
Christopher Hitchens closing a
letter he wrote to apologize for missing a speaking engagement at the American Athiests convention in April of 2011 due to his recent diagnosis of esophageal cancer.
This photo was taken in March of 2010, on stage just after
Apolo Ohno, one week removed from his
record setting olympics performance, had finished speaking. His opening line, which cracked everyone up was, "Now I know how a person feels who just got second at a Marylin Monroe look alike contest."