my kind of map
I found this on campus, scrawled on the cover of a copy of the local independent paper. I love it; it makes me want to play Pictionary. You can see the conversation embedded into the lines.
Cartographer: Okay, here’s the US —
Guy with red pen: — and here’s California!
Cartographer: Then Mexico-Central America-whatever. I can’t draw it. {erases the region}
Then there’s South America.Guy with red pen: Wait, I’m confused.
Cartographer: Well, here’s the Atlantic, and Pacific.. You’ve got Brazil taking up most of the space in the east, and then we have Argentina..
Guy with red pen: {draws tentative arrow}
Cartographer: Stop that. Then, in the west, right under Peru, is Chile. It’s long and skinny. And I’m from here — right in the middle. See?
Guy with red pen: Your map looks like a drawing of unhealthy human organs.
Cartographer. Shut up. Let’s go. It’s time for class.
Bravo (stands up and claps wildly) I LOVED this post. Especially this part:
“I can’t draw it. {erases the region}
Then there’s South America.”
Loved this post. And I especially loved the fact that when I first saw it, I thought it was a poor drawing by someone giving an anatomy lesson AND that Guy with Red Pen went on later to say the same thing. 🙂
Hey, when I was in traveling many years ago, I liked to ask snotty Europeans to draw maps of the US since they couldn’t believe I didn’t have a clear geographic understanding of Europe.
They usually drew some awesome blob that featured CA, TX, NY, FL … and looked something like the NA here, only with only four states.