For a Second I Almost Felt Significant

I can’t believe it. I can now say I’ve known two Pulitzer winners. And I’m not including perennial winner Jonah Goldberg, who had to rent a storage unit to hold his statuettes or whatever it is they give you.

I sort of knew Dave Barry back when I freelanced for The Miami Herald. He knew me well enough to shake my hand and back away slowly when we ran into each other at the elevators. And now my old editor, Gene Weingarten, has won a prize for writing about some fiddle player in the subway. He probably deserved it. He wrote very well when he ran Tropic, the Herald Sunday magazine. Tropic had a lot of good contributors, but I always thought he and Barry were the class of the operation.

Am I jealous? Not at all. Let’s see those losers make Quote of the Day at Kim du Toit’s blog.

I truly suck at name-dropping. I barely know anybody.