Two postcards from the world of tough guys:

One.

Two people stopped to try to help 26-year-old Ardonas Gilbert, who was running naked along the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 on Monday night, but he allegedly cursed at them and punched them, Delaware State Police said.

Gilbert then ran into traffic, causing three separate accidents as motorists tried to avoid him, police said. No one was seriously injured.

His MySpace page says he’s a straight Muslim barber and “proud parent.” He had a song on the page, but it was “deleted by the [presumably embarrassed] artist.”

Two:

Norman Mailer had a straightforward recipe for cooking a steak, the novelist Geoff Nicholson once told me.

Mailer would throw the steak in a pan with some butter, and turn the heat up to high. When the smoke detector in the house went off, it was time to flip the thing over.

I have tried this. It scares the hell out of pets and children, but it works quite well.

His MySpace page says he’s a single Aquarius. He also had a song on the page, and it was also “deleted by the artist.”

But if you follow the “view band profile” link, you will see that the artist is the [presumably embarrassed] Lou Reed.