Friday Stuff and Items

They're Making a List

Here is the Guardian's take on the books that have defined the decade. How many have you read?

Get a Grip

This is far and away the best/most hilarious thing to come out of the Tiger Woods scandal*. (Promise.) Now, how best for our marketing department to replicate this for one of our books, I wonder...

Huzzah!

Launched in very fine style last night by the incredibly dashing Bernard Caleo, was Tango squared. The Tango Collection and Tango 9 Love & War. We don't have any launch photos (yet) so you'll have to content yourselves with some sightings of The Tango Collection in the wild...

Free range

Speaking of 'in the wild'. Look, look who has escaped the printed page! At this time of year, Mr Chicken must be very glad he's not Mr Turkey.


Simultaneous Love**

A very special event is taking place in the House of Onion and the Mothership this afternoon. At the end of the working day, we are downing tools for a simultaneous screening of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Our film-tie in edition is out in the world (with the cute-as-Christmas Michael Cera gracing the cover), but most of us have never seen the movie. A situation that will be remedied in both Houses of Onion at 5pm today. CANNOT WAIT! (Just kicking myself that I didn't wear my Where's Fluffy t-shirt to work today. )

* Or, as Babel Fish translation would call it, le scandale de tigre bois

**But not the same kind that Chef from South Park sings about.

Friday Imperatives

(Or, stuff to do when you should be doing other stuff.)

Test your spelling prowess.

Test your vocabulary (and donate rice!).

Go forth and see Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist at Moonlight Cinema in Melbourne this Sunday night. Where you could Win a soundtrack and a copy of the book.

Drool over the awesome Nick & Norah Tshirts that came down to us from the Mothership. (Thanks LB and JY, we love them!)

Celebrate the fact that Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall by Greg de Moore has been shortlisted for the 2009 National Biography Award. Hooray!

Further proof that the cake-maker extraordinaire is also a book-maker extraordinaire.