I’m a big fan of James Lileks, a writer for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis/St.Paul. I’d like to say I became familiar with Lileks during time I spent in Minneapolis in the mid-90s setting up online stock trading for American Express Financial Services, but I didn’t. I actually learned about him after the Blog Explosion [...]
My grandmother owned a ton of Hummels, and I’ve got a strange soft spot for them – enough so that I actually own a Hummel-related domain at Hummel Trader. Last week Goebel, the German manufacturer of the figurines, announced that it would cease production, after years of declining sales. I assume the decline has a [...]
