And now for something completely different...

As an alum of the Time Inc. magazine empire and of the Time-Life Alumni Society, I get an occasional newsletter with news of what ex-Time Inc.-ers are up to. A recent newsletter noted that a former person from Time magazine's editorial side, Ina Saltz, has published a book called Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh, which is described as "the first book on typographic tattoos." (Hey, it's still art, just of a different sort. And on skin. Hmm.) The item also mentioned that she signed books at the "Inkslingers Ball," the world's largest tattoo convention. As a financial journalist, I know all about The Predator's Ball, the book by Connie Bruck, (who has a great article about microcredit in this week's New Yorker), but this event sounds far, far more interesting, if, perhaps a little scary for a non-tattoo type, whatever that means. If that isn't worthy of a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece, I don't know what is!