When the brain pulled in, back at its head for one final, farewell run, was old 1307, all shined up and purring.
As it is, the delivery method of Parks And Rec's final season perhaps sums up NBC's attitude towards the show: it's respectful enough to allow a 16-episode farewell run, but equally happy to burn those episodes off in double-bills on a Tuesday night, far away from the network's once-vaunted (and now dead) Thursday-night Must See TV block.
A Last Impression Cal Ripken continued his farewell home run tour in Texas last week, hitting a home run in his last game in a city for the third consecutive time (Atlanta, Florida, Texas).
It could happen just in the nick of time, too: with HP possibly churning out a farewell production run, a user-friendly port process (which is required to claim Hacknmod's bounty) could give clamoring consumers yet another reason to mob their local retailers.
Time after time, when Albert's (and a logical viewer's) reason say it is time to bid Louie an irrevocable farewell, "On the Run," which opens today at the Screening Room (54 Varick Street, TriBeCa), concocts another misadventure.
She got to play alongside her ailing father throughout his lengthy farewell tour, which ran through 2012, and in 2013 she made the difficult decision to move to Nashville to pursue her own career in country music.
The initial run of farewell shows stretches through the second half of November.
Two standard-issue concerts by Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic, it appeared, could prove only anticlimactic, the last in a long run of farewells.
Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain will close the conference with a speech that amounts to a farewell address — his tenure running out amid recriminations over the Iraq war.
Having previously written about the ending of great careers in "The Hero's Farewell", Mr Sonnenfeld, who runs the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, has decided that the time is ripe for a message of hope for fallen bosses everywhere.How to rebound from failure is not a subject much addressed in business schools, he laments, despite their growing obsession with teaching leadership.
Minutes away, at the Old Vic Theatre, the director Sam Mendes has pitched up in London following an international tour of his Anglo-American Bridge Project, repeating a repertory pairing of Shakespeare and Chekhov — same idea, different plays — that the theater-hungry Oscar winner first proffered in 2002 as his farewell after a decade running the Donmar.
