How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low