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For several weeks it seemed the Shaker thang going down around here was just another flash-in-the-pan San Francisco quirk:

But now our correspondents are chiming in about similar happenings from the sidewalks of Milan:

…to the boutiques of Shibuya:

Now the pattern is clear. For Spring 2007, woodcut is the new black. You heard it here first.

Hemingway wrote a classic 6-word story, supposedly on a bet: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” (In my book, just one supershort story tops that: Julius Caesar’s classic “Veni, vidi, vici.”)

Flickr’s Caterina Fake sent out a call for new 6-word stories. What fun! I threw these into the mix:

• This Kool Aid tastes like cyanide.
• America goes the way of Rome.
• Sting ray fells hunter of crocs.
• I’m sorry, that lump is cancer.
• Boy meets girl. Girl sautees boy.