Tuesday, November 09, 1999
Buffett book pushed back to December
BY JIM KNIPPENBERG
The Cincinnati Enquirer
OK, where the heck is jimmy.com (St. Somewhere Press; $30-ish)?
It's Jackson Quigley's book about the effect of the Internet on Parrotheads, featuring a bunch of pictures from Cincinnati concerts.
Scheduled for an early October release, the coffee-table book is 1,000 pictures and accompanying text. And nowhere to be found.
“The date was tentative,” Quigley says. “This one's firm: First week in December.”
Quigley, a 53-year-old refugee from corporate America who decided Buffett is more fun than meetings, is on the road hitting every Buffett concert of 1999 — 39 or 40.
And conspiring with wife Barbara. “She called me on the road and said if you can quit, so can I.” She's now an artist doing Buffett-esque tropical scenes.
“We just showed 14 in Key West at the Parrothead Convention. Now. she's working on a deal with Buffett's people to market them.”
Check him out at www.jimmyDOTcom.com.
MARCHING AWAY: We're going to need a round of applause here. Maybe an oompah, too.
Clap it for the West Lakota Marching Firebirds — a 200-member band headed to Hollywood in three weeks.
It's one of 15 bands invited to march Nov. 28 in the 68th Hollywood Christmas Parade, a 2-mile trek up Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards.
“Lakota West goes West is how we're referring to it,” says band director Greg Snyder. The band submitted an application, video and list of awards.
Selection, says parade spokeswoman Lisa Carey, was based on sound quality, precision of marching, overall look during a moving perform ance and record in competitions (such as last weekend when the Firebirds won a Superior rating, highest you can get, in a statewide competition).
Students are financing the trip, $850 each, with proceeds from bake sales, car washes, entertainment booklets and help from the band boosters.
They'll also perform at the Hollywood Bowl, Snyder says, doing the Mussorgsky music they perform in competition.
GIVE IT A TRY: Kathleen Watkins, meanwhile, is still waiting to do some testing.
The 10-year-old, home-schooled Mount Washington resident is one of 100 kids on the Zillions (Consumer Reports for Kids) Z-team, a panel of 8- to 14-year-olds who test new products then report back to the magazine for stories.
This month's edition, for example, has kids ranking the top 10 new toys for Christmas, breakfast cereals and video games.
Watkins didn't participate. But she has, she says, participated in surveys on cameras (what kind you have? what kind you want?) and one on how new products, such as Furbys, get their names.
The magazine also asked her to re-decorate her room with as much creativity and as little cash as possible, then supply before and after pictures. She declined.
Now, she's waiting: “I'm ready to test, but they haven't sent anything yet.”
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