Maurice Sendak, dead at 83...

... his hairpiece was 24.  Sorry, had to throw in a BASEketball joke there, it was too good to pass up.  But seriously, Maurice Sendak passed away this morning at the age of 83 due to complications after a recent stroke.  If you don't recognize the name, he's the author of Where the Wild Things Are (and some other children's books apparently).  Ironically, he didn't like children.  Here's a part 1 of a recent interview of Sendak on The Colbert Report:

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