Whipped Cream Difficulties

Slate has an interesting article on the bizarre saga of Togo’s national soccer team, which apparently did not play in Bahrain last month, and did not lose 3-0.

I know that previous sentence probably doesn’t make any sense. It will once you read the article. Trust me.

I got a little distracted on Friday, and didn’t get a chance to note the passing of Stephen J. Cannell. Both Lee Goldberg and his brother Tod Goldberg have nice appreciations up at their respective blogs, though, and I did want to call attention to those. One thing stood out to me from Tod’s appreciation:

Every time I did a panel with him — and I must have done a dozen panels with him in the last five years alone — afterward he bought copies of every single other person’s book on the panel. This might seem like an insignificant thing in the larger scheme of life, but to see the looks on people’s faces when he walked up with their books afterward to get them signed confirmed for me the same thing I felt time and time again: he was just a class act.