Mmm, books.
Colin showed me his newest book purchase, State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, and I couldn't help but notice who had written an essay on my fair little state of Massachusetts (while noting how little-read I must be since I only recognized a handful of other names who wrote of other states). The essay on Massachusetts was written by none other than the preminent John Hodgman! Moreover, I would discover, he was born somewhere in the tiny Boston burg of Brookline! Aw.