David Thayer

While some wring their hands about Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the Dow Jones Co., home of the beloved Wall Street Journal, let us remember that News Corp already controls Harper Collins and My Space, a kind of stranglehold on publishing from opposite ends of the spectrum. The board of Dow Jones chose not to respond to Rupert’s overtures, turning up their noses at the tabloid king.

Here in Wellington Leg a similar crisis brews. The Druidical & Literary, a broadsheet of impeccable taste, plunged into the online world in 2005 with ONE MORE BITE OF THE APPLE, a blog devoted to all things literary in the Leg. What a strategic move! Two out of three former Soviet republics now turn exclusively to this blog when incomprehension becomes insatiable, that is to say, the less understood of les affaires litereuse explored so deeply and so often herein.

Now the Daily Druidical & Literary is completely edible becoming the first newspaper that not only features book reviews but tastes good too. Only a Socialist Pratt would object to consuming 750 words of cogent criticism or yesterday’s box scores so quickly rendered obsolete. With the Earl assuming the role as Page Seven Editor-at-Large we believe that the quality control issues that have manifested from time to time are a thing not only of beauty but of the past!

This is the last time we talk about flan, fixing the Super Bowl, parking at COSTCO, Adrienne Barbeau, VOLTAIRE’S MIASMA, chunky versus light tuna, Hugo Chavez, assorted Roman legions, the seige of Los Angeles, abalone entrails, or emiment domain. We’re on task: we’re on budget, we’re pulling into COSTCO now. Damn the parking lot is full of chariots.

There are the new centurions? Let them eat book reviews.

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