We’ve started the New Year with a bang here at Foolish Times—and a reminder that firecrackers are best enjoyed OUTSIDE the office. Anyway, just listen to these story titles, and tell me you don’t want to jump right in and start your New Year’s worth of Foolish reading: “Fire Training,” “The Glass Slipper and the Codpiece,” “Womentoiletopia,” “Writimus Blockosis,” and “Job Hopping in the Ancient World,” a hilarious short story by newcomer Andrew Grossman. We’ll be featuring lots of new writers this year, in fact. But don’t fret—we still have all the usual suspects: Rex, Clair Voyant, Anonymous, the Unknown Cartoonist, and Sir Henry de Tunahuna. I dare you to find a more colorful lineup in all the California Territory. Thanks for reading us so faithfully, and stay tuned: we have big plans for 2009, and anyway, you don’t want to be out of tune.