my kind of map

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.

3 Comments

  1. cardiogirl on April 2, 2008 at 6:13 am

    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.”



  2. regina on April 2, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    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. 🙂



  3. heyskinny on April 4, 2008 at 9:59 am

    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.