MILK EGGS VODKA [By Bill Keaggy]

Here’s a fun article by Mackenzie Dawson in today’s New York Post:

Book inscriptions, grocery lists, Post-it notes – one man’s trash is truly another man’s treasure.

Particularly if that man’s trash is really weird.

For example, a dated photo that features an older woman standing proudly next to a Christmas tree – which is topped with an enormous, jeweled armadillo.

Or a shopping list that includes “Kid hair de-tangler, ibuprofen, Fibre-all, Sensodyne, Prozac.”

Or a note that says “BIND ME, please! And bring COOKIES!”

It begs the question: What happens if the person brings the wrong kind of cookies – will binding not occur? (Or will they, perhaps, be bound as punishment?) When will the cookies be eaten: before, after or during?

It’s a lot for a complete stranger to ponder.

Bill Keaggy, the founder of Grocerylists.org, was leaving a grocery store one day when a sort of “silly serendipity” struck: he found a grocery list on a yellow Post-it note. The list itself was nothing special, but much like Raviv, Keaggy found himself fixating on the person it belonged to.

Several hundred of the best lists appear in my book, “Milk Eggs Vodka.”

I did a Five Questions With in the Scranton, Pennsylvania paper (but oof — they got the URL wrong! Hope that gets fixed soon). Anyway, thanks Ron!

In his weekly feature, copy editor Ron Davis poses five questions to Bill Keaggy, author of “Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found,” based on the Web site www.grocery-lists.org www.grocerylists.org — which is, basically, a collection of grocery lists.

Found this video on YouTube: Some goofballs doing shots of egg, milk and vodka, which seem to go down about as smoothly as my book!

And btw, “Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found” is now searchable through Amazon’s “Search Inside” feature.

Yay! A quick mention in the October design annual issue of HOW Magazine: “Laugh until you cry with this hilarious collection of lost-and-found grocery lists.”

Been a bit busy and haven’t blogged the blog mentions, so let’s do another gang roundup:

1. Sweatervestboy calls the intro story, “Amazing.”
2. Dana Graves at The Collecting Gene says, “I don’t know why THIS collection is so interesting…”
3. Michelle says, “fabulous, very funny“
4. Whippleworld says, “This is brilliant“
5. One Girl Revolution says, “This one is FUNNY!“
6. Sarah Cool says, “I was laughing so hard that I was kind of, well, really embarassing myself. It was soooooooooo funny!!!!!”
7. dreams of cottages says, “i am loving the book milk eggs vodka. i found it as i was browsing through our new non-fiction and was instantly captivated.”