So I guess you're new here.

I've sent out several dozen copies of this email today:When our studio changed its name from Mercury to Periscope, I thought we were sort of stuck with our old blog URL. Today though, I was happy to stumble upon a button in the blogspot dashboard that enables you to move your content to a new blogspot URL, and I used it. Bang! All of our content was now available at http://

Father's day.

Art Buchwald had a Thanksgiving column that he used to rerun every year. I think I'm going to approach Father's Day the same way. This was originally published in Portland Monthly magazine. (click to enlarge)$209 Round Trip.

Sad. sad.

Overheard in the Kroger's parking lot, near the undisclosed location in Ohio:Mom and son, loading groceries in their car. He's maybe fourteen, in the middle of his growth spurt.Mom: Did you finish your Spider-man book?Son: Nah, there's too many big words.