He was especially great while telling a story about how he quit his job at the Seattle newspaper to write novels full-time, all because a red-bearded wino laughed at him while he was wearing a suit (apparently he's a Seattle local, who knew?). Apparently he'd given the following advice to a guy in the audience sometime in the early 70s: Find your own red-bearded man.