He had not been desperate when he answered her ad in the paper. He had already lost two other sublets- the second because the tenant felt that he had an untrustworthy face, and told him so. 

Every year, at our Spring Revel, we give three honors: the Hadada Prize, the Plimpton Prize, and the Terry Southern Prize. This year, John Hodgman of the New York Times Magazine, the Daily Show, and those Mac ads presented the Southern Prize to J.…