Wednesday, October 13, 2004

IT GOES LIKE THIS, THE FOURTH PAYCHECK, THE FIFTH PAYCHECK: Our good friend T. Muffle has come out of the closet to see the light of day, emerging as Alex Balk, newest NYT Arts & Leisure contributor.

To which we say, wh-hoo!, and also do some sleuthing, of course. Because it turns out that Alex, like others around these parts, was a frequent Slate NewsQuiz contributor, Randy Cohen's now-sadly-defunct home of daily mirth and mischief.

Plus which, had we been wise, we might have discovered other writings that would have revealed his identity sooner. . . .

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