Welcome to the fifth edition of The Three Things, brought to you by Michael Schechter, Howie Goldfarb, and me.

Before we get started, everyone wish Howie good luck on Sunday. He’s getting married! I know he’d prefer me not tell the world, but too bad! Big, big congratulations to you and Isadora!

Michael (it’s weird for me to type that; I call him Shrek) and I were talking about this series earlier this week. My sense (based on traffic and social shares) is you like it. But do let us know if there is anything you’d like to see in here that we aren’t covering.

For those of you new to the series, The Three Things arrives in your inbox on Sunday mornings (unless you don’t suscribe, but that can easily be fixed if you hurry over and enter your email address or add to your RSS feed) so you have some extra time to spend perusing the obscure content we’ve curated for you (and one another) before your week begins and deadlines, meetings, and work takes over. (more…)