"Joyce and the Art of City Bus Dependence"

Colin McEnroe of the Hartford Courant tries--and hilariously fails--to bridge the gap of human connection using Irish literature as a stepping stone:

I was trying to think of something to say to her that would, you know, celebrate some kind of kinship between us, some kind of acknowledgment of what we had in common: each having paid $1.25 to travel from east to west and each having been willing (or commanded) to tackle certain difficult Irish novels.

And the only thing I could think of was, "Give my regards to Stephen Dedalus" (the protagonist of the book), and I was just NOT going to say that because it was stupid and weird.