Distressing News

According to the Miami Herald (which would kind of be the authority on this), Dave Barry is taking a leave of absence, and may not return to the paper.

As someone who reads his column and his blog religiously (and has owned, at one time or another, most of his books), this is huge news. Certainly, he'd been at it for a long time, and he deserves a retirement from the weekly grind, but that doesn't make it any less painful.

That said, I have a feeling once his Guide 2 Guys movie bombs next year (and don't get me wrong - I LOVED the book that it was based on; just have a feeling from what I've seen of it so far that it's a bad sitcom in waiting), he may be back...