August 09, 2005
Buying Blue
Check out buyblue.org. It keeps track of the political donations of various corporations, helping consumers spend their money at places that support rather than oppose their liberal politics. Not that anyone here would be interested....
p.s. vague sense that this may have been posted before... am I hallucinating?
May 30, 2005
Oh, happy place
Glen and I found Good Goods over the weekend and thought it was wonderful. We spent the evening in Saugatuck, West Michigan's artsy/gay/alternative community and between rain showers we hit the galleries. Karen, Good Goods features one of the artists who did a room in that hotel in Iowa we stopped at. At which we stopped. Anyway....
p.s. Loved the Bruce Baughman Gallery too....
December 21, 2004
Me-Ouch!
I am so, so sorry. But I found a reference to this on Slate.com this morning, and when I saw it, I had to share. Think scary, scary Japanese anime cats for consumerist girls. This led me to the truly painful main site, where there are references to Catz, Dogz, and Foxz (sic). This is horrible, yet a part of me is thinking, oh, that is SO Yeti!
March 23, 2004
My Girlfriend Can Totally Beat Up Your Girlfriend
Not sure why I'm posting a link to the Glarkware site, only that it seems really fun and alternative and snarky and they have tee-shirts that say things like the above and "Seventies Sci-Fi Was All About Hexagons" and stuff.
Plus we haven't had a "shopping" entry in a while, have we?
BTW, I found it from Television Without Pity which is all about making fun of the current crop of popular shows and is therefore my new addiction.
February 09, 2004
No Sweat
From my dear old dad:
"Reading the Jim Hightower book I was directed to this site. Check it out. I intend to patronize it. Thought it might be of interest to your college students."
He also thought it might be of interest to my "liberal friends." What do you think, guys? Are we into sweat shop alternatives that actually PAY people?
January 27, 2004
Confessions of a Car Salesman
Buying a car soon? You'll want to read this thoughtfully-written exposé of car sales at the Edmunds site.
December 12, 2003
For the Celtic Robot in You
I came across this site accidentally, doing a search on futuristic designs from the 50s. What I found was a CafePress site run by a guy who does artwork in two categories: really pretty Celtic stuff and really neat-o "50s-vision-of-the-future" stuff. I thought it was a fascinating combination, one that really appealed to me, and I figured some of you might be intrigued as well...