Ebooks have received strange print press over the past two weeks. First, this article in the WSJ that takes a gee-whiz approach to matters that are constantly and exhaustively discussed online, usually absent from the writing of someone that embraces brevity (like Walter Mossberg, ostensibly the WSJ’s tech columnist), and then this past week a bizarre article in the New York Times‘ Fashion & Style section. An excerpt from the latter: “And as books migrate from paper, it means the death of the pickup line, ‘Oh, I see you’re reading the latest (insert highbrow title here).’”

When I read the above quote, I quickly checked the page header to make sure I was still reading the Times and hadn’t been bumped to some other site. I completely understand that, to many, ereaders fall on aesthetic, and not utilitarian (at least not until they actually fork over the money for one), concerns, but the rest of the Times‘ article is about as informative about either as that quote. Joe Wikert over at Kindleville had a good time carving a jack-o-lantern out of the expressed sentiments.