Hello, readers!
As you know, the holiday season is upon us. Posting has been light around here of late due to professional obligations, health care issues, and the usual hubbly bubbly of the season, but we should be back in full swing by the start of 2013 with all your favorite features: impotent political posturing, incomprehensible quasi-‘jokes’, and in-depth reviews of things you’ve never heard of.
In the meantime, though, if you’re at a loss for what to give your loved ones, family members, co-workers, or resentful neighbors for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ashura, Winter Solstice or Taiwanese Constitution Day, why not consider one of the many fine products and services offered by this very website? They’ll make your holidays happier, and mine too, because money!
First of all, if you enjoy crime dramas, insightful pop cultural criticism, or photographs of Joe Pesci getting his brains blown out, you are the ideal reader for my book, If You Like The Sopranos. Plenty of copies are still available from your favorite physical or on-line book retailer, or from the publisher; check out the details here.
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Thanks for your kind custom, folks, and happy holidays!