I'm sitting in an airport getting ready to experience the miracle of flight for 23 hours.

If you live in Melbourne, I hope to see you on May 31st. (RSVP here.)

If you live in Sydney, I hope to see you on June 3rd at Kinokuniya at 7 PM.

1. Australia: I'm going there. There will be a reading/discussion/nerdfighter gathering on May 31st in Melbourne (you can book tickets here) and one in Sydney at the bookstore Kinokuniya on the evening on June 3rd. (You can book a spot for that by emailing sydneynerdfighters (at) gmail.com) I am very excited!

2. Bridget Zinn: A lovely YA writer and librarian, Bridget Zinn, has recently been diagnosed with cancer. Writers and editors and kidlit bloggers have come together to auction off some sweet prizes to help Bridget pay for her medical care, and I'm hoping you'll go see what's available and bid bid bid.

3. I am overrated: This is the most totally true and totally fun takedown of me (and to a lesser extent my brother) I have ever seen in my life.

So since Paper Towns won the Edgar Award, I've been wondering what I should do with the bust of Edgar Allan Poe I now own. This video--in which I play Wii with Poe and also waterboard him--is the result of that quest.

(In case you don't follow internet memes, I stole this idea from the brilliant Tyler Oakley.)

My brother Hank and I often say that our ambition in life is to be eccentric thousandaires--people who utilize their limited means to buy hilarity and weirdness in lieu of, say, lawnmowers.

So you can imagine my delight when Justine Larbalestier posted on her wonderfully fantabulous blog that she did not want to learn the lindyhop despite the pleas of her readers.

Justine, you will remember, spearheaded Operation Get John Green to Stand on a Table for Charity, and here I saw a path to payback.

So I offered $1,000 to Justine's charity of choice if she learned the Lindyhop and provided three independent witnesses of Justine Lindyhopping. Since then, almost 200 people have added their voices to the pro-Lindyhop chorus with many offering their own gifts to charity.

AND YET.

And yet, Ms. Larbalestier has been suspiciously silent on the topic ever since. There's no fun in being an eccentric thousandaire if you never get to spend the money because your friends are a bunch of anti-lindyhopping cowards. So if you want to do me a favor, head over to Justine's blog and let her know what we want (lindyhopping) and when we want it (now).

My brother is currently having a birthday.