In a final entry Wednesday entitled, "I'm sailing away," the author, who is moving to Newsweek as a technology columnist this fall, said he was shutting down the popular parody of the life of the Apple chief executive and starting a new blog under his own name.
It has finally turned you into Hassan who is Everywhere, giving you the bluest identity card there is, entitling you to sail back and forth, with total freedom, above this country from Rosh Hanikra in the north all along the coastal plain down to the southern strip in Gaza.
I've fallen for his work in the past, and this one, entitled Death of a Sails-Man, is touched by brilliance.
The contest evokes names like Vanderbilt and Lipton, Endeavor and Courageous, and simply sailing in the race entitles skippers to claim a bit of that majesty themselves.
Morrison additionally collaborated with Tom Jones on his 1999 album Reload, performing a duet on "Sometimes We Cry", and he also sang vocals on a track entitled "The Last Laugh" on Mark Knopfler's 2000 album, Sailing to Philadelphia.
Some of the disarmingly amateurish paintings depict warhorses à la Géricault, a sailing ship, a swan, Emma Peel of "The Avengers," and a frowzy Scarlett Johansson, entitled "The Girl in the Pearl Earring in Shakespeare's Cottage".
Those who paid are entitled to a refund or, depending on availability, tickets for subsequent days at the sailing or other events.
The series begins at noon with a 25-minute dance installation by Zaccho Dance Theater entitled "Sailing Away".
