the cover of the 1999 book has a quote from senator bob kerrey on the front cover. remind folks who he was and why he ended up on the cover of your book. >> guest: bob kerrey. he's a senator from nebraska, right, who he actually lost his foot in the vietnam war, and he was kind of the presidential candidate and then had kind of a scandal about a particular episode during the war, which is still unclear exactly what happened but it was not good enough to cost him his bid there. it is always nice to me and an artist and interesting, and he would actually, the boyfriend of my neighbor when i lived in the west village. back when you could live in the west village as a single barely working writer, you get an apartment in the west village. she lived across the hallki from me and he was her boyfriend comes like ayf two night out wih a little bit. and asked if he would do a blurb for the book. he did. he did a really funny one. his homework originally, it wouldn't accept it and i thought they were foolish, was read this or else, which is like perfect for like the book is c