The wellspring

For eight years, I worked in a science fiction (and comics) shop, Second Foundation Bookstore in Chapel Hill. One of the services that we provided, as a real bookstore, was story ID: "I remember this story about.... Do you know where I can find it?"

Odds were, the story was by Robert Sheckley or William Tenn.

Goodbye, half of the source of all ideas in sf. A generation will remember you, even if they couldn't remember your name.

Say who?

Dave Barry:

You could tell the Saints fans because every few feet they would shout "Who dat.'' This is a system -- similar to the sonar system used by bats -- that enables Saints fans to identify each other by sound when they are too happy [in the sense of "fairly hammered"] to see.

Well earned, I would say. Worth watching the video along with the column.