Signifier, signed...

"May I have my autograph?"

2012-01-25T11:32:00.000-06:00

Welcome, Minneapolis Star Tribune readers!

Paul Schmelzer not signed by Jimmy Carter

2011-01-06T13:39:00.000-06:00

I realize it's an unusual request, but something tells me Jimmy Carter didn't even get the chance to nix this idea...

"Paul Schmelzer" not signed by Stephen Colbert

2010-04-08T13:17:00.002-06:00

My world's all topsy-turvy: Rep. Michele Bachmann, the conservative Republican whose values are almost entirely divergent from my own, agreed to sign my name, but Stephen Colbert, whose entire television persona hinges on borrowing the characteristics of others (namely, O'Reilly-esque conservatives not unlike Bachmann) won't.

You'll notice he did use the blank space where the date's supposed to go to sign his own name though. Maybe that's most fitting.

RIP "Granny D"

2010-03-09T22:20:00.001-06:00

Dorris Haddock, 1910-2010

2010-02-20T09:31:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Wolfgang Puck

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Rep. Michele Bachmann

2010-02-16T13:21:00.004-06:00

Minnesota's own signs my name.

2009-12-01T22:49:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Dan Castellaneta

(voice of Homer Simpson, Krusty, Barney Gumbel, others)

RIP Merce Cunningham

2009-07-27T09:18:00.002-06:00

Famed dancer, choreographer and cultural icon Merce Cunningham, who participated in this project very early on, passed away Sunday in Manhattan at age 90.

2009-07-20T08:45:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Jenny Holzer

2009-05-05T18:51:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Jonathan Lethem

I met Jonathan Lethem, who wrote popular novels like Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, at a reading at the now-defunct St. Paul bookstore Ruminator. He gamely signed my my name in his novel Amnesia Moon before putting his own John Hancock on the first page of Fortress of Solitude. I didn't mention that the first-edition, ensleeved in cellophane, was checked out from the Minneapolis Public Library. (What does it mean that a collectively owned book was enhanced in value by the author's signature? It's not like anyone can cash in on it.)

2009-04-25T18:36:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Ed Ruscha

2009-01-03T07:46:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Matthew Barney

2008-11-24T09:55:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Errol Morris

Rest in peace

2008-11-01T12:20:00.002-06:00

Studs Terkel (1912-2008)

"Ordinary people..."

2008-09-10T21:34:00.000-06:00

A discussion of this site on Metafilter includes a link to this worthy contribution to the project:

2008-03-27T16:54:00.003-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Daniel Johnston

Homer performs Signifier, Signed...

2008-01-12T13:47:00.000-06:00

Sort of. Reader Daniel writes in that in The Simpson's tenth season (episode 13), Homer gets a taste of fame when a hero in the TV show Police Cops is named Homer Simpson. In a moment of meta-celebrity, his coworker Karl asks for his autograph:

KARL: Oh, can I get your autograph, Mr. Simpson, sir?

HOMER: Sure, what's your name?

KARL: Homer, we've worked together for ten years.

HOMER: (silence)

KARL: It's Karl.

HOMER (signs the paper and slides it over)

KARL: Homer, this is MY name... I wanted yours.

HOMER: Take it or leave it... (glances down at the paper) ... Karl.

Apparently this episode -- originally aired in February 1998, several years before I started this project -- captured the attention of media studies scholars. SIMILE (Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education), a University of Toronto Press journal, published the esssay "Homer Simpson explains our postmodern identity crisis, whether we like it or not: Media literacy after 'The Simpsons'" in a 2001 issue.

The autograph sequence is a quick mention in the essay's discussion of Homer's identity crisis: Watching Police Cops, he (a fictional character himself) identifies with the heroics of the television character who shares his name. Brief fame quickly dissolves when the show's creators turn "Homer Simpson" into a dundering oaf and a laughingstock to both cops on the show and members of Homer's "real-life" community. Distressed at the turn of events, and no longer wishing to see himself (or be seen) in the character, he (in a truly meta moment) tells a crowd, "Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you gentleman, but you seem to have me confused with a character in a fictional show."

The connection here? Dan Castellaneta, the real person who voices the fictional Homer Simpson, signed my signature -- which is about as valuable as Homer's is to Karl -- for this project.

2008-01-04T20:11:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by J.Otto Seibold, author of Olive the Other Reindeer

I met J.Otto years ago when he was doing an illustration project at the Walker Art Center; when I hit him up for this project he also threw in a sticker sheet featuring some of his characters.

2008-01-02T18:27:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Noam Chomsky

While I obtained this signature through the mail, I did have an opportunity to meet the famed linguist, scholar, and author several years ago. When my turn came to shake his hand, the question I'd prepared--about neoliberal economics or East Timor or somesuch--evaporated from my mind, replaced by the blurted confession: "I named my dog after you!"

Best Blogs mention

2008-01-02T10:54:00.000-06:00

This site earned a spot on "The Best Homegrown Blogs" list in METRO magazine, according to commenter Leigha at local placeblog MNspeak. Thanks!

Earlier: Kudos from Yahoo Picks, The Morning News, the Rochester Post-Bulletin and others.

2007-12-30T13:58:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer not signed by Barbara Kingsolver

2007-12-29T14:07:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Julie Mehretu

2007-12-28T13:02:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine

2007-09-15T21:01:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Jeff Tweedy

2007-09-13T23:05:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Studs Terkel

The only honor greater than having this legendary interviewer sign my name would be meeting him in person and spending an hour with my tape recorder running...

2007-08-29T08:34:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Frank Gehry

Quoted

2007-08-15T18:18:00.000-06:00

[A] graduating class of high school kids was asked what they wanted to be, and something like three-quarters of them answered that they want to be famous. I mean, as if that were a career. Famous for what didn't occur to them.

— Salman Rushdie, quoted in Mother Jones

2007-08-01T06:34:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Brian Swimme

2007-07-26T06:43:00.001-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Doris "Granny D" Haddock

At 96, Doris Haddock has a lifetime of activism behind her, from community organizing in New Hampshire to anti-nuclear protest, and likely much more to come. But her walk across America in 1999 -- at age 89 -- is her claim to fame. She put on walking shoes and trod 3,200 miles to raise awareness of the corrupting effect of soft money in politics. Her final 100 miles, during a snowstorm that blocked roads in Washington, D.C., was on skis. In 2003 and 2004, she made a 23,000 mile tour of swing states, encouraging first-time, women, and low-income voters to exercise -- bad pun -- their rights. I mailed her to get this signature shortly after I saw her bring a 10,000-person crowd to its feet in a rally at Minneapolis' Target Center for Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader in 2000.

2007-07-19T08:38:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Edward O. Wilson

2007-07-15T13:43:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Alan Berliner

Unless you saw the recent HBO broadcasts of the documentary Wide Awake, you might not know filmmaker Alan Berliner. But his ideas, which I first encountered during his 2002 residency at the Walker Art Center, had a huge influence on the early stages of this project. I'd been asking celebrities to sign my John Hancock for a year or two when the Walker screened his film The Sweetest Sound. After seeing it, I knew I couldn't not ask him to participate.

The sweetest sound, of course, is that of our own name, a seemingly proprietary tag that's just ours, but in the film, he tracks down a dozen other Alan Berliners from across the world -- a Belgian filmmaker, a lawyer from Ohio, an LA-based celebrity photographer -- and invites them over for dinner. It's a great reflection on how our names are carriers of embedded history and personal worth. And Berliner's obsessive research into his own name, comically thorough to the point of being egotistical (to good effect), helped make me OK with the me, me, me nature of Signifier, signed...

2007-07-10T07:01:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Charlie Daniels

There's probably very little Charlie Daniels and I would agree on -- he hates Democrats, loves Bush (a "true Christian"), decries "illegals," and supports the war in Iraq -- except, perhaps, for the shared appreciation of the country fiddle. But he was nice enough to sign my name.

2007-07-09T12:28:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Tanya Donelly

The onetime Belly lead singer, former Throwing Muse, and solo artist signed this one on a First Avenue drink receipt after her show in Minneapolis in 2002.

2007-07-08T12:26:00.001-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Fats Domino

Return to sender

2007-07-07T16:48:00.000-06:00

In over six years, I've mailed letters to more than 400 celebrities. Of those, around 70 have complied with my request -- that they sign my name. Another two dozen offered signatures when I met them in person, at book signings or concerts, lectures or art openings. The hard part of this project, as any real autograph collector knows, is finding legitimate addresses for celebs: Actors change agents frequently, post office forwarding orders expire, elderly starlets wanting a little peace (I'm talking about you, Shirley Temple) return unopened letters emblazoned with text indicating as much.

In looking over stacks of returned request letters, I noticed slight variations in the return-to-sender rubber stamps. How'd the pointing finger become the universal symbol for this? Isn't it a tad rude? I may be reading too much into it -- it's just an administrative stamp applied ad tedium by civil servants -- but in certain instances the accusatory finger seems fitting. A letter sent to Woody Allen came back neurotically marked up with triple fingers, deeply indented hashmarks, and (in case I missed the point) an all-caps notice that the forwarding order had EXPIRED. Another intended for Mr. T. came back unopened. His "I pity the foo'!" catchphrase was always delivered down the barrel of an outstretched index finger.

2007-07-02T17:16:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Craig Baldwin

2007-07-01T15:20:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Robert Wilson

2007-06-08T22:42:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Laurie Anderson

I got this one in person in the green room of the Walker Art Center's theater, while Anderson was waiting for a sound check before her 2002 solo performance Happiness.

2007-04-04T06:21:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Kalle Lasn.

2007-03-28T16:55:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Billy Bragg.

2007-03-08T12:31:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer not signed by Fred Rogers

The late Mr. Rogers was contractually prohibited from signing my heterograph, but his representative kindly forwarded a Xeroxed article on the worth of his signature.

Autograph Ink

2007-03-03T13:32:00.000-06:00

Slowly Signifier/Signed is getting some attention. Thanks to the sites who have linked me up:

• Brian Cubbison of the Syracuse, NY, Post-Standard files it under "Unclear on the concept, but cool in a weird way."

• The Morning News throws up a link.

• Yahoo Picks offered a nice write-up in January.

• "I love this one," says The Rochester, MN, Post Bulletin.

• Art blogger Leslie K. Brown has a nice writeup, spotlighting Annie Sprinkle's contribution to the project.

• PlaceboKatz, another excellent artblog, picks up on what may be a flaw in the plan: "Most of the signatures come as highrez pictures, ideal too sign your cheques."

2007-02-19T13:28:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Wim Wenders

2007-02-13T08:14:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Dave Brubeck

2007-02-12T13:53:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer not signed by Ray Charles

2007-02-11T13:41:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Winona LaDuke

When I mailed Anishinaabe activist and Green Party vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke in 2001 to ask for her signature, I was most impressed by what she had to say as Ralph Nader's 2000 running mate. Since then, though, I've come to know her work in sustainability, efforts to reclaim native lands, and indigenous food production. Last spring, I visited her at the White Earth Land Recovery Project, the NGO she founded in west central Minnesota, to interview her for the book Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (Cornerhouse 2006). She spoke of omaa aaking, the "instructions" the Anishinaabe abide by in their relationship to land, her tribe's plans to continue growing and selling sustainably produced coffee and maple syrup, and the White Earth Ojibwe's efforts to develop alternative fuel systems. A wonderful thinker, I left with an excellent interview. I didn't, however, mention this project or the signature I'd procured through the anonymity of US Mail years before.

2007-01-30T05:47:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Julian Bond

Former head of the NAACP, founding member of SNCC, first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and a professor soon to retire from the University of Virginia's history department, Julian Bond offered a signature, plus a plug for his father-in-law's restaurant in St. Paul, the Copper Dome.

2007-01-30T05:40:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Gaylord Nelson

Another name you might not know, the late Gaylord Nelson was a progressive US Senator from Wisconsin, advisor to the Wilderness Society, and—most importantly—the founder of Earth Day.

2007-01-27T09:24:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Annie Sprinkle

Pornstar-turned-artist Annie Sprinkle's most famous work was "Public Cervix Announcement," in which she invited people to take a gander at her cervix, assisted by a speculum, and comment into a microphone for an audience to hear. Whether "demystifying female sexuality" or sticking it to the male gaze-rs, her confrontational work riled people like Jesse Helms during the culture wars of the '80s and '90s. She's no longer in vogue in the art world, but she keeps plugging along (ahem) with her sex-positive porn.

2007-01-27T08:55:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer not signed by Trey Anastasio

2007-01-26T18:53:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Maya Lin

2007-01-23T06:47:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer not signed by Tom Clancy

Mr. Clancy would have no part in my shenanigans.

2007-01-23T06:38:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Mark Hosler (Negativland)

2007-01-21T21:24:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Spalding Gray

2007-01-21T16:11:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Isabel Allende

2007-01-17T08:36:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Peter Bogdanovich

I caught up with director Peter "The Last Picture Show" Bogdanovich at the opening reception for the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival and, amid the din of mingling film buffs, explained my project. He didn't get it (maybe he couldn't hear me), but nonetheless agreed, on one condition: I had to offer my back as his writing table.

2007-01-12T06:49:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Kwesi Mfume

2007-01-11T17:50:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Sen. Paul Wellstone

My first year in college, fresh from small-town Wisconsin, I found myself in the audience as a squatty gesticulating guy, a former wrestler and college professor, spoke excitedly on stage about single-payer healthcare, a radical idea that turned out to be ten or more years before its time. On his way to becoming one of Minnesota's most beloved senators, Paul Wellstone became quite familiar with the role of being an early and independent voice on many issues: he opposed both Iraq wars and accurately predicted the outcomes we're now facing in Iraq. But he truly was a representative, stepping up to speak on behalf of groups including immigrants, farmers and veterans. While conservatives derided him as ultra-left, he famously--and accurately, as I see it--said he represented the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party."

When he died in a plane crash days before the 2002 election, an already scheduled anti-war rally turned into a 10,000-person strong moving memorial. I was there, amid nuns and Hmong leaders, Veterans for Peace marchers and farm workers, Somali activists and baby boomers.

Understand the depth of the grief on the street that day and you'll understand why, even now, you can find the senator's name spelled out on that iconic green background followed by an optimistic exclamation on more than a few bumperstickers and yard signs across Minnesota:

Wellstone!

At the time I wrote him asking for his signature, I wasn't quite as enamored. The memory of him signing the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 was still fresh (in his memoir, he said that's the one vote he regretted). But then he died, pro-war Republican Norm Coleman was elected to his seat, and a siege on Baghdad followed. And here we are.

Unlike the other signatures in this project, which are stacked together in a special box, Wellstone's autograph, and the simple post-it that accompanied it--a jotted "Good luck"--reside in a plastic sleeve, protected like some kind of relic. With so few politicians to admire the way I did Paul Wellstone, maybe that's what they are.

2007-01-09T18:38:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed ("several times") by Henry Rollins

2007-01-09T17:58:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as sigend by Edward James Olmos

2007-01-09T06:57:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Thurston Moore

I've met Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and the other members of Sonic Youth a few times through work (most recently this summer), but I got both their signatures through the mail, perhaps in hopes they'd not connect the dots from my wacky side project to my somewhat upstanding day job. But I do admire them both--as well as SY's Lee Ranaldo--for their fearlessness in music, their embrace of experimental art, and their many (and sometimes wacky) side projects.

2007-01-09T06:48:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer not signed by Robert Redford
(Although he did include a pre-signed color 3x5 of himself)

2007-01-08T22:58:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Jesse Ventura

Obtained via mail while he was still Minnesota's governor, I figured he had to sign: I'm a constituent!

2007-01-08T22:32:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by James Brown?

The Godfather of Soul (God rest his soul) either signed my name with James Brownesque flourish--Heh!!--or he signed his own name. My money's on the latter.

2007-01-08T22:29:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer, not signed by Mikhail Baryshnikov

2007-01-08T19:25:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Henry Louis Gates

2007-01-08T19:05:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Kim Gor don

2007-01-08T07:08:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Pat Buchanan

2007-01-06T14:57:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Bonnie Blair

2007-01-04T20:51:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Dan Savage

2007-01-01T18:34:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Abigail "Dear Abby" van Buren

2007-01-01T18:32:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by David Sedaris

2006-12-29T18:37:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Merce Cunningham

Considering he's turning 88 this year, it's easy to overlook the fact that the "greatest living choreographer" misspelled my name.

2006-12-26T10:59:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Cameron Sinclair

My brother, an architect interested in sustainable design, and I interviewed British-born architect Cameron Sinclair this Spring at a noisy dive bar in the University of Minnesota neighborhood known as Dinkytown. Over greasy fries and through the din of Dookie-era Green Day, he told us about Architecture for Humanity, the world's largest--and first--humanitarian architecture group, and how thousands of volunteer designers around the world have built culturally sensitive, aesthetically healing, and environmentally sound housing for victims of tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes. I'm especially fond of his plans for an "open-source architecture network," a way for architects to get paid for their work while offering free blueprints in the developing world to be modified as local conditions dictate.

While you may not know Cameron, I post him early in the blog in hopes that you will. For more, check out the book he edited for AfH, aptly titled, Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises. Our interview also appears in the Royal Society of Art's book Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (December 2006).

2006-12-24T10:22:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling's CV runs the gamut: prolific science fiction writer, Wired blogger, founder of the green-design "movement" Viridian, etc. But I'm a latecomer: my first taste of his writing was his recent nonfiction book Shaping Things, about how industrial designers can help our environmental woes by making truly transparent products that can be metatagged to make evident their chemical makeup, can be geo-tracked from store shelf to dump, and perhaps give us a new relationship to "stuff" (Sterling dubs this "the internet of things.")

I met him in March 2006 when he and Rirkrit Tiravanija were speaking at the Walker Art Center. On the left side you can see Bruce's tracings on a previous page: an outline of his hand with the note, "For Paul Schmelzer and his Moleskine notebook."

2006-12-24T10:07:00.000-06:00

Paul Schmelzer as signed by Rirkrit Tiravanija

While I've met and mailed big-name celebrities for this project, it's the people lesser known to the general public that have most influenced me--the Paul Wellstones, Jeff Tweedys, and Noam Chomskys of the world (it's worth noting, some people--like rightwing politician Pat Buchanan--make the list because how they've negatively influenced me. Or pushed me toward opposite aspirations than their own). Case in point, Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Celebrated for art dubbed "relational aesthetics," Tiravanija is a Thai artist whose work--a little like this project--prizes social interaction over art objects. I've written on his work many times (here, here, and here), and an interview we did together appears in the just-published book Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (Royal Society of Arts, UK). While Rirkrit has achieved a lot in the art world, including a 2004 Hugo Boss Prize, what impresses me about him is that it's the way he lives, not what he produces, that makes him an artist.

I got this signature over dinner at the Walker Art Center this spring, where Tiravanija and futurist/author Bruce Sterling were giving a talk.

Hello, my name is...

2006-12-22T19:00:00.004-06:00

Paul Schmelzer, as signed by Yoko Ono

Many years ago I had lunch with an 8-year-old named Spencer and his father, Ron. We were at an outdoor restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin, and one of that town’s favorite sons, jazz musician Ben Sidran, sat at a nearby table. Ron urged Spencer—who has Asperger’s Syndrome, a milder form of autism—to get Sidran’s autograph, and Sidran, accustomed to such requests, gladly obliged. But when he handed the autograph back to the boy, Spencer scolded,

“Not your name. Mine!”

After regaining his composure, the musician scribbled out his own name and rewrote the boy’s.

Four or five years ago, inspired by Spencer’s impromptu deconstruction of celebrity, I began asking artists, writers and political figures to sign my autograph, either in person or through letters. A simple enough premise, my intention was to both critique celebrity (what does it mean that Yoko Ono signed the name of a complete unknown? And is there any value to that signature?) and celebrate those who have shaped my beliefs, by either their positive or negative examples (Studs Terkel versus, say, rightwing politician Michele Bachmann ).

I’ve pondered what these responses might mean to me (it’s zenlike, this repetition of my name; it’s egotistical; it’s a transfer of energy from those I respect to me; it's a bit like the mantra-like repetition of a graffiti writer's tag; it fits into an art historical context alongside explorations by Richard Prince, Bruce Conner, Alan Berliner, and others), but always return to this simple belief: the autographs stand alone and don’t need all this intellectual justification.

More than 70 celebrities so far have contributed to the project, and another 40 either didn’t understand it, and signed their own names (Robert Redford, the late great James Brown), or left the autograph business to their handlers, who mail out preprinted 8x10s (a rare response: Mikhail Baryshnikov, took the time to write “Not interested. Thank you.”—a full four syllables longer than my name).

Last summer, I had the chance to meet the painter Chuck Close. When I asked him to sign my name on a poster featuring his 1968 Big Self-Portrait, he gamely agreed, but later in the day, during a signing session, he forgot and signed his own name. Funny to be disappointed to get a famous artist's autograph.

Those who have participated include some who have passed on (Sen. Paul Wellstone, Spalding Gray, Earth Day founder and US Sen. Gaylord Nelson), high-profile artists and architects (Matthew Barney, Frank Gehry, Maya Lin, Laurie Anderson), performers (Kim Gordon, Dave Brubeck, Henry Rollins), filmmakers (Peter Bogdanovich, Wim Wenders, Errol Morris), a few infamous politicos (Pat Buchanan, Jesse Ventura), and even the voice of Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta). Eventually, I hope to turn the project into, naturally, an autograph book.

Or would that be a biograph book?

Stick around as I chronicle my progress.