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I’m a firm believer in rela­tion­ship buy­ing. There are two huge home improve­ment chains less than two miles from my house. There is also a tiny hard­ware store that’s been family-owned for decades. The build­ing is dec­o­rated with fam­ily pho­tos, old signs (the real ones, not the faux ones), and notes from cus­tomers. Every­thing in …

John Green has been talk­ing about the future of the book on his blog. Like many, John pre­dicts that the book­store an entity will dis­ap­pear, much the way that the cor­ner record store went away. I bet him a clas­sic comic that his dire pre­dic­tion was wrong. If I’m wrong and still ambu­la­tory in 10 …

Harper­Collins has redesigned it’s author pages, and they look mar­velous, if I do say so myself. Check it out for bios, new books, con­tests, and more.Here’s mine, with a snazzy photo and my per­sonal 6-word memoir.

In his best per­for­mance since “Rocket Man,”  The Nego­tia­tor resprises Sarah Palin’s res­ig­na­tion speech. Take that, Klingon.