If you saw the interview with John Hodgman in this month’s issue of Wired magazine, be sure and go to the web site and see the much longer version, which includes everything from comparative literature to Bruce Campbell. (The magazine version appears in its entirety on the first page; click on “next” or the number “2″ at the bottom of the page to start reading the expanded version.)

I meant to link to McSweeney’s earlier this month; every year on 9/11, they link to a really, really good transcript of remarks Hodgman made at a book reading two weeks after the attack.

Hodgman, a former book editor (he was responsible for getting Campbell’s memoir published), is best known today as an author; for being The Daily Show’s “resident expert John Hodgman”; and for playing the part of “PC” in those Apple ads.

Microsoft’s new ad campaign managed to root up a MS employee who looks and sounds sort of like Hodgman, and they shoot him from a distance to maximize the effect.

Hodgman is also on Twitter.

From McSweeney’s, the untold story of H.P. Lovecraft’s days working for the Whitman’s Sampler people:

Nut Cluster Crunch

This eerie candy will test the sanity of all but those who possess the strongest of constitutions. Strange congeries of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios dance hypnotically within, promising to reveal their eldritch secrets to anyone foolish enough to take a bite of these ancient nut clusters!

Be sure and read the rest of it.

My NCAA bracket is faring poorly so far. Perhaps I should have sought the advice of a college basketball expert.

Like Ernest Hemingway.

If you thought the Mitchell Report on steroids in baseball was bad … have you heard about the parts they left out?