art buckwald dies

Oh, how sad. It was so strange. I had just read the latest Reader's Digest yesterday. One of the things that they had was an article about Buchwald and the way that he lived his life at the end. I wondered whether he was still living, and now this.

I think that he is a role model for all of us, in terms of dealing with his impending mortality. He was a great guy, and had a wonderful sense of humor.

Oh, too bad! I didn't read him often, but when I did, I inevitably enjoyed whatever he wrote.

He was a good man...and funny to a fault. I'll miss his commentary.

Loved his wit. He was a good guy.

I remember especially one Buchwald joke which got a lot of attention from people a long time ago.

When I was young, the newspapers were full of news of the Red Guards who were running all over China. They were kind of young super fundamentalist Communists, and they were shutting down various establishements for not being sufficiently Communist, changing street names to boost ideology, banning plays and movies with themes they didn't like, etc.

One of the things they did was to change the name of a famous Peking street to "East Is Red Avenue".

Art Buchwald had a running joke in his columns at the time about how, in response, the Mayor of New York was going to officially change the name of Fifth Avenue to "West Is Red, White and Blue Boulevard".