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I was glad to see Florence make a comeback with the "Bent Pin" column, although it isn't quite as spirited as the old "Misanthrope's Corner;" like Sherlock Holmes coming out of retirement: "The old boy was never quite the same."

Her column on the Ignos -- those bizarre entities who share our space and overlap (some of) our times, but apparently none of our culture -- was one of the best commentaries on modern human nature ever. Her description of telling an Igno that she saw "the handwriting on the wall" prompting the poor clueless little thing to literally look at the wall was a true howler, and unfortunately so typical of several of my own experiences with twentysomethings.

I find Parker's writing tedious, myself. She's mastered a style (or a style sheet) favored by Northeastern columnists that's so cookie-cutter it's not even interesting when she actually has something interesting to say. That's gotten rarer and rarer in the current cycle.