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Monday, January 22, 2007

Now this is the way to 'Go'..

Art Buchwald. The humor columnist died Wednesday at the age of 81 and managed to be as memorable in death as he was in life--thanks to a New York Times video obituary in which he proclaims, "Hi, I'm Art Buchwald and I just died." He also published a final column, written last February with the instructions that it should not be released until his death. The Washington Post memorializes him, writing that "[H]e brought to daily commentary a touch of wit, a gentle kind of humor and a brave willingness to launch himself occasionally into flights of utter absurdity that produced some of his best moments." And the Baltimore Sun recalls that Dean Acheson once referred to Buchwald as "the greatest satirist in English since Pope and Swift." (NPR has sound clips of Buchwald on All Things Considered, as well as a final interview with him last June.)

RIP, Artie..
Posted by: sandegaye / 6:33 PM
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