Happy Birthday to Bob Dylan & this blog

A reader from Brazil — hello Roberto McCarthy — called today as is his custom to wish my blog a happy birthday. I’d nearly forgotten. So here’s what I posted in 2013 when the blog turned 5.





You’re probably unaware of the vanity, but for the past two years this blog has been lying about its age.



It says it’s younger than it really is.



By one day.



See, my very first blog was