Pearls Before Breakfast

Re:Pearls Before Breakfast by tptacek on Sunday September 19, 2010 @01:23PM (#1706507)

This is a Gene Weingarten piece. Weingarten is an absurdly brilliant feature writer (this article won a Pulitzer, for whatever that's worth), and pretty funny in his humorous pieces too. I don't think this is his best work; my favorites of his are:

The Great Zucchini, about a birthday clown

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01...

Fatal Distraction, about parents locking their kids in cars --- this article is hard to take, and simply an awesome piece of writing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02...

The first time Weingarten got posted here I spent a couple hours tracking down as much of his writing as I could find, and ended up happy I did. Very much worth your time (or worth stuffing into your Instapaper account).

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Re:Pearls Before Breakfast by MatthewCampbell on Sunday September 19, 2010 @07:05PM (#1707174)

He recently released a printed collection of his best work, including your two favorites:

http://www.amazon.com/Fiddler-Subway-World-Class-Violinist-P...

Great Zucchini is my favorite, too. And his favorite.

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Re:Pearls Before Breakfast by shasta on Sunday September 19, 2010 @08:07PM (#1707288)

For those who don't have the time to read it, "The Great Zucchini" is about a world class clown who goes unrecognized while performing his famous mime routine undercover at a local mall.

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