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For those of you who are interested, I'll be signing copies of For the Love of Murphy's from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Heinz History Center in the Strip District.

I'll also be at the Pitt Book Center in Oakland (near Children's Hospital) at 12 p.m. next Thursday, Dec. 11.

There's a chance that I'll also be at Foodland this week; however, that will be to buy toilet paper, taco chips, bread and soap. But hell, if you want me to sign any of those for you, hey, meet me by the produce case.

In other book-related news, I was interviewed Friday morning by P.J. Maloney on KQV (1410). You can listen here.

In all honesty, I should mention that I've recently received two complaints about the book.

"I went to Barnes & Noble yesterday with money in hand, ready to buy your book," one lady wrote me yesterday. "Before I purchased it, though, I thought I would look through it briefly. It is a very good book about G.C. Murphy; however, I couldn't find anything in it about the Homewood store ... Therefore, I didn't purchase it."

Another guy gave it a mediocre review on Amazon.com because I didn't write anything about Rockville, Md.

So, if you were looking for a book about Homewood, Pa., or Rockville, Md., please don't buy mine, or you'll be disappointed.

Other towns that I didn't write anything about in the Murphy book include East Smethport, Pa., Ablemarle, N.C., Clendenin, W.Va., and New Bavaria, Ohio, so all of you people in those places, don't bother.

Finally, we've received reports that WRCT-FM's "Radio 9" show will be taping on location from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. this Friday at Jacob Woll Pavilion in Renziehausen Park during the Festival of Trees.

The host of "Radio 9" used to date one of my old girlfriends, and come to think of it, she never wrote anything about Rockville, Md., either, which is probably why that relationship didn't last.