Breakfast of Champions

Tim Cavanaugh | March 31, 2005

This single-sourced brush with greatness in a nearly deserted NYC park sounds a little too much like Kramer's celebrity sighting of Salman Rushdie, but if it's true, it means Kurt Vonnegut—much-mocked in these here pages—is a hero of liberty twice over: first for defying the city's cigarette ban, and second for proving a robust smoker can live to be 500 years old.

Update: Reader/smoker David Rollins notes that Greenacre is not officially a city park, so the no-smoking rule there is not part of the city's smoking ban (which apparently doesn't apply in parks...yet!).