Farewell | Final thanks!

[Her inscription: 'Thank you for taking me to the Pumpkin Center']

With alarming speed, Gannett Blog's final week is looking like that last episode of Seinfeld -- if Fellini had been the director! (Peace, out: Rainbow the Editorial Boy!) I'm now singling out a few of the thousands of readers whose contributions went above and beyond the call. Sooooo, with that as background, shake that groove thing,

Boom-Z-Boom!

Her homepage nearly says it all. "Follow belly dancer Naja Hara (AKA Boom-Z-Boom) from the middle of Indiana cornfields to the center of a Rochester, N.Y., gang war! Preview excerpts from her expose, From the Gang to Gannett. Explore the life and loves of this exotic dancer, from mafia chieftans Rene Piccarreto and Tommy Marotta . . . to USA Today's founder Al Neuharth."

Oh, yes! Now, I'm not going to cheat one of my most generous financial backers by spoiling the end of her story about an encounter she claims occurred at the retired Gannett chairman's love shack in the Rochester sky.

But I'll whet your appetite by recalling a moment where, she says, Big Al steps out of a dressing room wearing his wife's brown robe. "He bragged that he was the same weight as he was in World War II, 146 lbs. 'Yeah,' she thinks, '140 lbs. of body, 40 lbs. of ego, and . . . '"

No. NO! I just can't go there. You'll have to visit her site for the rest.

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