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erronis

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15. As soon as I read the first sentences I knew who it was. I spent many hours at The Dubliner with Art.

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Thu Nov 27, 2025, 10:08 AM

Thursday

I had a gig on Capitol Hill but had to wait until a bunch of computer equipment was installed so I decided to have a pint (slow pour) at the Dubliner. Well, the installation kept getting delayed and the pints kept on pouring. At some point a gentleman sat at the seat next to me and we were able to swap tales (my tales were mainly of my father who had a long career in and out of government.)

Art was a gem and very real. No puffery.

I remember his extended stay in hospice and eventually checking himself out (of hospice, not life.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Buchwald#Illness_and_death

Buchwald died of kidney failure on January 17, 2007, at his son Joel's home in Washington, D.C.[19] The next day the website of The New York Times posted a video obituary in which Buchwald said: "Hi. I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died."[20]

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