up north

Joy and I are in Duluth this weekend. Tonight's David Sedaris, the rest of the weekend is...open. There's some sort of democracy street festival tomorrow, Al Franken's going to be there. Hopefully we'll get to see that some. Plus there's a big aquarium. If I'm not too lazy, look for pictures of all this next week.

Oh, before I go, yesterday I went to this thing at Shinders with Jeffrey Brown and Nick Harmer (the bass player from Death Cab For Cutie). They were primarily there to sign this new Death Cab DVD which I guess has an animated short by Mr. Brown. I got one, and a copy of JB's new book. Haven't really gone over either too closely, but you know anything he does has got to be good.

Anyway, when I got there the artist was chatting with someone else, so I started up some small talk with the bassist, mentioning how I'd met him at ComicCon a couple of years ago through GR's Martin. He said he remembered, which I don't believe; but I admire his kindness in handling the situation.