a quick one while she's away

Well, $hit is crazy right now, to be blunt. Tomorrow I'm off to the great white north, and not just kinda' white but really white:


*I have no idea who these people are, just to be clear.

Speaking of white, I just got back from Nantucket, where, to paraphrase Tyler, I was the "hairiest person around." Here's what Nantucket kind of looks like:



Mike Birbiglia was there, and so was I, along with Kai and Susan. We had been discussing Birbigs' fantastic class clown joke, which goes something like "I was never the class clown. The class clown was the guy who would say 'you're fat, you're gay, I'm outta here!' I was always a little bit fat and a little bit gay." Suddenly, from a mysterious tent by the beach, we heard the magical words "you're fat, you're gay, I'm outta here!" only to realize that we had stumbled upon true comedic genius by accident (make sure you read Mike's account here):


*crappy iPhone photography courtesy of me and Steve Jobs. Seriously, is exposure control too much to ask for?

Then I moved to Park Slope, home to me and other A-list-in-my-book celebrities such as Donny, Jesus and the hot chick from Inventing the Abbotts. Seriously, can anyone else boast of having two stars of The Big Lebowski living in their neighborhood? It was sad to leave Somerville behind, but I didn't get into MIT because I'm not enough of a dork. More importantly, I really wanted to go here, and that's where I'll be in September.

I've been struggling to explain exactly what I will be doing, but I can tell you about some cool things that have come out of the program. There's GRL, there's Dodgeball, there's Clay Shirky, and many others. I think the website puts it best when they say that ITP is "a Center for the Recently Possible."

Speaking of graffiti, I just saw an excellent exhibit at Deitch by Os Gemeos which I would recommend seeing, except that it closes today. Here's some of their stuff:



Tonight, it's off to see 88 Boadrums at Brooklyn Bridge Park:


Tomorrow morning, Toronto, to see old camp friends, then Monday off on a four-day canoe excursion, then off to Columbus, OH on Friday to see what's-his-name. Ok, I'm off to go buy the Gemeos book. See you in a couple of weeks!