What, the alert reader asks, is a midriff note?

This is not a tedious process but one that, once recognized, becomes automatic with the alert reader.

They are also (the alert reader will have noticed) not seafood.

To help alert readers to an ad that looks too much like a news presentation, for instance, the word "Advertisement" must run at the top.

The alert reader now interrupts and shouts, "Wait a minute!"

Thanks to a couple of alert readers who emailed me, I tried it out tonight.

And although that person's identity - along with some other mysteries - becomes obvious to the alert reader, the ending still comes as a surprise.

I leave the problem of cutting through Superman's invulnerable skin as an exercise for the alert reader.

Now, the alert reader is probably wondering what happened to our original lucky bachelor.

(A more alert reader than I was might figure it out simply by looking at the table of contents.)