WHAT OTHER INTERVIEWS/PUBLICITY HAVE YOU LINED UP? WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS TO MARKET THE BOOK?

JW: Modern Humorist has set up a dedicated website to the book (www.georgewscrapbook.com) which has links to some new material we've done as well as some older, Bush centered humor. You can also sign up for regular emails that George writes, updating everyone on how he thinks things are going. I also have mimes follow me everywhere I go which tends to attract attention, but thus far hasn't done much for the book.

We've done some print and web interviews, and there should be some TV as well. We plan on doing appearances/signings around New York and Chicago and maybe elsewhere as well.

If we can't be interviewed by Katie Couric we'd at least like her to stroke our hair and tell us everything is going to be okay.KG: I don't have mimes following me, but there's usually more than one
insurance investigator back there.

HOW DO YOU THINK THE BOOK WILL DO?

JW: It's a cliche, but I think it's impossible to say. It seems like everyone who sees it likes it and thus far there's a hunger for Bush-related humor. We do think it's a bit different from some of the other humor books out there, and we have the benefit of Modern Humorist promoting the book as much as humanly possible.

Of course, on the other hand, by March, Bush could be on his way to the most successful Presidency in modern memory and we'll get stoned to death for even daring to question his leadership and intelligence.

KG: I hope that people just think funny is funny and that dancing-on-Al-Gore's-metaphorical-grave conservatives will find it just as funny as wishing-a-Pinto-carrying-Ralph- Nader-would-back-into-a-matchstick-factory liberals. Probably not, though.

WHAT IS MODERN HUMORIST'S ROLE IN ALL THIS? WHAT IS YOUR ROLE AT MODERN HUMORIST? AT MCSWEENEY'S?

JW: MH is essentially the Editor/Producer of the book with Kevin and I as the writers and illustrators. It's presented under the auspices of MH. MH staff contributed ideas, many of which ended up in the final version. Mike Colton edited everything.

The Contributing Editor position at MH is largely ceremonial, as Kevin and I just provide content to the website, and travel to New York twice yearly to shave MH senior writer, Noam Weinstein's back.

Pretty much the same thing at McSweeney's, although for McSwy's we also sometimes do some screening of submissions, as well as travelling the country lecturing on proper dental care.