| Date(s): Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
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BOOK PARTY
One night in the summer of 2000, local architect Henry Scollard spotted a cast-off, robotic-looking hairdryer on Tremont Street. He rescued it from impending junkyard fate because, as he writes in TAKING THINGS SERIOUSLY: 75 OBJECTS WITH UNEXPECTED SIGNIFICANCE, “If you’re a guy and you see something even vaguely robotic on the street, you don’t think; you act.” Scollard and his robot will be present at Pazzo Books tonight, along with Taking Things Seriously editor JOSHUA GLENN and a smattering of the book’s 73 other contributors, to celebrate Things’ release. Glenn, a long-time Globe “Ideas” section columnist and former Hermenaut ’zine mastermind, conceived the project as “like show-and-tell, or a wonder cabinet” of the everyday things we attach significance to. He encourages partygoers to bring their own objects of unexpected significance, so gather up your weird and your wonderful crap — after all, everyone loves show-and-tell. Pazzo’s at 4268 Washington St, Roslindale | 7 pm | free | 617.323.2919.
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