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I spent the better part of the day helping to set up for our Anniversary Sale. All books are half priced, except those listed on our Amazon web site. Basically, we hauled out all of the donated books that had been sitting on closets… Continue Reading “At the Library – Sale Weekend”
We don’t take in many small parrots, and when we do we don’t keep them very long. Easier to place, I guess. Pepito is our current resident shorty. Isn’t he darling? Pepito is pretty nippy, so he wasn’t getting much time out of the… Continue Reading “At the Refuge – Pepito”
The similarity between Heath Ledger’s Joker and Brandon Lee’s The Crow.
Back in the dark depths of winter, in my Marketing class, we did a case study on Starbucks. The case took the position that Starbucks had created a “luxury product” that anyone could afford and was selling “prestige”. I trashed it. I expressed utter… Continue Reading “More about Starbucks”
I am very sorry to be cramming another “Save the Dogs” report down your throat, but my brother went to school with the reporter on this story so I feel like posting it. Yes, he is the son of meteorologist Steve Baskerville. If you… Continue Reading “PAWS Report”
This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a tiny picture of the “Sloane Leaning Desk”, from Crate & Barrel. I don’t know why I walked into a Crate & Barrel in the first place, except that it was the Christman season. I saw this and have… Continue Reading “More Rampant Consumerism”
This morning in the Chicago Tribune, columnist Dawn Turner Trice noted that in the Declaration of Independence, the most often quoted line is about our unalienable rights. But the document actually ends with a thought about our citizen responsibilities: And for the support of… Continue Reading “Thoughts on the Declaration”
When we manage to find the right event at the right time, the Refuge will bring a few birds and make an appearance at local events. On Friday, we (and by “we” I do not by any means mean “I”) will be at the… Continue Reading “At the Refuge – Meeting the Public”
This story in the Chicago Tribune caught my eye yesterday (photo by David Maxwell of the NYT). Have you seen the new milk jugs? These are in my Costco, but not the regular grocery store. It is easy to see from the shape that… Continue Reading “Doing Something Different”
The Next Dark Age 