When my friends Scott and Georgia Ball asked me to write an introduction to their first Scooter and Ferret book Artificially Sweetened, I had to resist the urge to look around to see who they were really talking to. After all, I'm the one who begs for introductions, not the one who writes them. But then I just decided to sit back and let my ego run with it. And run it did, at great length and (so says my ego) wit. Check it out and buy it. After you buy our new book, of course.