Peeing in Lake Wobegon  If anyone in Lit 6 fails to get a laugh,
Geoff Herbach and Sam Osterhout (second and third from left)
start lopping off fingers with a katana. Apparently, the last
show went well. Sean Smuda  Geoff Herbach flips open his Mac on
a beer-strewn table at Bryant-Lake Bowl. "I'm going to request
your friendship as a real person now," he announces, before
sending me an official MySpace friend request. We're two feet
apart from one another and staring into glowing LCD screens.
Gathering friends in cyberspace has superseded boring real-life
chitchat.  Without speaking to him, I respond, "I accept your
virtual friendship as a real person!" with a simple click.  Sam
Osterhout, Herbach's partner in the Lit 6 Project, thinks this
friend-collecting episode is great. He leans over, places his
fist in Herbach's bespectacled face, and bumps knuckles with
him, which reduces Herbach to shivers.  "He knows I hate that,"
he says. "He loves to shame me."  Herbach has two personalities:
one, his corporeal se