Good Lord! is this the road that Jonah went?

Good evening, whenever you are. Welcome to a SECRET SOCIETY.

First, the biz, in three parts.

PART THE ONE:

JOSH GONDELMAN, JEAN GRAE, and RUBY LAKS and I return to Union Hall THIS THURSDAY and the final tickets are HERE.

PART THE TWO:

There are TWO and only TWO more of these Union Hall shows ever, and tickets for those are now available in the SECRET ROOM and will be made universally available SOON.

PART THE THREE:

JESSE THORN and I are appearing at the Coolidge Corner Theater on June 11. And tickets are HERE.

And if you don’t know who RUBY LAKS is, correct that now:

Now the title of this message of course comes from MOBY DICK, specifically Ishmael’s description of the mouth cavity of the Right Whale.

Ishmael has lots to say about the difference between the head of the Right Whale and that of the Sperm Whale (hint: one looks like a whale, while the other looks like a deformed, barnacle encrusted monster made of inner tubes by an insane god).

But is his name Ishmael, or not? Who is this guy? We discuss that in the SECRET ROOM, and I also read to you two chapters of MOBY DICK in a bad Maine accent as well.

But before you ascend the stairs, you may listen to me talk more about Jonahs and boat shit HERE ON BLANK CHECK.

It was a deep and deeply anxiety producing honor to be asked to guest on their episode covering MASTER AND COMMANDER.

(And it has been deeply mortifying to realize that I referred to the HMS Surprise as a “Ship of the line” when in fact it was a frigate. Please whales: eat me to death now).

On that episode I also mention our friend Lola in Maine, the teenager who made my WHY KNOT? hat in the picture above (for which I receive DAILY COMPLIMENTS)

Lola hand makes her line of nautical-disaster-themed hats and tees called SHIP HAPPENS, and she would like to sell you stuff. So please find her catalogue below, and write to her via: Shiphappensbrooklin@gmail.com