MORE ODDS & ENDS

I've calculated that on our forthcoming 17-day book promo trip to North America, which begins with my wife & I leaving home at dawn on August 29 - a fortnight today - we're each going to be flying over 17,000 miles. (Or an average of over 1,000 a day.) A shocking carbon footprint, of course; our punishment will be all that queuing in airports to be security-checked. I haven't tried to work out any figures on how many hours that'll be.

Last Saturday was the 10th anniversary of the publication of my book The Elvis Atlas: A Journey Through Elvis Presley's America (New York: Henry Holt Reference Division), co-authored with one Roger Osborne, who lives a few villages away on the road to Scarborough. A book that got thrown away.



New issue of Judas! arrived this morning. Long review of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, and interesting other stuff. I'm sorry it's going into voluntary vanishment after one more (double) issue in December. (There's more on Judas! in the Encyclopedia entry on its editor, Andrew Muir, whose 48th birthday it is tomorrow.)

Still waiting for August to wake up and remember it's meant to be the summer.