just heard on letterman

watching an episode of Letterman (they're probably a week old when they reach us) in which he was reading "Small Town News."  there was a piece from the Custer SD paper which said, "suspicious persons were seen doing something strange with a flashlight. further investigation revealed that they weren't suspicious, they were just Canadian."

isn't that hilarious?

once upon a time...

a very long time ago, i was a page in the SD legislature. one fine day, in the midst of doing page-like things (running errands, picking up papers, running mrs. kosher's notes on how to vote down to mr. kosher), i found myself in the elevator. with governor janklow. he smiled and looked at my name tag. "nachtigal," he said, "charles mix county," there's a ralph nachtigal down there. i said, "i know, he's my dad." the smile faded from governor janklow's face and he said, "oh." conversation over. after what seemed like an eternity, the elevator doors opened and i got out.