ICE CUBES: One of these things is not like the other

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ICE CUBES: One of these things is not like the other

POSTED: Friday, February 11, 2011, 7:00 PM

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Photo | Scott Weiner

Anyone who loves Ice Cubes knows that I am a big fan of book signings. I'm certain to be camped out all week at the fifth annual Philadelphia Book Festival in April — and not just because I want to watch Tina Fey and Garrison Keillor in action. Sonia Lynn Sadler and Kadir Nelson will undoubtedly rock it like mo-fos. Anyway, two major book signing tours started in the area, each one a bigger doozy than the last. Jennifer "J Woww" Farley of Jersey Shore fame did her first book signing for The Rules According To J Woww: Shore-Tested Secrets on Landing a Mint Guy, Staying Fresh to Death, and Kicking the Competition to the Curb at Bookends in Ridgewood, N.J., where the only thing longer than the book's title was the crowd there to see her. "Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore," writes J Woww. Oy. It's probably better than A Shore Thing by "Snooki" Polizzi but certainly not the masterpiece that Here's The Situation was. Saying. On Mar. 14, Farley's doing another signing at that bastion of literature, Tavern on Broad (200 S. Broad St.). Have the calamari while in the reading room.

Photo | Scott Weiner

The other first stop of a highly-anticipated national book tour was U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld who packed the National Constitution Center with tales from Known and Unknown, where talks about his four terms in Congress and having served under Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and George W. Bush. Did you know that Bush wasn't an idiot? Me neither. But that's in Rummy's book. There might not be as much as you wanted to know about WMDs in his book, but then again he's got nothing to say in regard to the smushing or smackdowns in J Woww's tome. Go figger.

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