Miscellaneous and Fast

• Stanley Bing: How not to handle a cocktail party.
• Chilling: A scene from "The Lives of Others."
• Tom Peters reads from "The Little BIG Things."
• Mark Steyn on post-modern political leadership.
• Dogpatch: Stefan Kanfer on the work of Al Capp.
• Slate: An excerpt from "Hitch-22."
• Roy Orbison: "Only the Lonely."