My funny bone has been tickled a bit lately. I'd like to think the editors at the WSJ are giving Stephen Miller a little more leash with his obituary writing lately. It's just the playful little boy in me with a frog in his pocket.
How else can you explain that Mr. Miller got away with referring to the recently departed host of the PBS show 'Star Gazer,' Jack Horkheimer, as a "slightly cracked character." It's a great obit about someone I knew nothing of, and now wish I had. I think I might have enjoyed looking up and bumping into Jack on TV, pulling in his take on "naked eye" astronomy. Who even knew that looking up at the sky could be described as "naked eye astronomy?"
And today's obit, on a legendary creator of knives, Bob Loveless, who lived to be 81, chain smoking his way without a tooth in his head, who wore a ".45 sidearm strapped to his belt." as he worked alone, often to midnight, turning out high end hunting knives.
Mr. Loveless apparently became interested in knives when he faked his age at 15 and joined the Merchant Marines, witnessing a few knife fights in foreign ports.
It's not in the obit, but you can bet it crossed Mr. Miller's mind to somehow work in that Bob Loveless was so well prepared in his work that even in his own workshop he brought a gun, just in case a knife fight broke out.
An editor probably got in the way.
http://www.onofframp.blogspot.com/
How else can you explain that Mr. Miller got away with referring to the recently departed host of the PBS show 'Star Gazer,' Jack Horkheimer, as a "slightly cracked character." It's a great obit about someone I knew nothing of, and now wish I had. I think I might have enjoyed looking up and bumping into Jack on TV, pulling in his take on "naked eye" astronomy. Who even knew that looking up at the sky could be described as "naked eye astronomy?"
And today's obit, on a legendary creator of knives, Bob Loveless, who lived to be 81, chain smoking his way without a tooth in his head, who wore a ".45 sidearm strapped to his belt." as he worked alone, often to midnight, turning out high end hunting knives.
Mr. Loveless apparently became interested in knives when he faked his age at 15 and joined the Merchant Marines, witnessing a few knife fights in foreign ports.
It's not in the obit, but you can bet it crossed Mr. Miller's mind to somehow work in that Bob Loveless was so well prepared in his work that even in his own workshop he brought a gun, just in case a knife fight broke out.
An editor probably got in the way.
http://www.onofframp.blogspot.com/
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