Late in 1996, coming to B-N to, among other pursuits, dine at Monical’s Pizza, visit a favorite Wallace haunt (Babbitt’s Books in uptown) and then follow him on a five-day book tour was Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky. It is his 2010 best-seller of that experience that's basis for the movie that will also star Jesse Eisenberg ("The Social Network," "Now You See Me.").

Next Halloween? Have your DFW bandannas ready.

Oh what a difference one missing letter makes: Spell-check is especially handy for those not blessed with the gift of good spelling.

A problem, of course, is if you also are not the best typist, you can mis-type a word and spell-check will change it to a word you did not intend, as evidenced the other day on the website of a Bloomington radio station that had intended to post that "a free recital at ISU's Kemp Recital Hall has been cancelled."

Unfortunately — or perhaps fortunately — it read that the free "rectal" at ISU had been cancelled.

Today's deep thought: As mulled by David Messenger, of Normal: "Since corn is also known as maize, shouldn't a corn maze also be termed a 'maize maze' "?