As you all know this is Nobel Week.  Thursday is the Literature award. A few years ago it was warded to a jingle writer.  The character Charlie Sheen played on 2 ½ Men must have have been based on Bob Dylan.

Yes, Bob Dylan is now placed in the same category as Yeats and TS Elliot. Never underestimate the Scandinavian sense of humor, as Gore Vidal observed. 

Mark Twain and Tolstoy never won but by god Dylan won.  No, not Dylan Thomas.

If them Dutchman (see The Blue Hotel) in Stockholm wanted a song writer to win, why not Stephen Sondheim?  Oscar Hammerstein II?  Joni Mitchell?  Cole Porter?  Why not Sheb Wooley? after-all, he wrote The Purple People Eater, and played a bad guy out to kill Marshall Will Kane in High Noon.

Philip Roth was robbed.