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no news unless the fact that I will have conducted six interviews in the last three days by tonight's Carolina-Duke tip-off is news.
unless it's news that I will be inside Madison Square Garden for Blake Griffin's Garden debut when Carolina and Duke tip off.
and yes, that last one may actually be news.

also, Amazon admits to having copies of the Tusk book in stock.
no 11 to 14 day wait.
no one to three week wait.
and that may be news.
then again, this morning they said they had three left and now they say they have four left and that doesn't really make a lot of sense to me (and that's not news), but then I never was a math major.

update: the Knicks lost and Carolina lost (which means Duke won) and the world has not yet come to an end (which may be news)
further proof: Amazon says they can get you the Tusk book by Friday if you really, really want it that soon

the last book I ever read: A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by Suze Rotolo
the last movie I ever watched (not counting HBO, Turner Classic, Showtime or Netflix Streaming): Inception