zoë stagg

It’s a famous as the “decorative gourd season” post, and equally relevant to my interests – “Aquaman, King of the Seven Seas….” It just turned EIGHT, which qualifies it for InternAARP, and yet it’s fiiiine. Worth a revisit.

First off, I don’t talk to them. OK?

That’s, like, the first thing. Let’s start there.

It’s not like I’m all, Hey, Peter Pufferfish, what’s up? and he’s all, Yo, nothing much, brah.

I knew about the piece before I realized who’d written it – and added him to my League of Extraordinary Nicheman, those whose laser-pointed expertise makes me a big fan. The League already includes: Paul Lukas; Paco Underhill; Stefan Fatsis among others. They’re not just people I like to read, they’re people I fan because of what they know.

In no instance in The League, do I actually add entrants for subject matter. Glen does comic books. I mean, I had an impressive collection of Family Circus paperbacks in my first decade, but… It’s the very act of knowing one subject very, very well that makes someone fascinating.

And in Glen Weldon’s case, it’s because he’s made me actually laugh more than any other person this calendar year. His sense of humor unmercifully haughty and heady and not a little peevish and it’s perfect.

More impressively, he can make me laugh even when discussing that little half page that describes the typeset of a book. Excuse me while I update my blog font to “Ye Oldey Navel Gaze.” It is too funny, you just had to be there.

His twitter is good, but he’s even better in audio. Bonus, it’s Friday! PCHH day.

• 08/15/14