Touch My Wiggum

So, after doing righteous battle with the forces of Berkeley traffic heading to a basketball game, theliznach and I got to Cody's Books on Telegraph a 15 minutes late for the author's talk.  What author is awesome enough to get me running from work and fighting traffic you ask?

SARAH FREAKIN' VOWELL!!!!

We had a reading about the sex fiends of the Oneida Colony, the original OC and founders of the present OC, plus a recent column of hers from the NYT.  Made the overflowing crowd giggle muchly.

Then there was the booksigning time.  To the person in front of me she mentioned something about herself by describing an instance of Ralph Wiggum as a bible character complimenting Bart as David with, "I like you because you kill people."

TV geek that I am, I remembered this episode and reminded her that it was because they'd all fallen asleep during one of Reverend Lovejoy's sermons.  We then had another beautiful Wiggum moment where we remembered where Ralph gets squirted by a sun full of fake blood and he says, "I look like cable television."

Ah, Wiggum appreciation.  A sign of a great mind.

And just so you know, waltzingmatthea, there may actually be a fully grown non-pygmy adult more wee than you in the world.