the co-moderator of the conference said he believed Talese’s understanding of the question was whether he was inspired by any female journalists when he was cutting his teeth in the industry in the ‘50's and ‘60's—as opposed to whether he has ever been inspired by women writers.

I’m sure that you are okay, and you are indeed talented, but you’re not publishing books on the national and international level of Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, or Hunter S. Thompson.

He’s an 84 year old white man whose heyday was the 1960's.

Tivo had a really good running-gag prank full of great one-liners that I didn’t notice until tonight:

Due to internet, April Fool’s Day has made me tired and paranoid. I imagine you are now going back to yelling at those punk kids on your lawn.

I’m fairly certain that soccer in Europe is what Americans call football. So, to use British terminology, he’s probably just some punter.

I was thinking we were going to see short shorts:

It can make you gag.

... this guy?

Either that or saying something suave as the new spokesperson for Old Spice.

How did you get my cat?!?

Yeah, I did a lot of “running away from bears” when I lived there.

I was going to give you a cat picture, but you deserve something more special.

This is backwards, and there is a mathematical proof that shows this to be fact.

Awesome! I knew of that, but didn’t know I had it on there.

I still have my copy of “New Hope” taped from TV in the early ‘80's. We kids used to watch it on long road trips using a crazy rig in the back of an ‘83 Suburban while the parents drove.

I read that as “menstruation stigmata,” which didn’t make sense at first, then briefly did make sense, then didn’t again, and now I’m just writing it our here because WTFN.

You woke me right up!

They had to know. What a different and strange era. I don’t think that would fly a decade earlier or today.