Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer spending. Companies that sell high-quality read more

Department stores during the New Year holiday looked quite busy, reflecting the recovery in consumer spending. Companies that sell high-quality goods, such as Isetan, are good picks.

We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model.

We are charging customers to sell to them. To me that seems like an inefficient model.

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high read more

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed read more

Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed from there.

I'm half Swedish and I don't like lutefisk, ... I had it as a kid Swedish lutefisk. I didn't like read more

I'm half Swedish and I don't like lutefisk, ... I had it as a kid Swedish lutefisk. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.

I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around.

I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around.

The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions read more

The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions about the wine. We consider the event to be classy but casual, meaning you don't have to be a wine aficionado to enjoy this event.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then read more

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

It's amazing how complicated this industry can make saying 'Hello,' ... actually will save consumers money because it's simple, it's read more

It's amazing how complicated this industry can make saying 'Hello,' ... actually will save consumers money because it's simple, it's any day and all day, it's straightforward.