So the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting is taking shape, and it will be very, very awesome. Fun will be had. Books will be discussed. Songs will be sung. Libraries will be celebrated.

HOWEVER!

The logistics of the tour have proven complicated in a kind of Goldberg Machiney way--we need 1. a supportive library that is 2. far enough away from the previous supportive library, but 3. not too far away, and we also need 4. a room with enough space for a bunch of raucous nerdfighters, and 5. we have absolutely no date flexibility, because we are in a different place every day.

Anyway, I am profoundly grateful to the hundreds (really!) of librarians who have emailed me for making this whole thing possible, but there are still a couple places we are trying to go:

WISCONSIN -- Dear, beloved Wisconsin, with your dairy farms and your complex relationship with Brett Favre, with your excellent state college system and underrated art museum. Might there be a library for us on or about Saturday November 15th?

MINNESOTA AND IN PARTICULAR THE TWIN CITIES -- The great state that brought us my cousin-in-law and resident physicist Blake Johnson; that provides the poverty-stricken and underfed Republican party a roof under which they might convene; that wonderful state bursting with lakes and "ya know"! Is there a library who'd want us on, say, Monday November 17th?

Or else possibly SOMEWHERE AROUND KANSAS CITY OR TOPEKA OR SOMETHING?

If you can help, please email sparksflyup --at-- gmail.com

Thanks!