Hey, look at Jim's photography portfolio! It's really good.  Wait: if only Jim reads my blog, and I tell everyone on my blog to look at Jim's portfolio, does it make a sound?

Are low real-estate costs a good reason to move somewhere if the reason real-estate costs are so low is because nobody wants to live there?

Listen, Bill Simmons: I have enough of a hard time generating content for my website as it is without you stealing my idea to update your readers on what former cast members of The Wire are up to.  Please go back to justifying how your pick of Kevin Garnett as NBA MVP wasn't a homer pick, please. (PS: Love your columns.)

I wanted to congratulate Karl Voigtland and his wife for convincing me they weren't Gerard Depardieu and Andie McDowell by successfully procreating, but then I realized I didn't know how to spell her name.  Sinai? Sanai? Sinay?

And finally: unemployment beard!