CALL ME SNAKE

I was late in filing my Celtics playoff report, as I frankly admitted in an earlier post (“2005 NBA Playoff Report,” April 25, 2005). But before you castigate me too severely, I’d like to relate a little story: Just the other night, a friend told me about an accountant, a relative of his, who took more than three years to file the income tax forms for a client, who happened to be another relative of my friend. Viewed in that light, the cited “day and a half lag” in my reporting was not late at all. On the contrary, it was three years early.