If you somehow can't make it tonight's meeting of the Mets History Miniature Bobblehead Year at Citi Field committee…I mean to seeing Jason and me at Varsity Letters (for real), here a few other things you can be doing with your Thursday evening.
• You can listen, if you haven't yet, to NY Baseball Digest's Mike Silva and I discuss Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Mets here. The freewheeling hour of book talk, Mets talk, media talk and, well, me talk flies by. You can get a shorter but still substantive spin from this Q&A with Gelf Magazine.
• You can read the latest in the whirlwind of FAFIF: AIPHOTNYM reviews, each of them wonderfully considered and immensely appreciated: Mets2Moon at The Ballclub; Coop at My Summer Family; Long Island Mets Fan at 24 Hours From Suicide; and, as a movie pitch I know I'd snap up, Jon at the grandsite of 'em all, Mets By The Numbers. Thanks to everybody who has weighed in on behalf of this book via blog, e-mail, message board and subway whisper campaign. I can express what it means to me, but you still couldn't guess how much it does.
• You can make yourself hungry by perusing the Citi Field offerings as inspected by NYC Food Guy. I've already done so, and there's mouth water everywhere. Don't tell my gastroenterologist. Or my accountant.
• You can by all means order your copy of FAFIF, or even a copy for somebody else, at Amazon or Barnes & Noble, and then you can join the ongoing discussion at Facebook.
• You can wait for the season to start. But you were going to do that anyway.
• Or you could make a late dash for Varsity Letters at the Happy Ending Lounge. We'd love to see you there, tonight at 8:00.
“there's mouth water everywhere” Perhaps the oddest, most disgusting thing I've heard all day; yet strangely amusing.