. . . is the piece that Penn Jillette wrote for NPR’s This I Believe series. It’s a good essay. In fact there are several great essays on the NPR site as part of this series. I wonder if a similar series mightn’t be a good exercise for the WB collective.
Monthly Archive for November, 2005
Check out the front page of today’s NY Times, which displays as prominently as possible, a series of photos of your president, in a way that was previously reserved for SNL and attachments to ‘humorous’ e-mails. I don’t think it’s appropriate, and if he represented me, I’d be offended.
On the other hand, the fact that they ran it confirms that the Bush slide is irreversible
When I was a busboy, I filled the water glasses of legends, true legends like iron man Cal Ripken, Jr. and the greatest quarterback of all time, Johnny Unitas. It was an upscale restaurant with busy nights of constant motion, and the busboy you were teamed with made all the difference in the world. I was often partnered with Gary Messersmith, and both of us sportsmen we had contests all the time. Who could pile the most glasses on that little round tray, stacking high with precarious precision and walking dauntlessly off the dining floor; or who could shoot the most consecutive rolls into a garbage can from an ever-increasing distance; or other contests as easily forgettable. There was that one great contest, though, that would enter the annals of busboy history. Continue reading ‘The Stuff of Legends’
Taking a break from the office move and catching up. First stop, offloading the pics from my cameras to Flickr. I just realized that Flickr has a handy-dandy view by calendar feature. So here are November’s pics.
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