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Article: Houston Chronicle Jim Barlow Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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Apr. 6--PRODUCTS FOR THOSE WITH UNUSUAL TASTE: Twelve times a year, I write about the boondoggles and braggadocios of business in a column called Weird Business News.
It's a relief from the serious subjects found on these pages.
Paul Lukas makes his living at it. He's the publisher of Beer Frame: The Journal of Inconspicuous Consumption, a columnist for New York magazine and a commentator on the cable channel CNNfn's Biz Buz.
Now his work is collected in a book, Inconspicuous Consumption. An Obsessive Look at the Stuff We Take for Granted, from the Everyday to the Obscure (Crown Trade Paperbacks, $12.95).
So what's it all about? Lukas ...