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I've mentioned my continued respect for John Hodgman on here once or twice before, and it has been reminded to me today as I read this interview with Peter Hyman.
I was shocked and delighted to read that Hodgman is actually the editor for my absolute favorite part of the New York Times Sunday Magazine (and almost certainly my favorite article of the week in any magazine or newspaper) True Life Tales. The interview primarily focuses on balancing the fiction he delivers in his book (soon to be books) and on The Daily Show with the facts he delivers in The New York Times.

There's also a slightly more broad interview with Hodgman over at the Pheonix in which he discusses mole men, eels, and portraying a PC on those Mac ads.

"Mac has always gotten the design and the interface down pat. They just know it. PC’s efforts to emulate this, and its constant failing, and its self-satisfied arrogance about it being the most used platform in the world, all of that made it very easy to craft a character who, while he is a boob, and often concerned about how he comes off, at his core really feels bad for the Mac. Is really so delusional to believe he’s much cooler than the Mac. The whole reason they’re standing in that white room is because he’s trying to help the Mac out."