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Saturday, June 12, 2004
They retired Paul's cape on Letterman last night. It was only last week that I had stayed up late enough to realize that this was an ongoing bit. It had been going on for two years! Ted Koppel, Jack Black, George Pataki -- even Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. They'd all held the cape for Paul. And now it's all just an unremembered digression, like Chris Elliot.