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Dictionopolis

October 1st, 2008 | Other Projects, Sketch Diary, Uncategorized

Yesterday I paid a visit to my publisher, Houghton Mifflin, in Boston, and got to meet these two guys who work on the American Heritage Dictionary. Read the rest of this entry »

fire!

September 26th, 2008 | Travels and Appearances, Uncategorized

I’m home in Vermont after a three-day jaunt to the midwest, and look what happened while I was gone! The woods are aflame.

I carted State By State on my trip with me, which Read the rest of this entry »

postmodern post in chicago

September 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized

This is me on the stage of the auditorium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I will imminently be giving a lecture. Out front, they have a computer set up with my blog on it. So I thought I’d make the blog be about the event.

I would like to have posted a picture here of the blog on the computer outside the auditorium. But I couldn’t manage that because I don’t have my camera cable, and my computer, with its magic internal camera, is all hooked up for the presentation. But I was able to use the magic computer camera  to take this picture of me and the auditorium screen, which WAS projecting the camera image of me…but it got washed out at the moment the photo was captured.

Could you follow that?

Is anyone at the SAIC looking?