It’s a System
Friday, August 10 – Come and get ‘em, folks. The Shopping Cart is clicking right along, the mailing crew is fired up … we got us a system here.
It’s too late to get your hands on any of this batch right here, of course. These guys are already on their way to readers in forty-six states and Washington, DC, guarded by uniformed representatives of the U.S. Government.
Which reminds us. We’d like to be able to boast that we’re in all 50 states. But before we can do that we need subscribers in IN, MN, MS, and ND.
We’re going to begin by concentrating on Indiana and Minnesota. We’ve had readers in both states before; we can do it again. So you Hoosiers and Minnesotans, we’d be particularly glad to hear from you.
As for North Dakota and Mississippi, well, the homes of Deadwood [Please see "Comments." -- The Ed.] and William Faulkner belong on our mailing list, too, but we don’t expect rapid results.
That’s it for now. A few downtown distribution details to attend to …
Posted: August 10th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 5
Comments
Comment from R. Walter
Time: August 20, 2007, 10:55 pm
Um, Deadwood is in South Dakota. As the newlyweds say, “Hot Springs tonight, Deadwood tomorrow.”
A North Dakota reader of your online newspaper.
Comment from Reid Johnson
Time: August 21, 2007, 5:24 pm
ummm, Deadwood is in the Black Hills of South Dakota. But, you were just testing to see if anyone was watching. Right? How about Teddy Roosevelt National Park? That’s up there…
Best of luck.
Comment from admin
Time: August 21, 2007, 5:43 pm
To quote the distinguished scholar Homer Simpson, “Doh.” Thanks to you both for pointing out our error.
Comment from Dan Davis
Time: September 1, 2007, 2:37 pm
Deadwood is also in Oregon. It is a wide spot in highway 36 along the Siuslaw River Valley in Oregon’s Coastl Range – between Eugene and Florence. I was in grade school living there many moons ago, and it has not changed in 45+ years. Oh yeah, the gen’l store burned down ( I hear it took 3 minutes) Our main sources of entertainment were horse basketball ( only 2 of us boys in a town of 40), teasing my little brother, and swimming and catching crawdads in Deadwood Creek.
SD has nuttin over OR!
Dan
Jacksonville, Oregon
P.S. There’s a lot of deadwood in D.C. in the rotting White House, ok, everywhere now, in what used to be our city.
Comment from admin
Time: September 1, 2007, 4:32 pm
Dan – Your comment brings back fond memories. Not of Deadwood, OR – never been there. But the editor spent most of a summer thirty some-odd years ago at another “wide spot in the road,” about 400 miles east-southeast of there, over on the dry side of the state, in Fields, OR. The town was so small that when our five-man caravan moved in to do some geophysical exploration, we almost doubled the population. Frank and Josie Detz ran the combination store, diner, and motel. People would fly in and land on the Alvord Desert, a huge playa, just to get one of Josie’s burgers. One windy day, long before we got there, the Post Office, which was housed in a travel trailer, blew over.
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