I Always Bring My Kids

There Must Be Something Innate About Maps, About This One Specific Way Of Picturing Our World And Our Relation To It, That Charms Us, Calls To Us, Won’t Let Us Look Anywhere Else In The Room If There’s A Map On The Wall.

You Watch An Old 'jeopardy!' And The Categories Alone Are Very Plain. 'poetry,' Or 'movies,' Or 'physics.' If You Watch It Now, Though, There'll Be A Theme Board Where The Categories Are All Hitchcock Movies. Lots More Jokes, Lots More High-concept Categories And Questions.

Twitter Makes You A Comedian In The Same Way That Digital Cameras Make You A Photographer

For Me, It Started As A Child With One Of Those Little Wooden Jigsaw Maps Of The U.s., Wheres Theres Crocodiles On Florida And Apples On Washington State. That Was My Very First Map.

Eratosthenes, The Mapmaker Who Was The First Man To Accurately Measure The Size Of The Earth, Was A Librarian.