THIS IS WHY I LOVE THE NYTIMES

it's a nice treat to wake up and munch warm, tasty oatmeal on a cool december morning and read this in today's new york times:

"Businesses like One for the Road, with its cooler of beer and phalanx of prostitutes, depend on plant workers as customers."

i really don't ask for much in this lifetime, but if i ever, ever, command a phalanx of prostitutes, i will die a happy man. the cooler of beer, of course, certainly helps. it's a good article, though, and something to think about.... when you're not thinking about a phalanx of nigerian prostitutes, that is.