MILK EGGS VODKA [By Bill Keaggy]

Hey St. Louis and the rest of the Midwest — I’ll be interviewed on KMOX Radio (AM 1120) tomorrow morning, 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.

Update: Here’s the podcast: Debbie Monterrey and Dan Gray speak with St. Louis’ Bill Keaggy, who compiled a book of abandoned grocery lists!

I was on vacation when this got posted, but the awesome mental_floss magazine is giving away a copy of my book Milk Eggs Vodka as part of the Harry Potter madness. It’s probably too late to enter now, but hey, they called the book “hilarious,” so I’m happy.

The Akron Beacon-Journal says this about Milk Eggs Vodka:

Some of the humor comes from the juxtaposition of commonplace items with the random, like the list by someone who needed Pepsi and “smelly stuff.” Others are funny because they’re vague… the lists alone, and Keaggy’s commentary, are reason enough to read this book.

I’m only linking to this Lenore Skenazy column because I wanted to be able to refer to myself as an “oddball/genius” again. The column originally appeared in Advertising Age but now is out on the wire courtesy of the New York Sun.

…John! John typed in “Oh the mundanity,” hit “Publish” and quickly won my potentially everlasting admiration.

St. Louis’ premier restaurant and food tab, Sauce Magazine, published a great review of Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found in the July 2007 issue. The book and I even got a big blurb of the cover! Excellent.

Absolutely addictive… I challenge you to pick up the book and not read it straight through, from intro to index. You’ll never look at grocery lists the same way again.

Ha! The first sighting of my book on eBay!

My sister sent me a weird recipe — it actually uses the ingredients milk, eggs and vodka! Check it out: White Russian Cupcakes with Kahlua Whipped Cream Frosting. It comes from a recipe book called Cupcakes: From the Cake Mix Doctor. Thanks, Kathy!