‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ recap
A quick rundown of the JKL experience…
Milk Eggs Vodka — the book
Watch Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, July 1
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So, what’ve you been up to?
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The Curators
Coming soon to theaters? Maybe not, but it’s double awesome nonetheless.
An amazing new book about grocery lists
So there used to be, like, no fun or interesting books about grocery stores and grocery store… stuff. Then Julian Montague released his amazing and comprehensive “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification” in 2006. A marvelous achievement! Have you seen it? And in 2007 I submitted my own [...]
Thank you!
I just wanted to let everyone who bought my book this year know that I donated a percentage of the royalties to a couple great causes: The St. Louis Area Foodbank (feeding struggling single-parent families, the elderly and the working poor) Mentor St. Louis (a school-based youth and literacy organization) Thank you! I hope everyone [...]
Just wondering…
Hey, have I mentioned recently that I wrote a totally awesome book about found grocery lists? Well, I did. “Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found” has been called hilarious, wonderful, a delight, amusing, addictive and genius. See for yourself: “The Grocery List Collection is compulsive reading.” -The New York Times “laugh-out-loud pleasure” -BookPage [...]
Me on KMOX again!
Hey St. Louis and the rest of the Midwest — I’ll be interviewed on KMOX Radio (AM 1120) today, July 27, around 8:45 a.m. I’ll be on with Debbie Monterrey and Dan Grey on the Total Information AM Show, talking about Milk Eggs Vodka, of course.
More “Milk Eggs Vodka” book events
On the radio: I’ll be on the radio here in St. Louis Wednesday, June 13 around 10:30 p.m. Central time talking with the two Johns on KMOX 1120. Listen in as I talk and joke about my “Milk Eggs Vodka” book, published by HOW Books. In real life: If you can’t hear me on the [...]
Look! Some folks won a free copy of “Milk Eggs Vodka!”
A hearty and heartfelt congratulations to Laura (who needs bleach and eggs) and Amber (who shops for Cosmo, chocolate donuts and pads, but only “once a month”). Laura and Amber were the winners of the “Milk Eggs Vodka” book giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest (I’ll probably do another soon!). Take a look [...]
Hello Tampa!
Jeff Houck of the Tampa Tribune wrote a great article about me and my new grocery lists book. Check it out: Making A List, Checking It Twice. Awesome. You can see the actual front page of the food section here at my Milk Eggs Vodka blog.
My book is out! Now!
Today is the day! “Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost & Found” is now available. I made a new site to promote it so I’m going to be more active over there for a month or so. Please check out www.milkeggsvodka.com and the new blog I set up to document the adventure: www.milkeggsvodka.com/blog. “Milk Eggs [...]
Presenting milkeggsvodka.com!
Hey everyone, I made a little web site to help promote the release of my new book, Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost & Found. The book is basically the analog version of this site, featuring hundreds of hilarious discarded grocery lists (along with my even more hilarious commentary). Click here for more info. Anyway, [...]
And ye shall know us by the lists we make
“A crop of Web sites allows people to create and share lists on everything from a baby’s nap schedule to an action-figure collection. Following are five sites that aim to help people get organized.” This article also mentions a couple list-related books that are in the works, including mine!
MAKING LISTS
The Kansas City Star writes about lists, and mentions my upcoming book: “A range of companies, including Amazon.com, book publishers, stationery makers and Internet sites, are pushing new products aimed at the growing appetite for list-making. In the next year publishing houses will roll out at least eight books of lists. One will feature images [...]
100 more lists, 1 new book
To celebrate the fact our awesome new book based on this site, MILK EGGS VODKA: Grocery Lists Lost and Found, is available for presale — we added another 100 lists. One of them, #1301, is a gem. Note the item about 2/3 of the way down. Yes, it says “coochie wash.” It was found in [...]
Number 1 among the plethora of lists?
“Want to put together an insider’s rating for refrigerator magnets? It’s been done. Hope to assemble the all-time most intriguing items that ever appeared on a grocery list? That’s been done, too. In fact, it’s a 240-page book. ‘Milk Eggs Vodka,’ by Bill Keaggy will be published by HOW Books in a few months, based [...]
The Way We List Now
Hey, today’s Wall Street Journal has a great article about lists and mentions my upcoming book in the sidebar: “After finding a discarded grocery list outside a supermarket 10 years ago, St. Louis-based photographer Bill Keaggy began a collection, and he now has more than 1,000. His book is divided into chapters, like lists that [...]
Calling all Vermonters and Idahoans!
Vermont! Idaho! Where are you? I just finished my book about this grocery list collection but there’s something missing: A list from Vermont and a list from Idaho. Chapter 19 is supposed to include a list from all 50 U.S. states and I have 48 of them (plus D.C.) — but I still need these [...]
Request for submissions: Be part of my book
OK folks, I’m really close. I still need grocery lists from the following U.S. states: Idaho, Oklahoma, Vermont | Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Wyoming. Just 14 13 11 8 7 6 4 3 more! I now have New Mexico then realized I’d prefer to use my [...]
