And it's calling me to get back on here and start writing about what's going on the world from high pop culture to low politics.

Every writer should have a patron like my buddy Dan Faber, who has encouraged, goaded, even nagged me into backing away from the Facebook, the middle-aged inertia and the corporate stress and get writing again.

So here I am.

Thanks Dan.

So what do you all want to talk about? Obama and that Nobel? Dave Letterman and those female staffers? Conde Nast's dire financial situation?