A ways back when me and Snafu were making “A Miraculous Kind Of Machine”, I was going around with a little “tape” recorder, collecting audio for a series of skits that never ended up making it to the album. I was asking people “If you could build a machine, any kind of machine, what kind of machine would you build? And what would it do?”

I had the good fortune during that time of meeting Junot Diaz. If you don’t know him, dude is kind of a genius. He wrote “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” and “Drown”, which are both classics to me.

Anywho, Mr. Diaz was kind enough to indulge me, and this was his answer to my question / humanity’s question (please note how he doesn’t pause at all before he describes his machine):

Peace on earth, and goodwill towards everyone. Happy holidays from all of us at Modern Shark. 2012 is going to be a big year, more on that soon soon soon.