Jonathan Coulton

Of course you remember the 700 Hoboes Project, in which a band of illustrators are attempting to draw all 700 of John Hodgman’s hobo names. There’s now an official website. 208 and counting…

If Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s that being trapped in a mall surrounded by a million zombies would be really troublesome. But how much more annoying would it be if the head zombie used to be your co-worker, and he was kind of a prick even before he got infected? And now he’s right outside and he just keeps talking and talking – still the same jackass, only now he wants to eat your brains?

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According to the New York Times, the beard may be making a comeback. Maybe it’s a reaction to the boyish, hairless, metrosexual look that’s been in vogue for so long, or maybe it’s just that beards are AWESOME. But I got news for you, so called New York Times: some of us have been “rough and manly” since way before the turn of the century, just waiting for all you smooth hairless fellows to get off your high, clean-shaven horses. Wake up and smell the whiskers, bitches…

Now this is awesome – I just got a very sweet letter from a 10th grade class in Minnesota who made a video for Mandelbrot Set. They’re from Sobriety High, a sober school for kids who have gone through chemical dependency treatment and want to finish up high school in a place without the standard high school temptations. They researched fractals and Benoit, drew pictures, took photos and put the whole thing together just to make me cry like a little baby. The project is detailed on their website. It makes me very happy.

Another interview on the Slice of Sci-Fi podcast if you’re into that sort of thing – thanks guys! And if you’re really looking for an overdose of Coulton, you can listen to Mark Forman’s latest Getting a Legup Podcast which sounds like the inside of my head when I’m having a dream about dreaming about myself. It’s like having a heaping Coulton sampler plate scraped into your mouth.

And because a friend of mine was complaining that this isn’t really that much of a “blog” because it’s really just news about me and copyright issues, I will balance the above news about me with a link to something that you will find really interesting.