I do have to say my workmates gave me one really nice luncheon in the back room of a bar called Teddy's on North 8th and Berry Streets in Brooklyn, New York. I had a blackened catfish sandwich and a glass of chianti.

They also gave me a beautiful leather bound book filled with photos and handwritten tributes, and the cover is a hand painted portrait of me done by Joe Matunis, one of Brooklyn's best known street artists and muralists. Click here to take a look.

They also brought out a guitar and asked me to sing Where's My Bagel and Lox? and When I Was a Hippie in Arkansas. I honored the first request, but I substituted The October Waltz for the second.

So ended my career, June 26, 2009.

--- Steve