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

Howie’s birthday was last Sunday and I should have mentioned it in last week’s post, but I didn’t realize it until it’d already been published.

So join me in wishing him a very happy belated birthday!

For those of you new to this 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…)