700 Hobo Names: A New Thanksgiving Tradition!
John Hodgman is best known as a reporter for The Daily Show and as the PC in the cute PC vs. Mac TV ads. Before all this, he wrote a funny book called Areas of My Expertise. One of the chapters listed 700 hobo names. This formed the basis of a performance of him reading the names with guitar accompaniment by Jonathan Coulton. Here's the recording.
Just when you thought this story couldn't get any weirder...
A group of artists took it upon themselves to create illustrations for all 700 hoboes. Find them here.
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