If you think we’re going to fill up this bit about Michael Palin’s upcoming appearance at Barbara’s Bookstore with blatant references to Monty Python sketches, well, you’re wrong. We wouldn’t dream of mentioning that Palin was an original member of the completely hilarious, values-corrupting, iconoclastic troupe. Now that he’s gone on to live a productive life as an ordinary citizen – acting in films like “A Fish Called Wanda,” doing TV shows about his travel adventures and writing books, like his latest, “Hemingway’s Chair” – we’re not going to bring up SPAM, the dead parrot, the cheese shop or the Argument Clinic. No way. We’ll just say that Palin will be signing copies of his book, which describes the comic adventures of a (gulp) disgruntled postal worker, at Barbara’s Bookstore in Sears Tower at 12:30 p.m. Thursday. You’d better go, or he’ll turn you into a blancmange. You’ve been warned!
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