Choice Morsel

Alex Ross, in an update to his blog post on his Colbert Report appearance — an update which we missed due our monitoring of Alex’s blog via its RSS feed exclusively — quotes a choice morsel from the “interview” that ended up on the cutting-room floor due to time constraints:

ROSS: ... and the Beatles were listening to avant-garde works by John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and ended up putting Stockhausen's face on the cover of Sgt. Peppers.
COLBERT: OK, but I’ve never heard of this guy Stockhausen.
ROSS: He believed he was from the star Sirius.
COLBERT: The dog star.
ROSS: He recently died — he’s on his way back to Sirius.
COLBERT: It sounds like some kind of cult.

Alex doesn’t record his response (if any) to Colbert’s last comment, but we could suggest one. A simple, direct, and laconic, “It is.”