I spent some time at ALA Annual in Chicago last week handing out Codslap! zines to random people. Most of the zines went to Library Society of the World types who already knew about it and were looking forward to seeing it, but I handed out a few to strangers, like the people in the Bookforum booth who seemed a little bored, or the folks working the info desk at the Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library.

Then I pretty much threw a copy at Neil Gaiman, but he didn’t get it. (Here’s the story on FriendFeed, Josh’s message to Neil and Neil’s reply (!) on Twitter, and Dorothea’s message and Neil’s reply (!!))

I was successful in getting the zine and an LSW badge ribbon (thank you Candaian non-ALA-attending posse for getting those done!) to the Shanachie Tour Dutch guys, and they were nice enough to do an interview with me about the LSW. You can view it below (mom, my part starts at about 6:50). I think it turned out well–I sound surprisingly prepared, given I had no idea we were going to do this ahead of time.

ALA Annual Conference 2009 Chicago from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.