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I have an interesting Ellis story that I had the pleasure of experiencing yesterday (Sunday).
My wonderful girlfriend was kind enough to drive me to Chicago in pursuit of Ellis' appearance at the Lookinglass Theatre. We live in Michigan so it was quite the drive, forcing us to leave at 8:45 MI time, the event that started at 1:00 MI time. Whenever my g/f and I go to chicago we usually park in this little parking lot right next to an apartment her friend used to live, saves us money. We spent over an hour looking for this spot. Traffic problems and, worst of all, we made a wrong turn and couldn't remember how to get back to where we were. So, sadly enough, we were unable to attend the event. However...we figured the trip to chicago oughta be worth something, so we took the L-train and rode around for a little under an hour before we got off in downtown Chicago to head to the Cheesecake factory. Unbeknownst to me, the Cheesecake factory is located right next to the Lookinglass Theatre. So we stopped by, hoping he'd still be there. I saw a kid come out of the building carrying a copy of "Lunar Park" so i asked him if Ellis was still inside and he told that he was. So Tara and I hurriedly headed in and found the room he was at. I stepped inside and spotted him right next to the entrance with a minimal line in front of him. We immediately headed to the end of the line where we waited for only about 10 minutes while i built up some sort of conversational dialogue in my head. When it got to us, I walked up and placed my palms on his desk and tried to begin a sentence, and he veered his head back and looked at me like I was crazy. I blurted out some gibberish very quickly, trying to explain how I had all 6 of his books in a bag in a truck that was located about 20 miles away and that I'm a big fan and that we were too late for the interview cuz we came from Michigan. It probably came out very incoherently, luckily Tara was there to translate it for me. He sort of laughed and seemed to feel bad for us. He probably thought i was going to ask him if he could either come to my truck and sign the books or wait around for about 45 minutes while i go get them. After hearing my story he seemed relieved, he shook my hand and said thanks for coming though and hopefully we'll get to see it next time. Next time we'll just take the train.

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