Some of us will be heading down to the 9th Annual San Francisco Book Fair the weekend of March 13th. We’ll have the usual assortment of books, the new Sandman cd, and a whole mess of free posters and stickers. We will also debut the newest installment of a serial project that won’t be announced here until after the book fair—but until then, here are two hints: it is 21,000 words long and has been two and a half years in the making. And we’ll have a bunch of them. See you there!

For those who haven’t stumbled onto them yet, here are direct links to two new essays: Forget Terrorism: The Hijacking of Reality dealing with the events following the 9/11 attacks, and You Are Under Surveillance, about modern ceramic kitchenware.