Jonathan Coulton

Aw, come on! Are you kidding me? Thanks Michael, for calling this to my attention…

First I thought this was computer animation, but it’s footage of an actual robot built by Interbots, a crazy robot-making company that spun off from a crazy robot-making project at Carnegie Mellon. Hooray for robots!

As you know, my favorite way to be mentioned is casually, as if a mention of my name requires no explanation. Imagine my delight when this snippet appeared in Salon’s Sexiest Man Living piece today (this paragraph is about the definitely very sexy Flight of the Conchords kids):

Separately, they’re adorable, but together, they enter a pantheon of witty troubadours that includes Jonathan Richman, They Might Be Giants and Jonathan Coulton — men who are a little bit Bruce, a little bit Groucho, and more than a little appealing.

I didn’t make the sexy list, but it does take two Conchords to make one of me (or one Jonathan Richman, or two Giants). And when they say “Bruce,” obviously they mean Bruce Vilanch, so you know, that’s good.

So this week was already a little swiss cheesed with business when it was finally torpedoed by a surprise trip to Vegas today (I’m doing this thing for Game Head on Spike TV). The new song will have to wait till next week to get finished. The good news is, I’ve got another one ready to go after that. And I guess the other good news is that I’m taking a surprise trip to Vegas.

Welcome Home JoCo, originally uploaded by jcoulton.

Thanks pigeon!

That was one hell of a crowd last night in Atlanta – thank you all for making big fun. As you can see, my spirit animal was here to greet me in baggage claim at JFK, and he let me know the trip was a success by pooping on the floor when the buzzer went off and the belt started to move. I do love this town.