The Empire State Book Festival

April 12, 2010

I premiered my new show, ¡The Punctuation Show! (How to Use Tiny Symbols to Make Meaning Without %$^&#* Up), at the Empire State Book Festival in Albany this Saturday.

Here’s a shot of the room as people were filing in:

I will take a municipal auditorium at 2:25 pm over half-price hot wings at the Barrel 0′ Laffz anyday. Thanks to everyone who attended, and to my volunteers who agreed to punctuate enormous projected sentences, Twister-style!

This sort of thing makes my day:

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