Dan Jenkins answered the phone and asked, “Hey, what do you need me to say?”
In an interview via email he wrote, “Just make it up. Make me sound good.”
He sat in his home office last September, in what what was one of his last interviews, and when I asked him what subjects didn’t interest him he said, “There are certain things I flat don’t give a (bleep) about ... like dead people.”
When I heard that Jenkins died on Thursday evening, of course it was on deadline. No one would have appreciated that more than Dan, or laughed at my expense.