Jamies Blog

Our GM had his baby yesterday!

2009-08-11T13:17:00-05:00

...I mean his wife had their baby yesterday. Congrats to Dustin and Julia Walls on the birth of their son Jordan. I talked to Dustin and little while ago and he is already knee deep in dirty diapers...he ain’t seen nothing yet! This is the last post for my blog at ladyandsons.com, we are moving over to our new site, thedeenbros.com beginning next week. we are so excited and the site is awesome. Y’all jump over there and check it out. We are going to be working on content for the next few months and I need you to send in ideas for the areas y’all might like to see....we got a huge response for the condo name contest and I expect big ideas. We are going to have an “Ask the Deen Bros.” section, y’all know I love to answer questions, and I hope Bobby will start up his own blog too. A BIG thanks goes out to Phil, Michelle and Lisa for all their hard work in making this a site that looks great and will offer great ideas, recipes, conversations and fun for everyone. We had a great response on QVC this past weekend and sold out of our new book, Take It Easy. It was the first sell of the book and our first time on QVC for Random House and we are thrilled to be able to do well for both of our new partners....and we had fun too, of course. After another commercial plane travel snafu (someone left the lights on the plane burning all night and they had to recharge the batteries for an hour and a half, if you can believe that!) we missed our connector in Philly and had to drive up to West Chester. Our driver drove a hundred miles an hour and we skidded in the parking lot with 20 minutes to spare. We always do our best work under pressure. That’s all the time I have this morning, still have about 5000 cards to sign and we shoot the Christmas cover for mom’s magazine today and I have to get to the hospital to see the new bundle of joy! Look for us next week at http://www.thedeenbros.com and send me those ideas. Thanks for checking back, do good. -jamie

Better late…..

2009-08-05T14:00:00-05:00

than never. I have been a busy boy the last few days and have to sign 17,000(!) bookplates when I finish here this morning. That is not a typo...seventeen thousand, by August 12th. We are headed up to QVC Friday and Sunday and these are the stickers that will be in all the copies of Take It Easy offered this weekend. I hope they run out. We had some interesting travels this weekend. I won’t name names but the airline we were on rhymes with Belta. We see the time at the gate to board is 10:15 so Brooke gets a Diet Coke, Bobby goes to the bathroom and Jack and I are playing around the gate. I was asked if we were on the Atlanta flight and told to hustle up, it departs at 10:00 not the posted time. I have a tendency to get anxious when I fly, I missed a flight earlier in my life working with mom and was scarred, another story for another day. Anyway I get the family together and rush on board and we sit on the runway for an hour. Great. Jack has a limited amount of time he can “play” airplane and we don’t count delays as part of the day. We take off and circle around Atlanta for 45 minutes and are told the airport is calling off landings due to weather...we are going to Augusta. Huh? I have never been called off Atlanta in the 1000 times I have flown in there and for the first time look at my watch and think about the 6 o’clock showtime Bobby and I have in Nashville. We sit in Augusta for awhile and finally take off again and land in Atlanta at around 2 o’clock. Four hours to showtime and with the time change up there we have an extra hour. The folks from Nashville decide our best course of action is to jump in the car and drive up, a 4 hour trip. Brooke and I know Jack will do alot of things at this point and ride in the car for 4 hours is not one of them. We call her dad and he scoops them up and they just stay the night with them. Bobby and I fly (in the car) to Nashville, arrive at 6:10, tee-tee, slam a Diet Coke and walk on stage. Ah, showbiz! The show went well and the hotel is awesome. We worked till around 12 o’clock playing famous and after a cheese burger, I hit the sack. Brooke and Jack flew up early the next day we had a fun family day at the zoo and an early dinner at the Rainforest Cafe’. Jack has a new favorite restaurant. On Sunday morning the weather cleared up and we knew it would be smooth sailing home...... A delay in Nashville left us 20 minutes to catch our connection home in Atlanta and while we made the flight our luggage didn’t. The same luggage that had Jack’s blankets in them. The same blankets he has to have to sleep at night. I told him if he goes to sleep daddy will bring his blankets home and he will have them when he wakes up, “I promise”. I drag my rear out the airport at 10 o’clock Sunday night and watch the carousel go around until oh, about 1:15. Drive home, let the dog out and guess what?!? Jack wakes up. “Daddy, blankets please”. Crap. I crawl into his bed and we toss and turn until he finally falls asleep and at 5 o’clock in the morning in his sleep he kicks me in the face. Hard. Good morning! I got our bags Monday afternoon. We got our first official books from Random House yesterday and they are beautiful. We wil be on QVC Friday early evening and Sunday afternoon so y’all tune and in and see what’s cookin’. That reminds me....I have 17,000 stickers to sign. Thanks for checking back, sorry I was late. Do good things. -jamie

Next Post Coming Wednesday

2009-08-04T13:05:00-05:00

Jamie apologizes, but there is just so much going on, he asks that y’all give him until tomorrow for him to post. Thanks! Lisa

Book Signing August 12 in Savannah

2009-08-03T18:47:00-05:00

Good afternoon, everyone. It’s Lisa again. I just wanted to sign in and give y’all the info regarding the book signing next week since we now have the times confirmed. Wednesday 08/12/09 3:00 to 6:00 PM Paula, Jamie, Bobby and Uncle Bubba will be at Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House for a book signing. Free trolley service provided by Old Savannah Tours and Old Town Trolley at Johnson Square starting at 12 pm, running every 30 minutes until 3 pm with return trips available after the signing. For those of you planning to park downtown and take the shuttle, I highly recommend parking in one of the parking garages to help avoid parking tickets for expired meters. We hope to see you there! Lisa the Admin

No Post This Week

2009-07-30T12:23:00-05:00

Good morning to all you loyal blog followers. Jamie and Bobby have been busy this week getting ready for Nashville, so there won’t be a blog post. Those of you in the area should head over to the Food Network Southern Food & Wine Festival at Gaylord Opryland Friday through Sunday. I hear it’s going to be a blast! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Lisa the Admin

Y’all have questions….

2009-07-21T18:21:00-05:00

I have answers. Diane asked about our upcoming book tour dates and locations- Diane we are going to launch a brand new web site in a few weeks, thedeenbros.com, that will have every city and date of the tour. We are also moving the blog over there and I plan on having alot of fun at the new place. We are going to offer tons of recipes and have contest and keep y’all posted with lots of current photos. Cindy had some questions about the book signing here at the restaurant this Friday- Cindy will begin signing at 8am Friday morning with a end time set for 1030. I bet if folks are still hanging around we will be sure and take care of everybody. You can bring books from home or our store will have copies of anything you may need for your collection or someone you love.....guys, that’s you. Joelle wants us in Philly- See you there...we are set for October the 12th at Chester County Books at 7pm. Lesa wants dirt on the “kiss” between Bobby and Kathy Griffin- No one was more surprised than me when he laid one on her at the end of the filming. So much of reality TV is set up or encouraged but that was all Bobby on the spot and I liked to choked when he went in for the kill. We had alot of fun doing the show, she does’nt play so dirty in real life (at least around us those few days) and I thought it was a perfect end to the episode. Teresa noticed from a Twitter photo I sent that mom is looking trim- She has been working out everyday and while it was like pullin’ teeth for her in the beginning I think she feels better already and is looking great. Go ahead momma! Jann is on the prowl I guess- That’s my cousin Jay, Uncle Bubba’s son, who manages the Paula Deen store for us here in Savannah. I hope you all have a blessed week and if you haven’t got around to it yet check us out on the twitter deal...I still don’t know how you find us but almost 3000 people have in the last week so y’all come join the party. thanks for checking back....do good things -jamie

I am slowly being eaten by electronic progress….

2009-07-14T12:38:00-05:00

yes, I now twitter. We are “DeenBros.” I think.....if y’all care to hunt it down and have problems finding us, drop a line here and Lisa or Phil can help you out. Does this make me a twit? Anyway, it seems harmless enough, I am not gonna promise I will do it forever but at least through our upcoming book tour so I can keep y’all posted as to where we are and whats shaking. Mom sat down with us yesterday while we recorded our third podcast which will be available next week, and we had a great time. It lasted a hair under 30 minutes so block out some time before y’all fire it up. Momma has been in town for almost 2 weeks and its been a real treat for us around here to have her plug back into the day to day operations of the business. She has even come down to play famous at the restaurant a few days....speaking of, I need to get downstairs myself. Thanks for checking back in..... do good -jamie

Sorry y’all

2009-07-08T12:20:00-05:00

the date for the signing is Friday the 24th..... -jamie

Thank you Deb M.!!!!

2009-07-07T15:27:00-05:00

Deb M. sent me a pizza from Lou Malnattie’s(?) in Chicago as a birthday gift. A thousand thanks Deb! It was sooooo good too. I ate them both the day I received the package and yum yum, that is the best pizza in the whole world. I am holding steady in my “trying to eat better” plan, I hate to say diet, but I dove into those pies with both feet. For those of you who have not had a true deep dish pizza, and if you count the delivery places… you haven’t, you must find a way to get next to one soon. The cheese is the bottom layer and then sauce and topped with meat, sausage is my favorite( thanks again Deb) and it’s deep and crispy. One of a kind and the best. The Best! Brooke and I celebrated our birthday’s this year by taking Jack to the Thomas the Train live stage show at the Fox Theater in Atlanta and we could not have had a better day. He is at the age of everything being such a wonder. We just watched his face for two hours and every time he turned to us wide eyed and his little mouth forming a perfect O we melted. We need a second child to tip the scales back to an equal balance. We are both hopeless suckers for that kid. The book-signing will be 8:am until 10:am or so, I figure we will run over, at the restaurant Friday July the 24rd. We are gonna have some fun so I hope anyone that wants to come can make the trip. Oh, quick aside to Maryan, my wife was a Zeta too. Gotta boogie y’all, thanks for checking back Do good -jamie P.S. I was so busy I almost forgot to say thank y’all for a great first year for me on the blog. It’s been a little over one year and we have had 1.2 million views! Thanks again.

It’s me……

2009-06-30T15:22:00-05:00

the younger Deen brother! That’s right , my old brother turned 42 yesterday. Happy Birthday Jamie...how’s 42 feel. Well, at least you still look 41. Jamie knows I love him and y’all know we love to kid each other about anything we can find and his being older than me is always my go to move. We are staying really busy here in Savannah. Summer has officially started and along with the temperature, our crowds for lunch and dinner have gone up too. We are so thankful to see a rise in business around here. Jamie is out today putting the finishing touches on his birthday plans for Brooke tomorrow and wanted me to pop in and say thanks to y’all for coming back by and he will get to your questions next week. So, thanks ya’ll..... Bobby Deen