my new blog — let me show you it

Ladies and . . . other ladies, I am pleased to announce the launch of LaidOff101.com, a community and resource site for people who have been laid off. Yours truly is a contributing author, and my first post is now online. It's titled "Invest in Loss," and it appears in the lower left-hand corner of the home page. Click on over and read it! Leave comments! Come back regularly to see fresh new content!

cheap thrills

Not reading Cheap But Not Easy? You should be. This smart, funny, articulate shopping goddess rocks, and I've actually met her in person! She's doing an experiment wherein for one year, she spends no more than $20 on anything. Very interesting. Go see.

not a lot

"I’ll say this for the quantity of pubic hair in the bathtub: it’s not a lot."

— James Lileks, trying to give a hotel room the benefit of the doubt.

And that, my friends, is why I'm willing to read every word of his blogs about What I Did on My Summer Vacation, which includes a trip to DisneyWorld. See The Bleat for details.