Parenthesis is where we collect our favorite writing from moms and dads around the web: essays, letters, rants and calls for help that make us nod in agreement, groan in sympathy, reach for the tissues, laugh so hard we spit out our coffee -- and in particularly glorious cases, all of the above.
No, he is a glorious worst case scenario of "successful" twilight years.
Google is a glorious example.
Contrast, for example, the grace and glorious aromas of Case Basse di Soldera, perhaps the greatest brunello producer, with the power and density of Il Poggione.
Glorious in one case, miserable in the other.
Like most football fans, the opening day of the Premier League season found me suffused with excitement, but in my case the glorious uncertainty of it all revolved round whether Sky Sports' chief summariser, after 16 years behind the mic, might finally bring himself to use the past tense for action replays.
"Some people must read with their hair standing on end thinking, 'Thank God we have contraception, sanitation, penicillin.' Others look at the costumes, revels and folderol and think: 'How glorious is that?'" Whatever the case, our time is up.
As with other powerful figures, Jay-Z's calm is even more conspicuous given the frenetic activity surrounding him, which in this case is a glorious stream of horns and drums created by producer Just Blaze, who samples nineteen-seventies recordings by the Lafayette Afro Rock Band and Johnny Pate that were originally (and legendarily) sampled by Public Enemy and Wreckx-n-Effect.
But I do think, once the excitement dies down, that there are many things to discover on the walls and in the cases, plus a glorious mansion (with a perfect new downtown-minimal staircase) to explore, classes to take, and, indeed, tables to fondle.
