9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for October 01, 2006

Transcript:

"Have you a comb to lend?" "Thus it was, in the gathering clouds of the Cold War, I realized my presence in this world could no longer be that of a dispassionate recorder, a rubbernecker to the head-on collision of history. Buffeted on the winds of change, I became involved." "It was at that moment, that nexus of events, that I transformed into the Zeitgeist of a generation, emblem of an age - the builder of a fundament upon which great skyscrapers of thought would rise and gore the Empyrean." "I coined the word 'kooky.'" "I stood in the shadow of greatness today." "Have you ever considered sunblock instead?"