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...introduction to the wonder of dogs came from my wife Robyn. She's Australian. And Australia, as lovingly recounted in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country, has the craziest, wildest, deadliest, meanest animals on the planet. In a place where every spider and squid can take you down faster than a sucker-punched boxer, you cherish niceness in the animal kingdom. And they don't come nicer than dogs...
Level with us: Clay or Ruben? I'm actually a Clay guy, believe it or not. Ruben has an amazing voice, but he's kind of like your typical Luther Vandross or Peabo Bryson. Where Clay is--I've never seen anybody like that, except for maybe Rick Astley, way back when. He's this little guy with this tremendous voice...
...Bill Bryson doesn't look like a troublemaker. With his corduroy jacket, woolly pullover and roughly trimmed beard, he seems more the mild-mannered, professorial sort than a travel writer famous for his savage wit. This is, after all, the man who dismissed Australia's capital with the epithet "Canberra? Why Wait for Death?" Of Bradford, England, he opined that its sole purpose is "making every place else look better by comparison." And he doesn't hesitate to skewer his fellow Americans. Bryson's first book, a 1989 exploration of small-town U.S.A. called The Lost Continent, included the following...
...Over drinks at his favorite London pub, Bryson, 51, displays none of the cutting humor he unleashes in print. His latest work, African Diary, a slim volume that recounts his journey to Kenya with aid workers from Care International, is also a departure from his usual persona. The millions of fans who have made Bryson's nine books worldwide best sellers will find little acerbity in sober tales of places like the Dadaab refugee camp or Kibera, a slum in southern Nairobi. "I was shocked at what I saw, but I also had to be careful not to damage Care...
...Harvard offense continued its onslaught in the second period, when, with Vermont forward Bryson Busnick in the penalty box for boarding, the Harvard power-play unit went to work...