Great recommendation, Cookie. The hat essay is here, with a ream of other good stuff. http://www.missioncreep.com…

The proper Daniel Stern vehicle will always be a bicycle.

Duran Duran did cover it, though, on the widely execrated Thank You.

AleaThory.

[Picks guitar] "For a long time, I used to get to bed early…"

The etymology of nostalgia is even better than that, and more appropriate. Algos does mean pain or grief, but nostos is a voyage home. You could translate it literally as "homesickness."