If You Can't Be One, Type Like One
                 April 15, 1997 

      Those darn rockstars are so 
      unpredictable. You never know what
      they're gonna do next. I never expected
      M. Doughty, singer, guitarist and
      lyricist for Soul Coughing, to draw a
      font for me as fast as he did. I guess it
      helps that I have some of the best font
      scouts in the rockstar industry working
      for me. 

      In this case my font scout was Nicole
      Blackman. Nicole tracked down Doughty
      in some hip New York club (probably the
      Knitting Factory where he used to work
      in his pre-rockstar days) and told him
      he had to make a font for me. Then she
      gifted him with some of her homemade
      chocolate truffles. With an offer like
      that, how could any rockstar refuse to
      draw the alphabet?

      The truffles worked their magic, and
      within a week of Nicole telling Doughty
      about my Rockstar Font Project, he
      mailed me an alphabet straight from
      his room at a Radisson in Pittsburgh.
      It's a simple font... bold, clean and
      whimsical, not unlike Doughty's voice.
      It's distinctive and charming, cartoony,
      but not too over-the-top wacky.
      Doughty's penmanship turned out to be
      every bit as playful and endearing as
      his smoke-encrusted voice box.

      I don't know what Doughty wanted his
      font to be named. As easy as it was to
      wrangle up this font, I've found it darn
      near impossible to track the man down
      for an interview regarding the latest
      goings-on in the Soul Coughing world.
      As I hear it from his publicist, he's off
      gallivanting around Europe. Soul
      Coughing is huge in France. All good
      rockstars are huge in France.

      So with Mister Doughty rocking the
      Frenchies, I was left here alone to
      name his font. In honor of the great
      tradition of naming fonts after cities
      (i.e. Monaco, Geneva, Chicago, Shakopee,
      etc.) and also inspired by Doughty's
      ever-present geographical references
      in Soul Coughing songs, I've decided to
      call this font Wichita.

      Wichita was drawn by M. Doughty. It
      was converted to font format by me,
      using my patented Alphabetician's
      Soopersecret Fontmaking
      Technique(tm). In addition to your
      standard ABC's and numbers, this font
      also contains a few special dingbats
      which come in handy as shorthand when
      cranking out Soul Coughing set lists.

      Special characters in this font go like
      this:
      (option-m = "Mister Bitterness")
      (option-s = "Soft Serve")
      (option-b = "Bus")
      (option-w = "White Girl")
      (option-c = "Chicago")

      Enjoy this font and use it often.

      And give me ten dollars.

      Thanks.

      -chank