Come back, Larry

Does anyone else remember Larry King's USA Today column? More to the point, his occasional "King's Things" doodad he'd run once in a while? It was amazing, just a bunch of sentence fragments about whatever. One time, somewhere, Bob Costas even wrote a parody of it. King's Things was a listing of what, say, the surly, down on his luck drunk 59 year old salesman guy at the airport bar may be thinking about, or, indeed, Larry King. Sort of like this:

Con Air is the most exciting movie since The French
Connection...still great to see Debbie Reynolds doing her
thing...when you're thinking of great Oakland A's from the 70s, don't ever
forget Bill North...the new Scott Turow is his best yet, be
ready to lose some sleep...I miss filmstrips...Maya Angelou is one hell of a
poet...it's hard to beat top round when talking cuts of beef...I'd love to see Jack Nicklaus in his prime against Tiger Woods
on 17 at Pebble Beach...

Was thinking, since the Cryptkeeper is apparently too busy to bother with this sort of thing, that maybe I can occasionally run an item like it, "Nick's Picks" or something, with my attendant dumb obsessions:

I like dogs, but for my money you can't beat a good old tabby..."Have You Seen
Your Mother, Baby, Standing In the Shadow?" is an ace early Stones deep cut...it's hard to beat a good, clean preppy
look...Lester Holt is great at whatever he does...I'd like to
buried with some Oreo Cakesters...I miss filmstrips...you can't really beat Aladdin Sane when talking 1973 Bowie
records...John Updike sure knows adultery...garlic is hard to
beat as a flavoring agent...

Maybe a new thing for the oh-nine!