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You. Yeah, you. You're sitting in class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, drawing doodles of Ron Zook on the water skis, and you're bored. You obviously aren't like us, because, you know, you're actually in class. You can change that, though. In about an hour and a half, we're going to be at your book store.
Seriously, we're gonna be at the Illini Union Bookstore.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
04:00 PM
ILLINI UNION BOOKSTORE/University of Illinois
809 S Wright Street Champaign, IL 61820
It's like when fellow alums Dave Eggers, Roger Simon or Roger Ebert come to read, except so, so much worse.
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Since it's a college book store, one can only assume the cost to buy the book just went up 500% over retail?
I'll just get the Cliff's notes
/channeling inner college student
Yeah, but what is happening for the after-party in Champaign? Are they going down to the dump to shoot rats?
Afterwards, Will will be on the quad with an acoustic guitar and a pocketful of memories in the hopes of tricking some dumb broad into thinking he's deep.
I wouldn't be expecting Roger Ebert to be doing any readings at the bookstore in the near future.
Will Bill Murray be there?
Are there any good burrito places nearby?
@Lady Andrea: Keg-in-a-field.
@DumpsterDining: You can read it and then sell it back for pennies on the dollar - until the second edition is published
Will there be a lion riding a horse? No? Not interested.
A: A heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Q: What will it take to reduce the sausage-quotient at the reading to under 96%?
The after party is sitting around someone's old station wagon listening to the truckers on the CB.
Oh yeah, and drinking...
Will you be streaking through the quad past the gymnasium after the party?
Why would you compare yourself to a blowhard fat film critic with no larynx?
It's just like when Roger Ebert comes back for a book reading, except the catering costs 95% less.
@Matt_T: Let's just hope there isn't a Kent State situation tonight.
Do you know how hard it is having emo bangs at a Midwestern college?
@Gourmet Spud: A: One hundred years of solitude.
Q: What can the attendees expect from their collective sex lives?
@heyzeus:
I'll just pretend I read it and BS the essay.
/also channeling inner college student
Will the urban dance team be there, or the local college tribute band 'Fears for Tears'?
Second floor of the Illini Union Bookstore - cleanest, most luxurious shitter on campus, if not the universe.
A sugary slice of Garcia's awaits. Haven't been back since graduation in '93 and no plans to return.
@Civil Negligence: any band showing up to one of these would likely be called "Fear of Women"
Lana: How we doing?
Joel: Looks like University of Illinois!
It's been awhile since I've been to my old university's bookstore. Tell me, have there been any significant advances in highlighter technology?
Hey, will you buy me an Eric Gordon jersey from the bookstore? Ohh....wait....
@Gourmet Spud: Digger Phelps can answer that for you.
Didn't anyone tell Will that you can't go home again?
@Seabass: You could still get one, I'm sure.
There may be burn marks and brown streaks, but...
Michael David Smith will also report on the Daily Illini's report.
I heard the party's gonna take place at a run down house off campus, everyone pays $10 to get in except the hot underclassmen, and he's gonna kick everyone out after an hour unless you know one of the older commenters.
Kevin Hart will be there on a recruiting visit.
@Gourmet Spud: I wouldn't count on Beth showing up.
@LouVuittonDon: that's...good to know.
@LouVuittonDon:
C'mon, man! Now everyone's going to be using it!
Will there be free pizza? I have a very rigid no-campus-events-unless-there's-free-pizza policy.
Will is proof that the University of Illinois' journalism program prepares you for a successful career making dick jokes.
Will most of the evening be spent discussing which animated tv shows are underappreciated?
@Stev D: There is no discussion- its Spongbob Squarepants
Will there be a bike rack where undergrads can chain their Razor scooters?
Can you pull a miracle and make that basketball team more exciting while you are there?
You're sitting in class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, drawing doodles of Ron Zook on the water skis...
It's not that big of a deal, something like 8 percent of kids do it.
How many times will you breach the subject of young Eric Gordon?
@Gourmet Spud: Wait...What is the what?
/Struggling to make "You Shall Know Our Velocity" joke, and choosing to go to class instead.
Dibs on the pale midwestern chick wearing her hair in a poofy scrunchy and white-washed jeans. Yeah, all 4,502 of em.
@Marth:@Dieter: How we are Hungry
At least Illinois alumni can read...
Just don't accept any rides from Jamar Smith while you're there.
@Al_Czerviks_Ride: You fool! It's Eek! The Cat. Hands down.
@LouVuittonDon: The basement bathroom in the English building may not be the most glorious, but I used to jerk off in there during late night study sessions...I guess this would be a cool story if I were having sex with women and not myself.
@Raskolnikov: "Has the Daily Illini lost its focus as a college newspaper now that famed Internet star and former Daily Illini deity Will Leitch is reading at the college bookstore?"
@The Diesel: There aren't 4,502 girls at the University of Illinois.
Whatever you do Will, your next book should not be about the Ellen James Society. It won't end well.
Who is Roger Simon?
You think the Gawker media empire would shell out for a better rental car than the turquoise Chevette.