I Love Barnes And Noble

[TrueFaith77]

Argh. The B&N employees are fascists. Wouldn't even let me pull out my "memorabilia" as they called it... Then, a German couple in front of me mentioned they live in Hamburg, but that they didn't bother going to see Mick Fleetwood's Blues Band when it played there, but demanded a supposedly outlawed posed picture with the man... during which time he signed my CD cover, didn't even look at me, and all I could get out before being forced out of the space was: "I'm honored." (And, really, I'm not usually at a loss for words with celebs.)

I'm not mad at Mick. He doesn't know who cares about his work. I'm disappointed in myself. I'm kicking myself for not going about this more creatively... I should have offered to buy ten copies of the CD in exchange for my MIck Fleetwood solo albums being signed.

Mick was nice to everybody. Doing his job. He let the B&N staff would do the dirty work. Which it did for everybody but the Germans.

Also, I met a very nice lady who was there to get the cd cover signed for her son who is in school so couldn't be there. She was very very nice and, though she didn't know it, helped deflate some of my anxiety (which unfortunately spiked amidst the confusion with the Germans and the B&N fascists). I suspect the son is a Ledgie based on what she said. So, if you're out there: "Hi, John!"

Mick IS tall, of course. He's like something from Santa's Village. He wore a crazy coat of many colors (vertical stripes). It was ugly as sin, but rock stars can pull anything off.