brush with greatness

So the big event of my week (I guess) was my appearance on local TV this morning. It's a long(ish) and not very interesting story, but the upshot is that I was on Virginia This Morning to talk about "smart gifts for kids." As is my wont these days, I recommended Octavian Nothing and Skellig, and actually got to talk about both briefly. I'm told I didn't embarrass myself, and I'm choosing to believe that; we have neither a working VCR nor TiVo, so I can continue to believe it until someone else provides me with a copy.

But I really popped in here today to recommend that you read this interview with Anderson, who appears to be an alumnus of the same high school as my sister. Small world!