a brief update from the Port Columbus airport

While I've made little progress towards getting a book of my own published, I've got little bits and pieces coming out in a bunch of books -- a story in Rachel Kramer Bussel's Sex and Candy, a couple of farcical anecdotes in Judy McGuire's book on bad dates, and now, I've been asked to comment for the upcoming Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights on the probable outcome of fights including:

   
Voltaire vs. Voltron!
I am clearly an expert in this matter!

No prognosticating on this in the comments -- I haven't written my own predictions yet and I don't want to read anyone else's lest I be accused of plagiarizing from my own blog and you of influencing the outcome of the imaginary fight.

Apropos to the title of this post, all flights everywhere are delayed due to winds. Ohio snowed on me a bunch.

I am popular in Findlay, Ohio, apparently enough so that some people drove down from Bowling Green. I am substantially less popular in Columbus. Monday, April 23rd is the next Pete's show -- I'm bringing all the jokes that people in Columbus hated, which means they are sure to be a hit in Williamsburg.

A big, beefy white guy (as though anyone in Ohio weren't big, beefy, and white) working the security checkpoint had a little comedy routine of his own going, continually repeating instructions about removing your liquids and gels from your bag and putting items under four ounces in a clear Zip-loc, during which he launched into a detailed explanation of the difference between lipstick and lip gloss, the latter coming in a tube and having an applicator stick and being "gooier."