"[Funding through alternative means] seems to be turning out better for me than the official rock'n'roll company albums I struggle through," he sighed, leaning on the lectern, wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a plunge-necked black top.
The format of the session was speeches by each of the three writers, and Alexis Wright took to the lectern next, her speech soft and halting.
Taking his turn at the lectern, van Haersma Buma tells MPs that the Dutch government could be fined up to €1.2bn if it rebelled, and failed to cut its deficit to 3% of GDP next year.
One of those speaking from said lectern this morning is the always... entertaining... Rep. Louis Gohmert of Texas, who's not known for filtering out his worst ideas so much as he is for screaming them at full volume.
At an emergency briefing on Thursday 5 February, fire meteorologist Claire Yeo found the news she had to deliver so grave that she froze in silence at her lectern.
Mr Clement, who takes the lectern at the Supreme Court about as regularly as the rest of us brush our teeth, seemed to persuade a majority of the justices that Arizonans' "avowed effort to redelegate [redistricting] authority to an unelected and unaccountable commission is plainly repugnant to the Constitution's vesting of that authority in the legislatures of the states".
Mr Hu grimly gripped his lectern as Mr Obama delivered a statement in which he spoke of the universality of America's human-rights values.
Having done more than 50 of such events as Tory leader, he is better at it than he is behind a lectern.
Edmund Stoiber, the conservative candidate for the chancellorship, confidently grasped the lectern.
ONE-BY-ONE they approach the lectern, explaining why they will cast their votes.
They would happily vote for an empty lectern over Mr Obama, but as an empty lectern is not on the ballot, Mr Romney will have to do.(Photo credit: AFP).
