We spent a week in Berlin where I learned the real reason the wall came down, Kentucky Fried Chicken! Apparently the Eastern Bloc couldn’t resist the colonel’s secret recipe. Finger Lecken Gut! Of course KFC can’t get all the credit for the downfall of communism. McDonald’s offers BIG MACS MIT CHEESE on the other side of Checkpoint Charlie.

The moment after James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill. . . and the moment before his partners hacked him to pieces. Watch your back, dude!

Spent the weekend in New Orleans, hanging with my brother and checking out the World Fantasy Conference. History fact: after Caesar conquered Gaul, he took over the Superdome.