Oh, the urbanity!

Even though we subscribe to the magazine, Seattlest did not know until late last week that the New Yorker is doing a college tour. Another sign of print advertising's doom, or sheer laziness on our part? You make the call.

We're sharing this with you, dear readers, because tomorrow through Thursday the New Yorker College Tour will spend some time at the UW.

Had we known about the tour sooner, we might've come up with some excuse to skip work and attend the New Yorker cartoonists' seminar tomorrow at noon at the HUB. We'd like to ask Matthew Diffee, Edward Koren, and Victoria Roberts why, exactly, our captions are being overlooked in the magazine's weekly contest, when they're obviously superior to any of the ones that win.

Other New Yorker events that don't involve our ego: senior editor Hendrik Hertzberg (whose book Politics we highly recommend) speaks tomorrow night at 6; writers Mark Danner and George Packer discuss the future of Iraq Wednesday at noon; and humorists Andy Borowitz, Bruce McCall, and David Owen discuss "writing funny" (and perhaps thinking different) Thursday at 6.

Visit the College Tour website for complete details, and note that all events are first come, first seated. So get there early, groupies of Andy Borowitz.