Q: This is like Sideways, without the drinking and sex.

A: Yes. A buddy movie.

Team WUPPIE limps in to New Orleans, hitting on three cylinders.

Q: What's with these pamphlets.

Someone suggests a topic and you riff on it for 12 pages.

A: That's about it.

Someone suggests a topic and I riff on it for 12 pages.

Dr. Dailey used to teach at Buffalo, which is just across the river from Toronto.

He knew Marshall McLuhan before he was famous.

He said he had notes written on index cards.

He would just start talking and go from card to card.

Q: Were they in order?

A: Yes. But Dr. Dailey said the order didn't matter.

If you reshuffled the deck, he would still go from index card to index card. Making connections.

Q: Can't you write a 750-word column without counting the words?

A: I used to could.

Q: You're like an old fire dog, running in his sleep.

A: I can't run like I used to.

Rather, I think I'm awake but I'm dreaming.

I'm not sure if I'm asleep or not.

I'm doing it in a fugue state.

I can't remember what I did two days ago.

I have to look it up.