RIP Don ~ thanks for the laughs

 A friend texted me two days ago that the The Bad Reporter had died. I knew Don Asmussen through his first wife who is a friend of mine. He had been fighting brain cancer for years, he lost. The Chronicle will do a big splash tomorrow, orchestrated by this wonderful cartoonist himself. 

he won't rest in peace

This morning we salute this author who just died and will be greatly missed.

Here from NextDraft with thanks to Dave Pell:

The first line reads, "Updike and Bellow shine their flashlights on the...

world as it is now. I dig a hole and shine my flashlight into the hole." Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85. (One of my favorite authors and three of my favorite topics...)  + "She was so deeply embedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise." The Ringer: The Iconic Profanity—and Essential Anthropology—of Portnoy's Complaint.  + "I occasionally have an anti-Roth reader in mind. I think, 'How he is going to hate this!' That can be just the encouragement I need." The Paris Review interview with Philip Roth.