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As promised, here’s a picture of Art Ruckle, another frequent target of searches that land on this site.

I met Art at American Express almost 10 years ago, when he was working for Accountemps and I was pretending to service computers. We discovered that we were both over-educated–his MA is in American history, mine in American Studies–and ill-suited to our chosen career paths. We are, of course, still over-educated and ill-suited.

He’s a regular at the Traveling John Dingley Pub Quiz, currently held Sunday nights at the Lake Street Garage, but he mostly drags the team down. We have a tendency to over-analyze questions: “Well, most people would say that George Washington was the first president, but maybe he means John Hanson, president under the Articles of Confederation?” “Can we really say that Shakespeare ‘wrote’ Macbeth, when Elizabethan theater was a collaborative art?” Fortunately, the Guinness drowns our sorrows at frequent losses.

He’s pictured here playing the baritone sax with the Red Rock Swing Band at the Minnesota State Fair in 2004.