First of all, I want to thank all of you that have already been supporting the site through visiting the advertisers, buying t-shirts and coffee mugs, using Powell Books to purchase books and DVD’s, linking to the site, telling your friends about BT, and just by writing diaries and comments and making this community great.
Many of you have asked how you could be supportive without having to buy stuff you don’t need. Wolverine and I put our heads together and came up with an idea. What could people buy that doesn’t take up much space? Eureka! A bumper sticker!
If you visit the store you’ll see that we have two new bumper stickers available. The black and white one is offered for a reasonable $5. You can tell your neighbors what you think about Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, Duke Cunningham, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and the rest of the crooks running our country.
But for those of you that would like to make a more substantial contribution to the BT community, we offer the full-color version for $25. It’s a way for me to offer something tangible in return for your generosity.
The financial side of the site is starting to improve after a dismal August. We upgraded the server, doubling the costs, but also really improving the speed of the site. Blogads have come back, I just got my first check from Google, and the Powell sales have been surprisingly strong. I just may be able to pull this off. Thanks again for all your good-will and support. And, as always, thanks to Susan, who is the straw that stirs the pond.
Boo
Hey, Boo! My straw is striking bottom! Restock the pond, please! — how about some of that delicious-looking Absolut?!
no stinking black and white bumper sticker. I’ll have a colored one, as soon as the wife gives me back the credit card, pilgrim.
Hope you are rolling in it soon BooMan. Can’t think of a more deserving place for capital than the Frog Pond.
Nice stirring Susan. Just right.
OT, but I just got it . . . I think. At long last, sir.
BostonJoe is Joseph Welch.
D’uh.
Took me a bit to catch on to that too, don’t worry- we can’t catch it all,even if we are muses.
My muse is Terpsichore in case anyone was wondering.
Mine, too, especially since I spent a number of years writing as a dance critic. If I ever see “The Nutcracker” again, it will be too soon.
The moment I’ve been waiting for!
But, um…the store lists these bumper stickers as weighing 24.5 lbs each.
I will assume that is a typo, but it makes the shipping calculation go all to hell.
I love ya BooMan, but I’m not paying $50 to get 3 bumper stickers shipped to me 🙂
to tell Wolverine to change that to something more reasonable: like grams 🙂
It’s the “secret” shipping total that allows me to process an order with no shipping charges. Follow the checkout through and your shipping total will be zero.
Ah, I see.
But it appears that if I wanted to order 3, I would have to submit 3 separate orders. Yes?
orders. Hmmm. I can take care of that. Give me a few.
But it isn’t really that big of a deal. I can do 3 separate orders.
I was just thinking that you might want to include something about that in the description, if it had to be that way.
I can wait though =D
purchase options.
What do you mean by multiple purchase options?
I still get this if I try to put 3 in my cart:
It does correctly put $0.00 for shipping if I only put 1 in there.
choose the option to buy three all at once. It may not have shown up when you went back in to look, it takes a few minutes for the site to update when I make a change. Should be viewable to you now.
You’re right, those options weren’t there when I first went back.
Done and done! Thanks!
What am I gonna do with a 24.5 pound bumper sticker? OH– I know– I can tape it to my bra.
self-adhesive, and all. No tape required. ;]
Oh no… i just got a bad memory flash from the hospital. They took off the EKG cords but the little sticky things were all over me, and they migrated… and one ended up in a sensitive area. Oh yes. Oh it hurt.
OUCH!!!
JEEBUS– OWEEEEE
Did you ever find one of those things on your back, say, two weeks after leaving the hospital? Don’t tell anybody. (Yes, I do bathe and shower, and yet…)
I plan many trips to Powell’s. No sense going through Amazon. But I don’t have a car anymore. What’s another way? Did you consider selling memberships like kos did?
I so enjoy reading this site.
I will be making a visit to the store over the weekend. Can put that bumper sticker right next to my Out Of Iraq Now sticker! Glad things are perking up for you Boo. You know we all love this place…you control freak you<snark>
I have said this before– I don’t need any more stuff-suppose I could send mugs or t-shirts to himmicaine victims…Is there a place I can send support w/o acquiring more stuff?
is about as good as I can think of. You can always shove it in a drawer, use it as a bookmark, or just toss it out. It’s all legal tax compliance and anti-fraud stuff. I cannot accept money for nothing. It protects consumers from scam artists, I guess.
OHHH -OK- sorry to seem whiny- I did not know that–gotcha.
no problem. I think it was your earlier post on this that spurred us to come up with a solution. What would shycat accept that wouldn’t clutter up her house? Kidding. There were several people that shared your view about not wanting stuff they didn’t need. So, we came up with this as the best solution we could think of.
Alrighty- one full color bookmark ordered- heh to you too!
thank you so much!
I put this on the Delay open thread but y’all must be eating dinner. The icing on the cake is her source relesed her to talk and it is none other than Scooter Libby. Sure do wonder still why John Bolton went to visit her about a week ago. Did he make a deal with her?
Did the inmates knit HER a poncho too?
(Yeah, as if! Oh god, I’d kill to interview some of those inmates…)
I sure hope so Susan because she will certainly be getting the cold shoulder in DC after she finally testifies. Wonder what Fitz has up his sleeve.
I’ve got a friend and his wife — who just moved from here to Chicago — checking the Chicago news on Fitzgerald for me.
He was a cool guy. Radiologist who yearned fora big-city practice. He and I went to some Howard Dean training sessions.
Well, this is good news. I was planning to factor something into October’s budget to help pay for BooMan’s $110 train ticket to DC. Now, I’ll go look at what’s in the shop windows . . .
Tomorrow is payday, I’ll be sure to pay the BooStore a visit. For now, I’m off to click some ads. (hint, hint. wink, wink) 😛
Speaking of ads, that picture of Harry Belafonte makes him look just like James Carville. Maybe they were separated at birth?
perhaps there are three and Fire Marshal Bill is their triplet? Couldn’t resist that one.
I just ordered my bumpersticker!
I have been clicking on the Powell’s ads like crazy. I put in my first order and on the form said that Booman is where I first heard of them (not exactly true). But I am still waiting for them to deliver it. I hope that all goes well. If it does I will swear off Amazon forever.
I have ordered from Powell’s prior to their appearance here, and had great results. I think with their shrink wrap packaging system the order could be dropped by plane and still arrive in pristine condition.
For the committment challenged folks 😉
And where are the boxer shorts, hmmmmm?