It's a lead-pipe cinch, I figure. I'm a good detective. I've found opium
dens in Vientiane; been granted interviews by cardinals, mafiosi, and
sheikhs; discovered the meaning of “half-and-half” in the old song
“Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee”; conned the Vatican into bestowing a
doctorate on me so that I could gain access to hiddenmost archives;
deciphered the cryptic message Ezra Pound scrawled in his own copy of the
Cantos while in the bughouse; tracked down and interviewed Phil Spector's
first wife, long presumed dead; charted my way to the sacred stone of the
Great Mother, in Cyprus; gotten Charlotte Rampling's cell-phone number;
even come close to understanding the second page of my Con Ed bill. Finding
out where a picture was taken—a picture plastered on millions of computer
screens—seems a shot away.
Via Jason Kottke,
Autumn and the Plot Against Me
For Bunny, who has this picture as her desktop …
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