CONTENTS
What He Said There
The First Thanksgiving
Ike Was a Handsome Man
God Will Give You Blood to Drink in a Souvenir Shot Glass
The New German Cinema
Democracy and Things Like That
Pop-A-Shot
California as an Island
Dear Dead Congressman
The Nerd Voice
Rosa Parks, C’est Moi
Tom Cruise Makes Me Nervous
Underground Lunchroom
Wonder Twins
Cowboys v. Mounties
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
State of the Union
Tom Landry, Existentialist, Dead at 75
The Strenuous Life
Acknowledgments