I am reading Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums. On page 25, there is a reference to Ezra Pound being a pretentious nut. Pretentious nut. How simple, but yet what a description in two words. I was itching to use the two-word combination on someone. And like it was…

I have always imagined how Nielsen did its TV ratings. But I would have guessed it would have been easy to count how many tuned into that momentous Sunday afternoon. All you had to do was count the number of surprised-almost-coming-out-of-its-sockets eyeballs around the world. Truly, it was…