A fool & his soul are soon parted ...

We have a strange foreboding about this guy's future.

Some people in need of a change get haircuts.

Others might splurge on a new shirt or throw caution completely to the wind and take a different way to work in the morning.

Gerald Fraller, however, sells his mortal soul on the Web. Literally.

Fraller, a 28-year-old guy from Tampa, Fla., is hawking his soul online because, he says, it's worth more than anything else he's got, TBO.com reports.

“I’m simply at a point in my life where I need a new direction and I am selling the most valuable item I have to offer: my very soul,” says Fraller on his Web site www.winmysoul.com.

It's a lottery for a chance to claim his soul, the winner to be announced sometime before January 30, 2007. What does it mean, exactly?

For just a dollar, interested buyers get one entry in a drawing to win a legal contract entitling them to specifically designated controls over and profits from Fraller's very existence, including a percentage of his taxable income, the right to choose the first name of his kiddos and an annual report on his life, among other colorful benefits.

No doubt there is some lucky devil who will end up with Gerald's soul. He isn't married, which any idiot could figure out immediately because if he had a wife she'd be letting him know PDQ what a stupid idea this is. (Or worse, he'd be trying to sell her soul!)

Funny thing about souls. Sooner or later you are going to wish you had it back.