THIS IS NOT SELF PROMOTION
IT TRULY ISN'T. For I have no direct connection (and very little contact) with the army of brilliant obsessives who are illustrating the list of 700 Mole-Men that appears in my new book.
ANY MORE than I was connected to them when they illustrated the 700 HOBOES from my last book.
OR TO Boing Boing back when Mark Frauenfelder put them up to it.
IT IS ALL GENUINE, GRASS ROOTS madness. And I am delighted and awed and scared by it. It's sort of the same way I feel about grass and roots.
That is all.
the latest
latest episodes
Delightful. I hope you make it to the Singularity and we get to hang out in a few billion years.
I MUST KNOW: do you talk like that too?!
Wot?! No Sir Joseph Bazalgette?!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bazalgette_joseph.shtml
#2
I DO BELIEVE he does.
Aw man, another Hodgman post with a picture of him....
:p
hi john
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Why is it that whenever I see Mr. Hodgman, I want to put him in a nice little box and keep him under my bed?
I DO BELIEVE he'd make a nice wingman.
John is that your pet Montock monster?
S mch fr n ntrstng wk f blggng frm Jhn. S fr t's bn n slf-dnd slf-prmtn ftr nthr. gh. Y shld hv jst bght n d hr nd lt t rn fr wk.
"THIS IS NOT SELF PROMOTION"
THANK GOODNESS!
stick figure porn is hot (so sue me, somebody had to say it!)
Dude...you rocked on the Daily Show. This may be not the right place to say it, but...it's where I am now!
700 teachers drawn by kids would be sweet
#13,
INDEED, HE SHOULD make a post detailing his special work-out routine that he gave on the show.
/ok, I'll stop with the capital letters imitating John's posting style
//MAYBE...
I am a HOBO
Your style = fresh. (at least for me). Keep it coming.
Thanks for linking to our new site! Hopefully I should have some new features up on the site in the next week.
@ #13 "/ok, I'll stop with the capital letters imitating John's posting style"
No no, it might catch on as the next "typing with no vowels" that everyone knows and loves so much.
Sheesh - you guys. What was so offensive about #10? Just expressing a not unsurprising opinion in a fairly mild and unoffensive way.
Talk about touchy.
So just for the record THIS IS NOT another post about too much SELF PROMOTION.
IT TRULY ISN'T
ANY MORE than #10's was.
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You all seem to be forgetting the Hodgman is the GUEST IMITATION BLOGER. He is not promoting himself, but an imitation of himself. One can only assume his advance and royalties come on IMITATION CHECKS.
I downloaded the audio The Areas of My Expertise when it was fee on iTunes. It truly felt like an IMITATION BOOK. Miraculously, it cured my insomnia and my psoriasis. Thank you for your unexpected and serendipitous largesse, Mr. Hodgman.
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Precisely. I refer to my previous statement, m'lud.
Looks like a neat book John. No worries on self promotion...fame is fleeting, get it while it's good. ;)
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Hr s wht pstd:
S mch fr n ntrstng wk f blggng frm Jhn. S fr t's bn n slf-dnd slf-prmtn ftr nthr. Y shld hv jst bght n d hr nd lt t rn fr wk.
@#16 highlyevolved
Are you using a WiFi compatible bindle or something? Or perhaps you swapped a pair of soup cans in exchanged for that picture frame leaned against an empty Dell box to connect to the internet?
It seems Mr. Hodgman is facilitating the Hobo scourge of whimsically thrifty wandering... it has even seeped onto the world wide web.
Gary,
Read the Moderation Policy.
#26 posted by GaryInMiami:
You have to admire the mad, grass roots genius of it though.
Oh. . . . The moderation statement is interesting.
Guess I just don't see the trollism, profanity or irrelevance of Gary's statement.
I am not the moderator though.
I am, however, on notice that what I consider to be legit posts may be missing from boards I trusted as a fair representation.
Surprising how much smaller it makes the Internet seem.
smaller? quit squinting then.
I should have seen this yesterday, but thank you for posting my mole-man, Mr. Hodgman. I am enjoying your book a lot.
ah!
Mr. Kenneth Pteroplume
Reminds me a lot of this guy I know who runs Quick Stop Entertainment. The mole man, I mean. Not the feathered beast at his feet.
Well, in honor of the "700 Mole-man Project," I've created the "Which Mole-Man Are You?" name generator, which, once you enter your human name, will tell you what your Mole-man (or Mole-woman) name is. It's just a silly interweb toy that's just for the fun of it, so, check it out and have some fun with it:
Which Mole-Man Are You?
http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/11548/
The beast on the illustration looks exactly like an mythological being of the Chiloé culture (a great island in south Chile). It's called the "basilisco" and it's suposed to look like a snake or a lizzard with a cock's head. In chiloe's folklore the basilisco aproaches ill people while they sleep and fedds on their fluids, killing the patients.
The gohul-like being on the picture also resemples a bit to another Chiloe-myths-being: the deform guardian of the Warlock's cave; the Invunche. This one, altough, is quite more repulsive and grotesque than the one on the picture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilota_mythology