Bagheera Discovers Fresh Catnip
"You can just buy this at the Coop—and you've never done it before? <I>What were you thinking?</I>"
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Huckleberry Helps
Huck knows exactly what the enterprising freelancer needs: A feline muse, who alternately attacks the keyboard and scrutinizes the monitor.
Backward Causality
We report, you decide.
Mmmmmm, Bacon Salt
Because everything should taste like bacon.
Who Says Jazz Isn't Commercial?
The ad team at Dolce & Gabbana seems to think it can be. Would Charles Mingus’ “Moanin’” become a best-seller if more people knew it sounded so cool—or if the millions who watched <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMWofLZ6gH8">this TV commercial</A> knew that’s what they were hearing? Could it be that jazz just needs shrewder marketing? (The whole song can be heard on Mingus’ great 1959 album, <I>Blues & Roots</I>.)
Mee-Yow!
Alexis Petridis reviews Paris Hilton's debut record. "She sings like a woman who has heard of something called singing, can't be sure of exactly what it might entail, but is fairly certain you do something a bit like this."
Missing In Action
Dear High-End Dealer,
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The eBay Voldemort Confesses
Will Collier tells the tale behind that $250 pre-publication sale of the final Harry Potter volume.
Farewell, Comma, He Said
Robert J. Samuelson laments the lapsing of the comma.