When last I wrote of Jeffrey Wells, the longtime movie-industry journalist and writer of the Hollywood Elsewhere blog, he had found lodging in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival - but was still upset that his old lodging at the Star Hotel was booked out from under him, even though Wells had left his cowboy hat (pictured at left) as a good-faith indicator that he would return.

(Yeah, I know, in the real world people leave their credit-card numbers to book a room, but there's something romantic - in a creepy sort of way - about Wells' hat gesture.)

Here's the punchline: According to Wells' latest (and, he swears, his last) post on the subject, the Star Hotel's proprietor got rather freaked out by all this Internet attention - so she told Wells she sent his hat to the Park City Police Department, and he can pick it up there.

Meanwhile, the comments on Wells' blog over this incident have produced insight, a fine cowboy poem and a pitch for Wells to star in his own reality show.