So one of the things I do at work is walk people around the museum and tell them stuff.
Here’s a picture of me working my mojo:

However, when I do this, I channel the spirit of Randy “Macho Man” Savage:

Funny article about the man born as Randy Poffo: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52287

The George Plimpton Project (http://plimptonproject.org/) is holding a haiku contest on the subject of George. I entered a couple of haikus based on the time I found the book Paper Lion (read it!) in an airport shop in Guatemala City. It was (if I remember correctly) literally the only English book in any of the shops.

They’re finalists in the contest! $200 up for grabs and bragging rights. Here they are:

> A Guatemalan
> Airport, a lone book, tattered,
> George as a Lion

> A distant airport
> Shop, A single English book
> George in a jersey

Yeah, not fine literature, but you try working the word Guatemala into a haiku.

I thought this picture from Yahoo news could be the funniest thing of the day:

But then my friend Nini took it one step further:

Death to Imperialist cereals!

of predictable graphic design? You decide as you check out the ads for the two 9/11 related specials, both advertised in the Sunday Times, both appearing at 8 PM on 9/10, only 10 pages apart.

Among the “It’s been 5 years, please be fearful” coverage, here’s a neat little chart from Wired (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71743-0.html) of what is more likely to kill you than terrorism based on statistics from 1995-2005. Go get those hernia checks.

So after a few unfruitful attempts at submitting lists, I finally got a piece up on McSweeney’s:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/8/23hart.html