I missed it, way down at the bottom of this recent column, but the Spike Report at OJR is, as Spike puts it, ‘slated to cease publication at the end of this month if sponsorship for the column can’t be found’, after a venerable five years’ of eclectic, eloquent and erudite observation. Any sugar daddies out there who can forstall the silencing of one of the more witty, whimsical and acute observers of the scene? Spike (who reveals he is the secret identity of Gideon Brower) posted his final column today, he wrote to say.