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Robbye is officially gone from Llewellyn. I wrote a note this morning to our new publicity person, Lisa, to introduce myself. Haven't heard back yet but I'm sure she's got a lot going on. I'm not sure if she will be handling VRT permanently or just until we're assigned to someone new. I'm also not really sure where things stand with VRT publicity -- Robbye had a lot of leads she had been pursuing (like getting us listed in catalogs & such) and I don't know if more followup needs to be done or what. So I'm looking forward to hearing back from Lisa.

In other news, yesterday was a great day. First, I did my radio show in the morning. It was a fun show if I do say so myself! I had tailored almost the whole show to a friend who had promised to listen online. Normally I would play mostly electronic and world music, but I played a bunch of rock that I thought she would like. Except she overslept and missed the entire thing except the last song! (Which was Black Box Recorder in case you were curious.) Argh! Well, at least she liked that one song, and I did have fun. She said next week she would call when she started listening.

I only got one call during the show, and it was one of those lame "can you tell me the name of a song that was played yesterday at 2:30 in the afternoon?" calls. I actually tried to find out for her, but they had collected the week's flowsheets late the night before, so I couldn't look it up. Then she started telling me the lyrics and asking me if I recognized the song! I suggested she call back at the same time next week, so she'd get the same DJ, and ask them what song they had played. Luckily I had a long song playing or I wouldn't have had time to be so accommodating.

Then after the radio, I went to the mail center, where my new bubble machine for the car had arrived! (I know I should be writing about this on the car site, not here, but whatever.) The bubble machine I had brought to the parade was a big disappointment. So I asked around and got a professional machine, marketed to club DJs. Personally, I would be annoyed if a club had one of these bubble machines running because it churns out thousands of bubbles, and you would end up all sticky from the bubble soap. But that's just me!

Anyway the new bubble machine arrived. I had been thinking about making a cover for it shaped like a fish, so the bubbles would come out of the fishes mouth. But as soon as I got it, I knew that wouldn't work. The shape was wrong -- too square, not long enough -- and the back has a big air intake that can't be covered.

Luckily, a few days ago I had received a big order of blue, teal and silver beads. I haven't started putting the beads on the car yet, so I decided to start with the bubble machine. AMC was showing Audrey Hepburn movies so I parked my butt in front of the TV and watched Breakfast at Tiffany's and Sabrina while I worked. What a great way to spend the afternoon! It's slow going: I spent 5 hours gluing and got about half the bubble machine covered. But it looks pretty good if I do say so myself!

Interesting trivia of the day: The Dimitri from Paris song "Un Very Stylish Fille" is built around a line of dialogue, a woman saying "I am a very stylish girl," which is sampled from Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's from the scene where George Peppard breaks it off with Patricia Neal. First he says, "you're a very stylish girl, can't we do this stylishly?" and then she says "I am a very stylish girl" and offers him money. That was so cool to recognize the line from the song! I must have seen that movie ten times but I never caught that line before.