Yes, but does he LIKE Pulitzer Prizes?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

In what's surely a heartbreaking set of circumstances for the psychotically-intense baseball fanatic, Chico Harlan is leaving the WaPo's Nats beat for... well, I have no earthly idea. But it's somewhere where Japanese lessons come in handy, apparently. (OE: He'll be the Post's Asia correspondent within a couple of weeks.)

The new guy? Adam Kilgore, a former Post intern, Boston Globe writer, and Pulitzer Prize winner (for contributions to the VT massacre in 2007).

Bouquets of Fieldturf and lilies, diamond-shaped notes of support and other expressions of condolence for Mr. Harlan can be sent to:

The Washington Post
1150 15th St. NW
Washington, DC 20071

Or you can just leave them at Nationals Park. After all, he'll pretty much live there whenever he comes back to the US, right?

[metirish]

Harlan does come off like a bit of a dick , still that's a big move going form covering the Nats to being the Asia guy for The Post.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Between the story itself and LWFS's thread title I am reminded of this bit from 'An Evening with Groucho'

Speaking of vaudeville, there used to be a critic in Chicago, when we played there, by the name of Percy Hammond. This is about thirty years ago, I guess. He was on the Chicago Tribune, and he reviewed our act. We did a big act, and we had about twenty-five people on there, and he reviewed the act, and the next morning this was the review. He said "The Marx Brothers and their various relatives ran around the stage for almost an hour, yesterday afternoon. Why I'll never understand." He was a tough guy. During the 2nd World War, years later, the Chicago Tribune correspondent had died, and they had to get a new guy to...eh...to go over and cover the war. They had a big meeting one day there, and Ring Lardner were there and they had the whole staff of the Chicago Tribune. And somebody suggested sending Percy Hammond over, this critic who had reviewed our act. And Ring Lardner said "No, no, you can't do that. Suppose he doesn't like the war."

[G-Fafif]

Harlan gave an interview to the Japan Times admitting that he doesn't really care for Asia.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Japan Times is a cool paper, by the way. It's a great source of news from home for the many English speakers who find themselves living in Japan, but it also serves, through its letters page and columns and some of its features, as a kind of support group for all the gaijin who find themselves living in such an alien culture.

At least, that's the impression I got during the two weeks I spent reading it back in 2006.

[ashie62]

Harlan gave an interview to the Japan Times admitting that he doesn't really care for Asia.[/quote:2y8fvgb9]

Thats, uh, pretty funny*

Almost as good as the National Enquirer having made it to the prelims for a pulitzer