Birthdays: Ovid, Henrik Ibsen, Ned Buntline

Tips and Teasers:  You come home to find fifteen messages on your answering machine. All from the same number – a number you don’t recognize and can’t find on-line. The first message says “If you want Darcy to live, you’d better answer.” The messages get increasingly threatening. Who is Darcy? Do you know? What do you do?

Thought for the day: “Don’t be thin-skinned or easily discouraged, because it’s an odds-long proposition; all of the arts are. Many are called, few are chosen, but it might be you.” – John Updike.