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[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Or I could watch Dick Van Dyke on Nick-at-Nite. That sounds great, but then it would sound great even if I hadn't been reminded of Bloody Mary.

Also I don't know who Dick Hofstadter is or why that's funny.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

It's Douglas Hofstadter, and if you don't know who he is it probably just means that you belong to a generation after his.

He wrote 'A Person Paper on the Purity of Language' and several fascinating books about mathematics, language, music, creativity, consciousness, fonts, and (more germane to the comic) self-reference and strange loops.

Check his books out sometime. His is a fascinating mind and view of the world. He won a Pulitzer for non-fiction, so my general rave reviews do have backup. :-)