The Job of People Who Can Be Old and Young

Charlie Pierce spoke at the memorial serive for Clif Garboden, his friend and editor from Charlie's alt press days who died last winter. He was nice enough to share with us what he said. You'll want to read this.

You must remember this.

Regular readers of Hot Dots – the most consistently excellent exercise in American cultural criticism since James Agee hung 'em up – will recognize this as Clif's traditional four-word assessment of Casablanca on the occasion of Channel 38's running the thing 20 or 30 times a year.

Hot Dots had other consistent running themes – the existential questions Clif always concocted for Ask The Manager, a fierce and admirable anger at press releases when they appeared…