The Dead Hand

I participated in something extraordinary last night. The American Heart Association threw its 23rd annual Chicago Heart Ball. The proceedings included several live and silent auctions of rather choice donated items, and hundreds of Chicagoland's moneyed Read More

Forget pumpkin pie. Pumpkins are late-comers, upstarts, and may only be forgiven their intrusion on the Thanksgiving sideboard in consideration of the sensible avoidance of unnecessary Halloween waste. You haven't truly experienced the sentimental—nay, Read More

Well, Unity's been up for pushing 24 hours, and so far not a single post. It isn't for lack of effort on my part; I have e-mailed every blogger on my links list, asking them to announce its presence, and have issued a number of direct invitations to various Read More

I've got a useful little blurb on travel insurance over at the e-Insure Journal. Go read it. Spend some money while you're there. Read More

Yet another trend screaming at us out of Japan... I can practically read Corey's mind: what about the market for a pillow-shaped man? Read More

Spooky time-traveler note: On 10/31/2005—that's Halloween, for the calendrically-challenged—Google e-mailed me to announce that the penultimate paragraph in this post, which encourages clicks on Google ads, is in violation of the AdSense program Read More