Media: Going Back To High School (To High School, To High School)

Thanks to new reader ED for passing along this blog (Todd vs High School) about a 33 year-old sports journalist Todd Gallagher, who's going back to high school and writing a book about it 

He's not doing it incognito as in Fast Times At Ridgemont High.  He's not just taking a math class like Michael Alison Chandler did for the Post last year.  He's apparently going whole hog (assuming you're still allowed to use that phrase).  He says he was inspired by the comedy Billy Madison. And a high school in Pittsburgh apparently is letting him. 

Sure, it's stunt journalism -- the guy's last book was about staging various strange sports contests (Andy Roddick with a frying pan, etc.) and he compares himself to George Plimpton.  He doesn't seem to have liked high school the first time around.  He's not even doing his own blog.  (He's hired a writer to keep it up for him.)  But he seems entrepreneurial and (annoyingly) irreverent and the book will probably be read by a lot of people -- maybe more than a serious book.  And it's on tumblr, which might be my new favorite blog software (esp. since the new Typepad is messing me up so badly).