A few years ago I was in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia with my cousin, looking at some boring canvas, when suddenly I heard someone talking quietly a few yards away. "That guy sounds exactly like Ben Stone", I thought. I looked over and sure enough it was Michael Moriarty. He looked at me at the same time, but I didn't say anything. I had no idea that he was living in Nova Scotia then.

About a month after that I was sitting in Gatsby's, a comfortable bar with big booths. Someone was talking in the next booth excitedly, but the booths are that big that you can't see anyone. A minute later they left the bar. Two minutes after that one of them returned, leaned into the booth they had been sitting in, and retrieved a case of beer.

Michael Moriarty (for it was he) turned to me triumphantly as he left and said: "Almost forgot something!"

Anyway, now he is planning to run for president. I can see no objection to that.