Here’s a piece, in the Washington Post paper Express, that will have you liking Tomine all the more.

Buddy Holly’s widow is crying, waiting, hoping, and litigating that a new memoir by Peggy Sue (the very one), which Maria Elena Holly says is full of falsehoods, will fade away, and fast.

The Observer has the story.

Martin Schneider writes:
Like most blogs’ comments sections, ours is daily inundated with quizzical and nonsensical appeals of indeterminate origin. Just now I came across this, which I think has a daft poetic integrity all its own:

Greetings!..
There was merrily!
The Regard! The Excellent forum! Thank you!

I feel like taking a bow.

Not really, but Gawker challenges us all as follows: “Gold star for anyone who converts this week’s New Yorker into Diggable headlines.” Emdashes readers, surely you can oblige…but keep it clean!

Matthew Hutson interviews the cartoon editor about why he left experimental psychology, the effect of morbid stimuli on the funny bone (I know “funny bone” is a big ol’ cliché, but suddenly it seems so silly and hilarious to me; have I been exposed to any death imagery lately, or just the usual apocalyptic reverie?), and why he came back to experimental psychology, but with jokes instead of pigeons.

Seymour Hersh will be fêted in Kansas,
While the judge in the Brian Nichols case, whom Jeffrey Toobin wrote about just last week, has been replaced by a judge who’s surely been vetted and therefore less likely to tell curious New Yorker reporters what his stand is.

From an email I just got: “D.A. Pennebaker will appear on Monday, February 4 at the 7:30 and 9:40 shows of DONT LOOK BACK, the cinema verité milestone rockumentary which follows Bob Dylan as he tours England in 1965. Playing through Thursday, February 7 only!” How could you not go?

Those assiduous scamps at The Chicago Manual of Style just put up their latest style Q&A, or, as The New Yorker would say, Q. & A. This is a new category, by the way, for very short posts. It’s named after a Dorothy Parker poem, “Little Words.” Hope you enjoy it, and thanks, supermen!