pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

If you haven’t completely booked up your Halloween evening with yet another costume party you should make room to visit Powells Books tonight to hear Amy Sedaris, one of the funniest women on the planet. She’ll be reading from her new book, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. A guide to being the perfect hostess. Here’s an excerpt from a recent review - “She’s a generous but crafty hostess (’A good trick is to fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. Nothing announces a nosey guest better than an avalanche of marbles hitting a porcelain sink’). Etiquette pointers include inappropriate introductions (’This is Barbara, she can’t have children’) and things to avoid saying to the grieving (’Did she smoke?’ ‘Was he drinking?’ ‘Where were you when this happened?’).”