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Travels With The Missus On the Côte d’Azur (Encore!)

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

After dinner I walked down to the bay one last time. I stood in a soft rain next to the bust of homeboy Jean Cocteau alongside the chapel he renovated in the 1950s, and looked one last time at the … Continue reading →

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Wrestling with Dr. Samuel Johnson

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

How sweet was it that Sunday’s New York Times Book Review featured side-by-side reviews of a biography of the great critic-lexicographer-biographer Samuel Johnson and an autobiography of wrestler-celebrity-nobody Hulk Hogan? So it was that Johnson’s “Falstaffian vitalism” paralleled Hogan’s “herculean … Continue reading →

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