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My Plan For Being an Extremely Successful and Famous Author: Day One
Woo! Tomorrow I officially become a legitimate author. St. Martin’s Press is publishing my law school memoir, LAWYER BOY. Here’s what I have planned for the day:
6:00 AM to 11:00 AM: Appear on several network mornings shows (Good Morning America, The Today Show, etc…). These shows haven’t actually expressed any interest in having me as a guest, but let’s just say, tonight, when I fall asleep, I plan on leaving my cell ringer on.
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM: Foie gras medallions and with the mayor.
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM: Oprah taping. (Attending as an audience member, but planning to throw copies of my book on stage.)
4:00 PM to 10:00 PM: Field apologetic/remorseful phone calls for every girl who’s ever rejected me.
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The Larger, Louder Half of the Performing Team
I’ve been a fan of Penn & Teller my whole life. I’ve seen their show three or four times, and I truly believe that they perform the smartest, most deceptive/hardest to figure out magic out there.
You might also know Penn & Teller from their Emmy-nominated TV show Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t
Anyways…Penn, the larger, louder half of the performing team had this to say about my book:
"Rick Lax is really funny and uses his background in magic to see through the bullshit and hypocrisy that make up the law school experience. I'm really glad he's getting the law degree so he has a job other than magic—we don't need this kind of competition."
IN OTHER NEWS. My Bar Exam review materials are supposed to come in the mail today or tomorrow.
I don’t know how big the books are/how many pages they have…but I do know that the tracking e-mail says that the package is THIRTY-FIVE POUNDS.
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Penn was also host of NBC's
Submitted by Elliott (not verified) on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 16:37.
Penn was also host of NBC's IDENTITY, a contestant on ABC's DANCING WITH THE STARS, and purveyor of a fascinating video podcast (http://www.pennradio.com/) (also, as delightfully self-indulgent as he is entertaining!).
No one knows BULLSHIT, or calls people out on it, better than Penn, so getting praised as NON-bullshit by him is QUITE an honor. Congrats, Counselor Lax, very impressive blurb!
I"m pretty sure they're
Submitted by Ricky (not verified) on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 19:30.
I"m pretty sure they're bringing IDENTITY back. Good show. YOu watch?
I heard it was SEXY. In any
Submitted by Rachel (not verified) on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 22:19.
I heard it was SEXY.
In any case, congrats, Counselor Lax. A well-deserved blurb.
You heard what was sexy?
Submitted by Rick Lax on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 19:33.
You heard what was sexy? I'm so confused...
I heard that it was sexy
Submitted by Ryan (not verified) on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 22:04.
I heard that it was sexy too!
Counselor Lax, read the post
Submitted by Rachel (not verified) on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 03:13.
Counselor Lax, read the post directly before mine and substitute the capitalized words. Then substitute the voice in your head for Justin Timberlake's.
Ah, yes, everythign is
Submitted by Rick Lax on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 05:05.
Ah, yes, everythign is better in a timberlake voice.
Publishers Weekly Review
This is the first official Lawyer Boy review. Hopefully it will set the tone for the rest. Hmm…maybe I shouldn't put the cart before the horse….let me try again: hopefully there will be other reviews, and hopefully they will be similar.
Here goes:
First-time author Lax delivers an entertaining and sometimes zany look at the first year of law school. Although he dreams of being a professional magician, Lax realizes after college that being a lawyer—like his father and most of his relatives (he provides a family tree showing the remarkable number of lawyers who are relatives)—is inevitable. After being accepted into the DePaul School of Law in Chicago, where passenger trains "screamed past the classroom every ten minutes," he finds that the world of torts and criminal law is both like and unlike everything he had imagined. The workload is still brutal—as a professor tells him, "For the next year, the American legal system will be your girlfriend." But Lax's discoveries of what he didn't expect offer fascinating up-to-date insights such as the inevitability of the depression he develops (lawyers "are about four times more likely to experience clinical depression than the general population") and the hard fact that "[l]aw schools don't fail students like they used to. They need the tuition dollars to stay competitive."
(July)
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I found the next one: "Solid
Submitted by Ryan (not verified) on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 21:52.
I found the next one:
"Solid and funk-free, Lawyerbow lovingly tosses American ego about like a cat with string, mixing things up just enough to remind us that, when we get down to what's really important, there isn't that much separating traditional red state muscle from blue state radicalism (among other factors, least of which are the deceivers and thieves among us). All within the space of a traditional nuts-and-bolts studio summer picture, that is - the area in which Rick Lax's very-capable adaptation succeeds most broadly, its barely-hidden subtext deliberately de-politicized in favor of more a more universally guided moral compass."
You can read the full review at http://projectionbooth.blogspot.com/2008/05/iron-man-2008-b.html
Good work buddy!
Yeah, this reviewer totally
Submitted by Rick Lax on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 00:17.
Yeah, this reviewer totally 'got' it.
Lawyer Boy graduates
Submitted by Elliott (not verified) on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 20:28.
Lawyer Boy graduates tomorrow. Will that make him a Lawyer Man, or does that not happen until he has practiced law for 13 years?
Publishers Weekly
The first LAWYER BOY review comes out on Monday. From Publishers Weekly.
I asked my editor how I’m supposed to prepare for this, and he said that he’d put a horse head in the bed of the PW reviewer assigned to the book.
But what I was really asking was how I’m supposed to prepare myself, emotionally, for this. I mean, when you get a bad review on your memoir, it’s like getting a bad review on your life.
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HOw do you know it will be
Submitted by tsaiguy (not verified) on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 19:12.
HOw do you know it will be bad?
I don't. Hoping for
Submitted by ricklax on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 19:31.
I don't. Hoping for good. So far it's gotten good reviews...from my parents.
Just trying to prepare for the worst...hoping for best...
That is the cutest stuffed
Submitted by Ryan (not verified) on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 21:31.
That is the cutest stuffed horse head I've ever seen!
Nah, because you can't
Submitted by Laurel (not verified) on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 04:28.
Nah, because you can't expect all good reviews. Prepare for the bad, and focus on the good. Your life is yours, who cares what other people think. Your book is good. Aside, I hope it's a great review because I think that is what you deserve.
Let me be the first to
Let me be the first to say:
Congratulations!!!
It's been a long time coming. Maybe I'll stalk the aisles of Barnes & Noble here in New York and do some of my own Lawyer Boy publicity.
Let me also be the first to express my regret. In college, you asked me out after Acting 101 and I said no. And even though we became fast friends, today I'd trade it all in for a chance to switch that monosyllable-word reply to a "yes."
Son of a.
Congrats again.
You should tape every
You should tape every morning show, daytime talk show, and late night show that airs today.
Then, you should do that Forrest Gump digital insertion thing, and make it look like you were in all of them. Your kids and grandkids will never know. I can see the dialog now:
Matt Lauer: "So, Dr. Sorenson, you're saying that polar bears are sick of global warming and are starting a cult that uses human sacrifices to cool the earth on the assumption that since people are 98.6 degrees, each person warms the earth with their body heat?"
Inserted Rick Lax: "Yes, the people at St. Martins have been great. My editors really helped me keep things tight and cohesive. I think any law student will enjoy the tips, and any lawyer will enjoy reading the book and thinking back on their own hijinx."
Matt Lauer: "So, Doctor, you're saying that the international child pornography rings are covers for the polar bear cult? That they use child porn to lure people into the 'To Catch a Predator' houses, but instead of being arrested, they are polarkilled?"
Inserted Rick Lax: "It's been quite an experience writing this book. I've had to walk a fine line between telling it like it is, and protecting the innocent.... and the not so innocent."
Matt Lauer: "Strange and troubling news indeed Doctor, thank you for alerting us to the impending danger."
Inserted Rick Lax: "Thanks for having me Matt."
CONGRATULATIONS R I C K Y
CONGRATULATIONS R I C K Y
It's now a few minutes
It's now a few minutes before 1:00 Chicago time...how were the Foie gras medallions and with the mayor?
Sounds delicious and confusing.
Sounds like the Today show's
Sounds like the Today show's gotten a whole more controversial...