YOU MAY NOW BEGIN DISMANTLING your tall buildings of paste and papier mache.
IT WAS A LOVELY VISIT with both Lawrence Weschler at the Humanities Festival
AND OF COURSE, the late night Malort club.
I GO TO ANN ARBOR NOW to say hello to the ancient BORDERS #1.
MEANWHILE, I STAND CORRECTED. As per @nickcatal, the photo of me in a viper from my FIRST visit to space is indeed on the Internet.
THAT IS ALL
1969, DALLAS, TX: The first ATM machine is installed. Standing for “AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE MACHINE,” the first ATM could receive deposits and dispense cash (though only in coins) and was roughly the size of a city block. Despite its name, it was not wholly automated: A single human controller was required to supervise and make manual notations in the customer’s bankbook. He would sit in a little dome atop the machine. However, this bank employee was instructed to wear a tinfoil suit and talk like a machine so as not to ruin the futuristic effect.
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Uh, you may want to double check that image…
Comment by Folcon — November 11, 2009 @ 12:09 pm
Wish I could have been there, John, because at least then I’d have a payoff to all the stapling and unstapling involved in constructing a glittering mirage out of our barren Midwestern plain. Really pleased you’re including the Miami Book Fair in your schedule, too. I lived in Miami for three years during grad school and the fair (along with a magical bar-from-another-era called Fox’s on Route 1) was about all I found redeeming about the place. Hope your appearance goes well and hope you also have time to slip into a reading or two; lots of great authors descend on the city every year.
Comment by Scott Tobias — November 11, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
The Malort Club was great! As the one that chugged the last of the second (“tainted”) bottle I’d like to apologize to anybody who didn’t get any as a result (or rather, you are welcome).
Come back soon, but don’t forget to tell us in advance(papier mache takes a while to dry)
Comment by gimbu — November 11, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
My first reaction upon reading the world “viper” was that you would be in some sort of snake-costume, and then I assumed maybe a Dodge Viper, and then, upon seeing the photo, I thought you were in some kind of X-Wing or something. In related news, I have never seen Battlestar Galactus or whatever it’s called.
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Clearly Wiki Battlestar doesn’t know who they’re dealing with. What kind of a global paradox do we live in where John Hodgman can be seen in a giant ad across the front page of YouTube, but on the same day he’s refused permission to post a picture of himself as himself on his own blog.
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There would be very many benefits to this Course of Action, besides replacing the moon-sized mall next to where I live and the Earth-sized Ikea Shopping Center where I purchased all of my furniture before I realized I had no idea how to assemble any of it (which I learned only after suffering a skull fracture).
We have two bookstores in Emeryville: a Stupendous Borders and a Very Grand and Palatial Barnes and Noble (I do not visit either of them at this time, unfortunately. My wife Gladys forbids me from visiting any bookstore until I promise not to draw in their coloring books. She also took my crayons away from me.).
You could also stay at my house and meet me and my Very Interesting Family. Pixar Studios is also located a short walk from my house, but do not be afraid. I will not permit Pixar Studios to kidnap and imprison you in one of their computer animated castle dungeons with my other toys they stole from me.
Please have the City of Chicago contact me about shipping their dismantled buildings to Emeryville. I am very confident that the Sears Tower will look very impressive on the spot where the Black & White Liquor Store now stands.
Thank you for your help.
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Comment by El Payo — November 12, 2009 @ 5:04 pm
gazing up at you through a foggy haze of malort and ennui i could picture you stumbling down a great chicago street such as state street tears streaming down your face malort in hand the sun rising also what did you think of dune
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I am saddened by the fact that I missed your re-arrival in Chicago. That is what I get for being away from the internet for so long.
I am back now and it won’t happen again!
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Every time I look for famous minor television personalities in my city, I always notice the tall buildings disappearing right after the date of the appearance. Somehow I never notice them go up. Drat. Didn’t even know you were on a kind of book tour!
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