Note to DWR

While it might take a second or 2, people will realize that the price in red is still the same as the regular price..."Clearance" is generally accepted to mean that prices will actually be reduced from the original.

Best Taxidermy ever!!

OK this is seriously the most awe inspiring Taxidermy I have ever seen. Thanks to D and M at Curious Expeditions
What a bucolic vignette.....the little fox wandering off to bed with his stuffed duck......this would make a great series of children's books.

Sonofabitch!

OK so yes I AM 6'3....so if you are looking down and I come up to your cosmetics counter at the department store, you might possibly assume I am a man because all you see in your peripheral vision is a tall looming figure, ...its happened before and I don't begrudge you the mistake.

The only way you would STILL mistake me for a man is if you were functionally blind, or had an advanced case of Alzheimers....but if that were the case you probably would be unable to dress yourself....so you likely would not be working at a department store in the first place.....but I digress....

Now if you work for the American Red Cross and you've called me up and asked me to come donate blood during my holiday vacation, and I am sitting beside you and you've looked up my information on your computer, you do not ask me "It says here you are a female, is that correct?"


Believe me, this is not the way to win friends and influence people.....or blood donors

Sign me,
Future customer of the plasma center

White Privilege vis-a-vis the Election

really good article:

http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/viewCommentary/3618/1

At lease he didn't die on my birthday

Jack Weil : Fashion inventor

Man, I love his shirts. I got one at the Cowboy Museum in OKC a few years back, its so thoughtfully made and they last forever. Plus the snaps never fall off, and the Rockmount label is so retro cool....even though its the same design they have always used.

From the Economist obit:

"Until he created his shirts, there was no distinctively western look in American couture. There were cowboys; but they wore dusty working clothes, accessorised with sweaty bandannas and clanking spurs, that no one much cared to copy. Indeed, Mr Weil early on in his career made work-gear for cowboys, and learnt an important fact: they had no money. If he wanted to make any money himself, he would have to appeal not to the catwalk instincts of cattlemen, which were hard to spot, but to wannabe easterner cowboys who lived in, say, New York. Fortunately, there were plenty of them."

Read more here:
http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12000749

Aww! Finally some Good news about Nature

Has there ever been a more adorable picture of a Gorilla? I don't think so!....He just makes you wanna run up and squeeze him!
I'll be the first to admit that Gorillas usually don't invoke the usual "Gosh how cute" feeling of Puppies or Bunnies....this photo is the exception.

But I digress, read more here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/05/congo.gorillas/index.html

Who would have thought one of the signs of the apocalypse would come from Sweden?

Its not like there aren't plenty of luxury good out there...its just that they generally don't start off telling you the price of the item in the ad.
Hastens has chosen to lead off with the price which in this case is pretty exorbitant. And pretty offensive.

Good taste dictates that while the wealthy among us have plenty of money to spend on themselves they don't go around shouting about exactly how much they are spending.

Hmmmm...do I want to spend $64,950.00 on a bed? or would I prefer to save 100 starving African children....I'm going to have to think about that one...