So, y’all know Charlie Savage, right? He’s the Boston Globe reporter who busted open the story of the Bush Administration’s use of signing statements to skirt and nullify laws passed by Congress. His efforts even won him a Pulitzer.

What you may not know about Savage is that he broke an even bigger story earlier in his career. In 1995, Savage, then a just a mild-mannered journalists working for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, was the first mainstream news writer to report that one could sync Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon with the Wizard of Oz, which Savage described at the time as escaping “logic or understanding.”

Savage was asked about his blockbuster scoop, which he picked up from a Pink Floyd usenet forum, by the DC branch of The Onion…but they didn’t post it online, so I can’t block quote it for you. I may transcribe it soon though.

In the meantime, watch the first part of Dark Side of the Rainbow:

The Flaming Lips - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pink Floyd Cover Live On KCRW)

(Yes, I know this song’s not on Dark Side, but Coyne talks about Oz, so deal with it.)

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