Survived the voyage to Hodgman/Coulton

[demiurgent]

Weds and I are just back from a trip to Brookline to see the kickoff of the John Hodgman More Information Than You Require book tour. Though Jonathan Coulton wings off to a European tour tomorrow, he was on hand tonight, adding some songs to the proceedings. Afterward, Weds and I had decent if not remarkable Korean barbeque, followed by a trip to Brookline Booksmith to get my copy of the book autographed. (Weds, having an Audiobook only, elected to purchase an Alison Bechdel book which she then brought to have the two sign instead. (They got a kick out of this, it's worth noting, and were quite good at drawing stories out of those getting stuff signed, learning some of our immigration woes and the various spellings of 'Eric' I've had to endure in my time.)

I'll do something for Websnark later, going into more detail, but all in all it was an excellent evening. The actual reading/etc was short but for God's sake it only cost five bucks and featured a duet on guitar and ukulele. What more could one ask for?

Comments

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

A magic pony?

[glych.livejournal.com]

I envy your Coulton viewing ways! Sure, The Daily Show's resident expert is cool too (The Areas of my Expertise? Halarious!)...but COULTON!

AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeee

[chanlemur.livejournal.com]

The Coulton/Hodgman power combo is pretty near unstoppable. I eventually plan to purchase "The Areas of My Expertise" in audiobook format for just this reason, despite the fact that it perforce leaves out many useful pieces of information presented in tabular format. I hope there are similar plans for the second book, and the third, and all subsequent books on into infinity.

[usagijer.livejournal.com]

saweeeeeeet.
I'd heard about this, but couldn't figure out how to get into the city in time.

[wednesday]

Heh, and we had an extra ticket going, too. Figures. I think there's going to be more Hodgman-half stuff in the area in the next few weeks, but not 100% sure when or where exactly.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude! You were in town and you didn't tell us?!

:P

Robin

[miyaa99.livejournal.com]

Sounds better than the guitar/ukulele combination I've seen on those Burger King commercials. Really, the ukulele is a lot like the piccolo. I have yet to hear a ukulele player that didn't involve singing Tiptoe through the Tulips as a piccolo player that wasn't asked to be the soloist in a John Phillips Sousa patriotic march.