The Areas of My Expertise, a present from my friend Trout (thank you, Trout!), is the funniest book I've read in the last ten years. I'm usually too jaded to react to humor, but this one had me laughing out loud on a crowded Southwest Airlines flight. The Daily Show interview with John Hodgman was what sold me on the book. An MP3 of the 700 hobo names from the book. Gothamist interview and Mediabistro interview. Hodgman's thirteen-part series for McSweeney's. And, hey, there's a book blog, though I appear to be several months late to the party. New Yorkers, I gather, were already aware of Hodgman from the Little Gray Book Lectures.