Post Mortem
“How was the event at Titcomb’s Bookshop on Cape Cod?” Admin says. “Anyone throw anything?”
“Not that found the target,” Spence says.
“Did you read from A Fistful of Collars?”
“I did.”
“First reading, right? So what did you pick?”
“The boxing scene.”
“Ah.”
Welcome close-up dude, Charlotte & Carla.
Tomorrow: Official pub date of A Fistful of Collars.
Tags: A Fistful of Collars, boxing scene, events
This entry was posted on Monday, September 10th, 2012 at 9:30 am and is filed under Chet The Dog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
9:44 am on September 10th, 2012
Tomorrow!!
Good morning all.
9:55 am on September 10th, 2012
Boxing!…I love!love!love! the boxing scene…heh!heh!snort!…It was just terrific!…snort!…And funny!…chorkel!
10:03 am on September 10th, 2012
The boxing scene?!
Tupper and Gilly made it into the book boxing up Basil and Sage! Or was it the other way around? Anyway, I CAN’T WAIT!
10:09 am on September 10th, 2012
Snigglefritz! I thought today was the big day. Gah! I think I was hoping it was today before I leave any wifi access today. Now, I have to wait. Grump.
10:41 am on September 10th, 2012
Dawson – heh heh. We were going to box them up, but it was more fun to stick our tongues out at them from the back window of the car as we waved goodby. Cuz we’re goin’ to the beach, and they’re NOT!
Hahaahahahaaa you Wrotten Kats!
11:03 am on September 10th, 2012
I will have to wait until my signed book is sent from Houston in Texas. Sob, sob, sob, whimper.
But I am reading some Tony Hellerman so it won’t be so bad. And that reminds me that SiberH should be back from his camping trip anytime now. G
11:07 am on September 10th, 2012
I will have to wait until my signed book is sent from Houston in Texas. Sob, sob, sob, whimper, sniff.
I am reading some Tony Hellerman so it won’t be so bad. That reminds me that SiberH should be back from his camping trip anytime now. Gulp…unless some wild beasties got ahold of him.
T&G: Going to the beach? I see your weather has taken a turn for the better.
11:14 am on September 10th, 2012
Oops! I already submitted that comment. How come the blog tells you that you already submitted that comment when you didn’t but not when you did? It’s all the snigglefritzen blogs fault. I swear!
11:15 am on September 10th, 2012
Siber H isn’t due back until tomorrow as I recall.
I’ve been thinking about satire. The series may be satirizing human arrogance or our belief that we’re superior to any other living creature. Where would Bernie be without Chet? (And, of course, we’re the only species to develop weapons of mass destruction. Don’t get me started.)
11:29 am on September 10th, 2012
Today is Monday.
Tomorrow is Tuesday.
Waiting for Tomorrow.
11:32 am on September 10th, 2012
I like when Chet puts down the puny efforts of humans to smell, hear or use our teeth to assist us. Heh!
11:45 am on September 10th, 2012
Rose: Tap, tap, tap. Is this thing on? Can you hear me?
11:54 am on September 10th, 2012
I stayed up past my bedtime to finish the second Hunger Games book. Very good! I also had to clear the deck for what’s coming tomorrow.
I’m leaving for Sam’s soon. I’ll be very busy with social things and routine doctor stuff for a couple of days, then I can start reading Chet.
12:52 pm on September 10th, 2012
Our only problem this morning, so far, is keeping the coffee hot. (Does this happen to anyone else?)
Riö: About Damages…I misspoke…We are watching Season 4 not 5, although Season 5 did come out this last July. It is the final one.
Belle Starr: This is a job for the Smoochers!
12:59 pm on September 10th, 2012
We are reading “I Thought You Were Dead” before FOC. Problem is, Mom is so darn busy these days that she isn’t getting time to read to us. SQ, we want our books in summertime when we basically do nothing besides sit on the porch and read!
1:13 pm on September 10th, 2012
Masquers: I have discovered the joys of iced coffee during the hot summer days. I like it so much that I may not go back to the hot stuff.
Smoochers: Send out the search party!
1:18 pm on September 10th, 2012
I wonder about the title of today’s post (after death?) and if someone did throw something but missed their target.
1:27 pm on September 10th, 2012
Dawson: We also found it a puzzling title for today’s post.
Another show to look forward to in January:
http://screenrant.com/downton-abbey-season-3-trailer/
1:35 pm on September 10th, 2012
Masquers, we are very much looking forward to the next season of Downton Abby.
Post mortem does indeed sound like SQ had a blunder at his talk. heh he
1:49 pm on September 10th, 2012
Good Afternoon All,
I hate grocery shopping. But it is now done.
It’s 60 degrees here and breezy. Yummers.
Jesse is helping me with a Christmas present to myself. He has cleared an area of “wilderness” to the rock point of our property. I will be putting down that weed suppressant fabric. At the point? A bench.
I don’t mind the leaves falling all over (that’s pretty), but the thorned whatever plants I don’t want.
Where’s Rose?
2:11 pm on September 10th, 2012
Good afternoon all. Have been busy with our go to guy, Eric. He is putting up new light fixtures (out with the brass, in with the pewter), installed the new dish washer, and gas stove. He will be here all day, puttering with a bunch of little improvements.
We also love Downton Abbey. Something to look forward to in the winter.
Dawson, what Hillerman are you reading? We read quite a few, mostly the Leaphonr/Chee series. Loved them!
2:28 pm on September 10th, 2012
I am reading The Sinister Pig. I just finished the The Wailing Wind. Wonderful.
Yoo Hoo, Ro-ose, where are you?
2:32 pm on September 10th, 2012
Rose: Don’t be surprised if a kat lands on your head soon. You know how tricky these blurring coordinates can be.
2:47 pm on September 10th, 2012
Too bad Hillermans passed away. It would be nice to have more of his books to come.
3:04 pm on September 10th, 2012
Wose: I have a thermos of hot chocolate around my neck for you.
Masquers: Saddle up! We’re on our way!
3:25 pm on September 10th, 2012
Belle Starr: Ready for take-off!
3:26 pm on September 10th, 2012
“Post Mortem” is being used metaphorically. It’s an evaluation of something after the event. Does it necessarily mean that one would change something if one could? It’s been used before–February 6, 2012, for example when Spence and Admin were discussing the Super Bowl of the day before.
3:34 pm on September 10th, 2012
Masquers and Belle Starr, let the Pack know if you need them. They are great lap dogs. They lap and lap and lap. .
Pictures! First: A Pumpkin in a Pine Tree.
3:38 pm on September 10th, 2012
And the path to the Place Zoë and I Can Go To To Get Away . .
(The undergrowth was 4 feet tall and thorns)
3:39 pm on September 10th, 2012
The view from the non-bench.
3:39 pm on September 10th, 2012
Snigglefitz.. (Can you tell we are still in a drought?)
4:08 pm on September 10th, 2012
Melanie – your partridge in a pear tree looks odd. I’d better read it again, maybe I read every other word.
4:18 pm on September 10th, 2012
Melanie: This is an official search party. We are going to meet up with the race team and could use the Pack’s help. We left Tenzing in charge of AJ before we left home. Smooch on three! One…two…three…
4:18 pm on September 10th, 2012
Melanie: Why is the pumpkin black?
By the way, Spence used the same title as today on July 10, 2010 and April 30, 2011 both after attending a reading.
4:25 pm on September 10th, 2012
Forgot: The title was also used Sept. 20, 2010 and October 4, 2010.
4:37 pm on September 10th, 2012
Barnes and Noble comes through again. They got the book out on the shelves one day early and dad already bought it.
We love Downton Abbey also. We actually had Dowton Abbey dinner parties last year with some friends through the entire seven weeks it was on, and are looking forward to doing it again next January. Shirley MaClaine will be playing Cora’s mom, and she and Maggie Smith as opposite one another should be absolutely terrific.
Yes, Tony Hillerman is sorely missed.
Hope the Rose patrol reports in soon.
Wookie
4:37 pm on September 10th, 2012
Isn’t it so cool that we get to hang out with someone as smart as Professor Bee on this here blog?
Kat has her bags packed and awaits a blur-by.
4:48 pm on September 10th, 2012
Bee, the pumpkin is not black, it is dark green. They are always green before they turn color.
Can anyone out there with badge experience tell us how they make the Plunderer badges to wear to the book signing? We will need name badges next week on the 19th. Does Staff usually do them?
5:07 pm on September 10th, 2012
Barb&Magpie: Our library date with OFA is on the 18th!
For those of you who have attended these signings: When is the best time for questions and book signing…before or after the event?
5:08 pm on September 10th, 2012
Good Grief! Just look at the time. No wonder I’m hungry.
5:16 pm on September 10th, 2012
Hey! Where’s my avatar?
5:21 pm on September 10th, 2012
Barb: Thank you. I’m laughing. I guess I’ve only seen orange pumpkins.
As far as I know, Staff always does the name badges.
5:27 pm on September 10th, 2012
The Newf Pack are on their way. Have no idea which way they are going. Gracie is navigating.
Yes, the Pumpkin in Dark Green.
More on pumpkins later. Time for supper here.
5:59 pm on September 10th, 2012
Yep, the boxing scene was awesome good writing in my book, and I’ve writ a thing or two in my life. Today was my rookie appearance at the Rescue Ink no-kill animal shelter. I started off with a two hour stint cleaning cages for the kittens area. I didn’t mind poop as much as dishing out wet cat food, but you do what you gotta do. Then I mentioned that I had a camera with me, and the office manager who signed me up thought there might be a need for appealing cat pictures for the web, so I spent a wonderful half hour in the catdominium taking closeups. A great day for sure.
6:04 pm on September 10th, 2012
Day!…Bad, bad, bad day at the busy-damned-place…snort!…Someone is coming home now. No staying late, no nuthing…yippeeee!
6:19 pm on September 10th, 2012
Rio, what happened? Eek.
Wo-se. Where are youuuuuuu?
6:29 pm on September 10th, 2012
A good days work, Terry. Nice kat pictures.
Riö; Was wondering where you were.
6:30 pm on September 10th, 2012
Bear — it is possible you ate your avatar?
Rio — Please let us know what happened at the busy place once your friend gets home. We’ll provide any comfort and moral support that we can.
Wookie
6:35 pm on September 10th, 2012
Barb, (and Maggie)
Post a pic that you want on your badge and i will make it. But hurry. I am going away for the weekend on Thursday.
I wonder what happened to Wose. I hope she is OK.
And Rio, tell us more about your day.
That pumpkin has a ways to go before it turns orange. It looks very dark now. Hope you have a lot of fall left, Melanie.
6:36 pm on September 10th, 2012
Terry, congratulations! Poop Patrol and feeding the most important time of the day. Except for purring and pats and tummies and snacks.
Love the Catdominium. Looks like a great place to play.
My other pumpkin (smaller) is still green but is off the stem. That’s because I very carefully tried to figure out which part of the stem was connected to the ground. I was wrong.
6:39 pm on September 10th, 2012
Picture from the Royals!
6:39 pm on September 10th, 2012
Terri: Awwww, those are some good looking cats needing a home. Good for you for volunteering and for taking beautiful pictures.
Melanie: I absolutely love your pumpkin. I was sure the weight of it would have broken it off so I’m glad to see you have it propped up. Your get-away place looks peaceful except that your rambling stream has turned into a mud puddle!
Smoochers: Please let us know when you locate the missing Wose, we are starting to get worried.
6:48 pm on September 10th, 2012
Wose – my beautiful, crossed blue eyes are searching for you.
Terry – thanks for taking care of my kind and for taking care of the doggies when you do that. Nice picture, too. No anti-kat comments needed from Rio 🙂
6:57 pm on September 10th, 2012
Thank you to Spence for being nice to my human sister Sam. She enjoy meeting him and talking with him.
7:09 pm on September 10th, 2012
BOONE! You are not only a Wonder you’re wonderful! Love the picture of you.
7:20 pm on September 10th, 2012
Hi Boone!
Melanie, your getting away path is lovely.
7:34 pm on September 10th, 2012
Boone the Wonder: You are one terrific looking dog and your 2 legged sister is a lucky dog to have you and to meet Spence in person.
7:40 pm on September 10th, 2012
Hi Dawson and Oley! My human sister is very lucky! Plus she gets to live on Cape Cod so that means I get to visit!
7:40 pm on September 10th, 2012
Hi Boone!
Hi everyone else from the glorious, beautiful, lobster filled beach!
Got here this afternoon and got settled in. Went up the road to the lobster pound where the delicious little buggers are a mere 3.99 a pound.
Yup – sometimes life is just a beach.
tee hee
7:44 pm on September 10th, 2012
Boone and T&G: Life on a beach is good!
7:44 pm on September 10th, 2012
T&G, thanks for praying for our Shiek. For the first time in 4 weeks, Mom’s Guy had a good Monday! Wish we were at the beach with youse. Wose’s book takes place in Northampton! We know where that is!
7:45 pm on September 10th, 2012
Boon!…Zow!…What a Krazy Photo!…heh!snort!heh!
Resting!…My friend is home and we are downstairs chillin’ out from her very stressful, angry, maddening, unhappy, confusing day…sniff!…I feel her pain, so I am squeezed in right beside her on the chair that is not big enough….grunt! ….She hasn’t said much yet. She talked to her mother, but mother doesn’t really understand exactly what is going on. She’s not up on computer language and software the way I am, so I expect I will get a story or two or three pretty soon…heh!heh!…I’m not supposed to blab about it anyways. Just know that she has not quit (yet!) and she has not been fired(yet!)…snort!….We sure wish there were more episodes of Breaking Bad, that show always seems to help put things in perspective on bad days…heh!heh!
7:48 pm on September 10th, 2012
Photography!….I have a sneaking feeling that Boon lives with someone who knows a bit about Photography!…snort!snort!…How utterly kool is that?…heh!…And he lives on Cape Cod. Some guys get all the luck…wuffle!
7:56 pm on September 10th, 2012
Melanie!…That green pumpkin is amazing…heh!snort!heh!….Look! I think I see Linus in the pine tree…chorkel!
8:01 pm on September 10th, 2012
Golinka!…On Vacation!….Woooooooo!…Buying and eating lobster and making friends with butterflies…heh!…My friend says get some good sharp photos of the Monarch and she will try to reproduce them using bits of paper. As if!…snort!
8:12 pm on September 10th, 2012
Riö, please tell your friend to tuck herself under the quilt.
Maybe that’s where Ruth is ? ?
I’m headed to bed.
TTFN
8:19 pm on September 10th, 2012
Boone, what great photos!
Rio, hope your friend can chill and relax a bit tonight. You will help her we are sure.
T & G, lobster for $3.99 per pound? Unheard of!
We are going to go have some dinner and relax a bit before bed. Night all.
8:26 pm on September 10th, 2012
Ruth!….Who the hell is Ruth?…sniff!…I’m missing my Rose. Where is she anyways?…wuffle!
8:29 pm on September 10th, 2012
SiberH!…He will be back tomorrow from his awesome vacation I do believe….heh!…Then we can get back to Baseball-Speak…grunt!….Rockies play tonight in a few minutes. WE here still have not had supper! Whats up with that? …snort!…Her mother is trying to “throw” something together…..gurgle!
8:53 pm on September 10th, 2012
We have been in and out of the blog so much lately we have missed quite a few things. But we are puzzled about the picture of the King Charles Spaniel that is under the Upload Files directions. Can someone tell us what that is all about
9:03 pm on September 10th, 2012
Beautiful Pumpkin, Butterflys and Boone
Many are off on a Secret Mission.
Me? I stay to keep the Welcome Home fires burning.
Good NIght my friends – Bear
9:05 pm on September 10th, 2012
Gah! Wookie is right. I ate my avatar!
9:17 pm on September 10th, 2012
Boone: I really like your picture on the beach.
9:23 pm on September 10th, 2012
BSD: Did you get in charge of your person, too. Someone has to keep a close eye on them.
Rio: I don’t know I can banter much tonight—access to this here blog is sluggish—but I hope you can take good care of your friend tonight.
9:23 pm on September 10th, 2012
Molly’s Mom is here! She went out to dinner with friends but now she’s back. Tomorrow morning I get my soft boiled egg. It’s about time I say.
9:29 pm on September 10th, 2012
T&G: I don’t have a Spaniel in that spot.
Wookie: Downton Abbey parties – what fun! This next season will be great with the two “mothers-in-laws”.
9:41 pm on September 10th, 2012
Dowton Abbey!…Parties!…snort!….I’d like to know more about these parties and if I were ever invited would I have to come in a costume…sniff!…There is the big food debate. More food with costume than without has been proven….grunt!
9:44 pm on September 10th, 2012
Walked!…Did our walk – boy is it hot outside…grumble!…Now we are ready to watch the Rockies kick some Giants Butt!….Woooooooo!…Beau, he is lying in front of the fan upstairs. Okay by me!me!me!…heh!
9:49 pm on September 10th, 2012
Rebecca!…My friend is okay…heh!…We read another chapter of Fistfull Of Collars and it cheered her right up…heh!heh!…She has shaken off the whole “importance” of the bizarre world of that job…sniff!…If it does not work out, she will try to do something she really loves to do – which is what? …sniff!…Still to be determined…heh!…I say we could spend a whole year just dropping by Plunderers homes unexpected and staying for a few weeks at time till they git sick and tired of me and then we move onto the next address we have on file…chorkel!… That’s my go-to plan…snuffle!
9:57 pm on September 10th, 2012
Rio: I don’t think they will let you and Beau across the border. Heh. I could come and stay with youse guys for a couple weeks to make up for that but only if your friend is doing the cooking.
10:02 pm on September 10th, 2012
Dawson!…Yeah, you do not want to be risking yer life eating her mother’s cooking..sniff!…My friend promises to do it all if and when you come to visit. She would make Greatgrandma’s Case Noodle for you!…wheeze!… But the rule around here is you have to share half of each and every meal with me!me!me!…snort!…Beau gets his later. A lot later.
10:39 pm on September 10th, 2012
Barb!….Bless her soul, sent me and my friend a wonderful interview by Vince Gilligan, writer and creator of Breaking Bad…snort!snort!….We read each and every word of the interview Barb! We don’t normally go out to the AMC website for fear of spoilers. This interview did not have any spoilers for the final season in it. Thank dawg!….grunt!…. Here is a quote that we particularly like from Vince because, well, it also reminds us of one of The Charming Mr. Abrahams books…heh!heh!…The interviewer was lamenting the fact that the show is ending too early…..sniff!
“I hate the thought of the show peaking in quality and then going into some sort of long, slow, inexorable slide into mediocrity. I would rather risk going out a little too soon than going out a moment too late. Having said that, I think we’ve got the right number of episodes at 62 episodes of TV. And I just couldn’t feel any luckier than I feel having had the opportunity to do the show and have it work out better than I ever saw it in my wildest dreams.”
10:44 pm on September 10th, 2012
Oops!…I meant to say Maskers in place of Barb….heh!…Sorry
BarbMaskers!…yeesh!…Thanks for the interview you Jazz Machine, you!…heh!11:04 pm on September 10th, 2012
We went for our last walk of the night. The sky was beautiful and we could hear the swish of the waves on the beach.
What a great first day of the beach. Yaaaawwwnnn…
Oh excuse us – the salt air makes us soooo sleepy. G’night everyone.
11:09 pm on September 10th, 2012
Sept.11th!….Finally the day will be upon all youse guys who do not already have a copy of A Fistfull Of Collars….snort!….I bet some of you will read it in one sitting and finish it way before me and my friend. I’m telling you we are reading every single word and sentence, savoring the writing, the story and the feelings. My friend needs this book right now. She does not need to fly through it. She needs to relax and enjoy every word our author has written….snuff!… I predict you will all LOVE it because it is the BEST YET! If that is even possible. The very best yet!….Heh!…And I’m not just saying that because I am reading an autographed and paw-printed copy….chuffle! ((twirling!))… We here can only imagine what would happen if The Charming Mr. Abrahams and the Wiley Mr. Vince Gilligan ever got together and created characters for a story set in the desert….whoa! ….It would be mind-blowing and Academy Award winning for sure. …chuffle!….Enjoy the Story!….Woooooooo!
11:18 pm on September 10th, 2012
We are wondering if we are being shunned or are just boring.
Lobster pound? I came from a dog pound but so far I have not been on the menu.
11:21 pm on September 10th, 2012
Wow!…Jim Tracy just got thrown out of the game…gulp!…He waa completely right of course, but the umpire did not see it that way..grumble!spit!cough!….Jim Tracy does not argue heatedly over NUTHING!….sniff!…BAH!
11:40 pm on September 10th, 2012
Why Miz Macy – ain’t no one gonna say that mah little ole Sugarplum is boring. And trust me gal, Ah would pick you over one of them there big red crawdads any ole day.
12:43 am on September 11th, 2012
Macy, you are so funny! You make me laugh more than anyone! Lobster pound indeed, heh heh heh…
Right now my nose is bent out of shape because mom and dad have locked Gus and me out of Our bedroom. Something about making Miss Daisy feel safe.
Sulking here!
6:35 am on September 11th, 2012
my human just woke me up-it is still dark- is this woman crazy? Thank you all for you nice comments on my beach picture. I just do the posing. It was taken on my favorite beach where the sharks don’t swim. T&G -I am not allowed to eat lobster, which I do not believe is fair.
The news man just said some man tried to smuggle a primate on to a plane in his underpants. Do you think the monkey was wearing underpants or the man was hiding the mrimate in is underpants? Either way it should make Rio laugh (shorty snort).
Mom likes to read youse posts cause youse make her laugh . Thanks for letting us troll around. Have a great day and remember you need to take a break from reading AFOC to take your friends from the nation within the nation for walks or at least out to…you know.
7:08 am on September 11th, 2012
Barb, we believe you asked earlier. The bookstore will dictate the order of signings and questions. Where we get to see SQ, he comes out and does a reading, answers questions and then does individual signings. That is when pictures can be taken with him. Remember, you can bring his previous books with you to be signed and pawtographed too. The store may have a limit on how many books you can have signed at one time. Our bookstore also assigns numbers for the signing so there is no push and shove to get up to the table.
Staff made our badge. We had it lamiated and wear it attached to a lanyard around our neck.
We get to see SQ Friday evening and Dad is even going!!
7:09 am on September 11th, 2012
And, good morning, all! Happy Publishing Day, SQ!!!