There’s a pizza place around the corner from our house that has a screen door. That’s not all that extraordinary, but I suppose it’s the location - in a strip mall - that makes the existence of that squeaky, hole-filled screen door jump out at me every time.

There are a lot of pizza places in town, but to me this one is just different.

Mostly because of the door.

It makes it feel so... down to earth.

Have you ever noticed some of the ridiculous claims people make? I was walking past the Barnes and Noble at Derby Street the other day and saw that picture on the left in the window. "The World's Best Selection of Toys and Games." Really? The world's best? What makes some marketing person at a nationwide bookstore comfortable with the claim "world's best" toy selection? It's a bookstore! And a bookstore that recently carved out half its retail space to peddle tablet computers.