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Hey, I'm not always open when someone approaches me out of the blue - depends on the situation and person.

I've always enjoyed Dirda's reviews. I don't pick up on everything - he's much more widely and deeply read than I - but he has an enthusiasm that I appreciate.

Unfortunately, newspapers seem to be dying out. As that happens, the people who edit them seem to be less competent and the writers seem to be less competent and interesting. Sad, but to be expected, I guess.

Good deal for you and for whoever bought it.

May the New Year be rewarding for us all!

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My contribution went in the mail this morning. Once again, many thanks to Jim for providing a place for all of us to hang out.

Bayless and Stephen A. are an over the hill vaudeville act that should be retired - and would be, if not for the fact that the American sports public is even more ignorant than the American public at large.

Fluff article - as usual with The Times. Written and published just to fill in empty space.

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Unbelievable. $70,000 is nothing to him. Like maybe $70 to the rest of us. He's not a repeat offender because he's gone two years without being fined or suspended, even though he's been fined 8 times and suspended once for two games prior to that. The NFL is a joke.

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P.G. Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves

Have you read his Bleeding London? I've been meaning to read that forever (and moved it like 4 times). I think I'll finally get to it this spring. I'm also taking a bit of break from the serious stuff and am reading Lauren Beukes' Zoo City, which is sort of a future fantasy novel where people who commit terrible crimes are paired up with animal familiars -- and are then ostracized. It is notable mostly for being set in Hillbrow, South Africa. The set-up is hard to swallow, but it moves along quickly. Looking at a list of his novels, it appears that the only one I've read is A Knot Garden. I enjoyed that one much more than The City Under the Skin. The City Under the Skin has a cartoon-like quality to it which doesn't appeal to me.

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Ndamukong Suh was suspended for one playoff game after he stepped on Aaron Rodgers' leg twice during yesterday's game. They should just kick him out of the league permanently. Players get hurt easily enough without a bum like him doing what he does.

Interesting that The N.Y. Times magazine, in its year end remembrances of those who passed away in 2014, included only Pete Seeger of all the people mentioned in this thread. They included some fairly obscure folks, at least imo. I guess I live in a different world than the editors of The Times live in. I'm happy to be where I am.

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Geoff Nicholson: The City Under the Skin I've read a couple of other Nicholson novels which were ok, but this one wasn't worth the time I spent reading it.

In P.G. Wodehouse's Right Ho, Jeeves: chandler - a retail dealer in specified goods or equipment. It might be a word that's used more regularly in the U.K., but not here in the U.S.

Thanks for posting the link.