Timothy "Speed" Levitch lives in Kansas City now. But he got his fame from doing tours of New York City, which were eccentric and poetic and slightly uncomfortable. I think. (I've never been on one.)

This is the gentleman who's coming to Seattle this summer for Seattle Art Fair, to do neighborhood tours in two spoken dialects—Lunar French and Martian English—that were developed by the LA artist Glenn Kaino.

Yes. You read that right. Where do we sign up?