Gratituitous further plug for Tom Tomorrow's live appearances on the west coast this week: Book Soup in West Hollywood on Tuesday, Booksmith in SF on Wednesday, Stacey's in SF and Cody's in Berkeley on Thursday, and the Elliot Bay Bookstore in Seattle on Friday.

He's an old friend and it's fun to do Sparky's voice (as I did at a Barnes & Noble here in NYC tonight), but I'd never seen him appearing live.  Worth seeing.  The cartoons are cool, hearing some of the backstory of how they came into being is cooler, and his honesty and sense of humor in the Q&A is coolest of all.  Also, the book is gorgeous.

Also, a hey to readers of this blog who said hi tonight when you realized it was me.  That was cool.  Really enjoyed it.

I can't be at the rest of Dan's run -- I've got my own book to keep mothering into existence, and that's getting more exciting by the day, honestly -- but you can.  So if you're around, go.