I Wanna Write Like This One Day

I really admire James Lileks effortless writing style. Like Dennis Miller, he can pull so many random pop-culture references together in clever ways. From today's Bleat, there's this on the Iraqi elections:

I haven’t been writing about this here because I’m just taking the long, long view, and haven’t the time or inclination to argue with people who think “No WMD!” is the argument equivalent of a spreading a full house on the green felt table. It may seem so, but unfortunately we’re playing chess.

On Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper, this:

I bought some, because it seemed unlikely that so many flavors could be jammed into one receptacle without creating some new uberflavor that opened new dimensions and let through the howling minions of hell.

Talking about his child's self-treated nosebleed, this:

It looked like she’d taped her mouth shut and sneezed six times. We’re talking cherry-bomb-in-a-lasagna-dish here.

A really wonderful writer.