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Now available for preorder:
The San Francisco Panorama.
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- - - - June 25, 2003 Massive technological advancements have been made regarding Jeff Johnson's best-seller, Ignore the Spread. He now accepts Pay Pal.
If you log onto Pay Pal and send a payment of $5 + $1 (shipping) to: Fittedsweats@hotmail.com you will receive one of the few remaining copies of IGNORE THE SPREAD, (act fast, they're almost gone) along with a new as-yet-unpublished one-sheet report on the 2003 NFL Season. No one will have this but you! It will never be published on the Internet. - - - - January 3, 2003 Okay, here's the real deal. Finally. Ignore the Spread: Four Years of Horrid NFL Picks is being printed next week. I have the mailing/ordering address thing squared away. I apologize for the delay. Send $5 + $1 (p&h) = $6 in the form of check or money order to: Jeff Johnson
We will get this important material to you as fast as we can. Details on NYC reading soon. Send me your ideas, proposals for out-of-town events, house parties, etc. to: FittedSweats@hotmail.com See previous update below for info on contents of book. - - - - I'd like to announce that I'm doing a real book. A real small book. I know that there will be between 1 and 977 of them printed, but at this time the exact number is not known. The book will be handmade by me and a couple of designer fellows I know. The book will not be snazzy. It will include staples. Despite those little issues, the book will be filled with a lot of love. It will be hand-numbered and signed. The book will take the best (or worst, since I hope the final edit includes only predictions I got wrong) predictions of the four seasons of the NFL Picks, and be presented in the "Greatest Hits" tradition. There will also be a secret chapter included. The secret chapter is about something secret. The book is going to be called Wide Right: Four Years of Horrid NFL Picks by Jeff Johnson. There will be one reading for it in NYC in January. The book will not be ready until mid-January. The book marks the first time someone has blatantly taken their collection of McSweeney's internet scribblings, souped it up, and sold it him/herself. It may very well be the last time. I do not know. All I know right now is that it is a brilliant idea for two (or more) reasons:
The book will hopefully be for sale at the McSweeney's store in Brooklyn. I'm going to do it in the way many old-fashioned crackpot pamphleteers, religious zealots and racist scumbags have spread their message since the dawn of time.
The book is going to be cheap. Five dollars, plus one dollar postage and handling. That's really not a huge sum of money, especially if you've loved this column for four years. It's always been free. And it will continue to be free, and since most of you read it at work, using your employers' computers and electricity, I consider that double-free. So really, you've been profiting. Not monetarily, but just karma-wise. I am going to work day and night so that you have this book in time for the Super Bowl. Please email FittedSweats@hotmail.com if you are interested. In the weeks to come, more concrete details will be given about Wide Right. Fitted Sweats, by the way, is the name of my new publishing enterprise and we aim to bring you many treats in 2003. Your amigo, Jeff Johnson
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