Sucks about Don Rickles. What a great run. I saw him with Joan Rivers a few years ago in Florida. He was at the Orleans here all the time. I kept meaning to get a ticket to see him again...damn.
RIP.
"It was like I was in high school again, but fatter."
"Whereas scientists, philosophers and political theorists are saddled with these drably discursive pursuits, students of literature occupy the more prized territory of feeling and experience." - Terry Eagleton