Taki Taki

Broken streak

Taki on the High Life

issue 13 October 2007

New York

Ain’t that a bitch! What else can one say? The way I figure it, it was 357 columns without a miss for the first seven years, then, after a Pentonville break, 1,275 straight until last week. The lawyers broke my streak, but then they would. And in my 30th year, too. Well, what the hell, all good things come to an end, but at least only Claus von Bulow rang to inquire whether I had dropped dead. Actually, I ran the offending piece on my website, www.takimag.com, so it did see the light of day, and 100,000 visitors got to read it, so there.

What’s interesting is how things have changed in the past 30 years. Libel laws are supposedly not as strict as they used to be, but don’t you believe it. For example, I will not mention politically incorrect things one was permitted to write in jest back then.

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