I have been duly shamed for writing about the death of Ol’ Dirty Bastard and not linking to the one story on the topic co-bylined by a crabwalk.com reader. So I am doing my penance.
In addition, the story was linkworthy if only because of its use of the term “mad paranoid.” “Mad” being, in this case, a glorious adverbial substitute for “very.” Which reminds me of the great ol’ Calvin Trillin bit about the distinctions between being “crazy stupid” and being “stupid crazy.” I always thought “crazy stupid” was a preferable state of being.
By the way, that great story for tomorrow will only be a so-so story. I have to stop preselling these things.
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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