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I would SO slap that baby

Thank you, Annette, for sending me this last night.

And in an interesting fluke of timing, right at that same moment my husband was watching The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and they were doing a piece on how Jack Kerouac’s On the Road still sells over 100,000 copies a year. A YEAR. And my husband shouted from the other room, “That’s what you need to do–write On the Road!”

Yeah, I used to think he was such a nice guy, too.

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Posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 5:03 am under Writing . Subscribe to responses: RSS 2.0 Comment Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

9 Responses to “I would SO slap that baby”

  1. Sara Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 5:59 am

    Wasn’t there a song, too? On the road again…I can’t wait to get on the road again… :)

    That video was bitterly funny, in the best way.

  2. Heather Harper Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 7:39 am

    I’m stealing this and posting it. Way too funny. (Did I ever tell you I named my dog after him? Beagles are such lushes.)

  3. Lady T Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 8:12 am

    Stewie rules,bigtime!:) So evil and definately slapworthy:D

  4. Laura Fitzgerald Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 9:15 am

    Love that video!

  5. Deborah Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 10:28 am

    Video was funny! The NEW YORKER had done a similar piece about ON THE ROAD inspiring me to commit to ’someday soon’ re-reading it.

  6. annette Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 11:21 am

    slappin’ babies, feeding martinis to beagles–both i believe are illegal. someone’s going to bust this blog.

  7. robin Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    Glad you all like it. But we can admit the pain of it, right?

  8. Christen Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 1:13 pm

    I can’t hear it at work and this makes me sad. I love Family Guy. I’ll have to check this out when I get home!

  9. Heather Harper Says:
    September 8th, 2007 at 3:13 pm

    He does get slapped!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COQQjQJ4m54