And organic milk, Whole Foods and even Mini Coopers (yes, I'm thinking that it might be my next car -- preferably the nightfire red). What's this confession all about? Well, apparently, Glenn Beck freaked out the lefties by being spotted using a Moleskine. And evidently, Moleskines are the domain of the left:
Glenn Beck is a racist who is encouraging people to harm liberals. The fact that he likes moleskines is shocking to me. They are associated with liberal minded, intellectuals. Not the people he appeals to. This makes me almost want to thow away all my moleskines and never use them again.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I've been using them for years! I love my Moleskine notebooks and used them throughout the years at Westminster (I like the Moleskine Squared Notebook), they are great for taking notes. I also carry around the smaller Moleskine Square Notebook Pocket. I've had it since 2004. I'm currently using the grid notebooks for writing a Bible study (the Gospel of John). I love the pocket in the back, very convenient to store my index cards with to do lists and questions I need to answer. (BTW, when in public, I don't use my notebook with an Apple computer, but I do use it with my iTouch, which has an ESV Bible app).
I like Moleskins so much, I even bought the ESV Moleskin Bible (the ESV Journaling Bible), but was bummed it didn't have a back pocket for notes.
BTW, the Field Notes linked to in the article looks tempting (I like that they're made in the USA), if they make it to a Barnes and Noble or Borders near me, I might buy them as well. Sorry, lefties but you guys can't have the cute notebooks to yourselves, they belong to us as well :-)
I don't have enough clout to get it repaired. I don't have a million Twitter followers and a blog with a huge following, so if I have a problem with it and complain, the "manager of the executive office" from Maytag's parent company isn't going to call and make it all better for me. I'm not going to get offered a new appliance because of the hoopla I created. I'd be stuck waiting for the repairman just like everyone else.
Maytag's attempt to fix the problem didn't really help their bigger problem of rebranding. Now they're the company that allows a washing machine to go unrepaired for almost a month instead of the company that makes dependable washing machines, I now have a new narrative associated with them.
Now, I know what happened to a sleep-deprived mom of an infant who needed her brand new $1300 washing machine repaired and how the repairman came to her house three times over a 23 day span and the washer still didn't work. I know now that a sleep-deprived mom who needed her brand new Maytag washing machine was told that she would have to wait 3-5 days for a repairman to fix the machine that wasn't repaired by the last repairman even though she had been waiting close to a month. And she was also told that company policy dictated that they couldn't replace it until there were three attempts at a fix and even though the repairman was there three times, he was only on his first attempt. Yes, 23 days, 3 visits and 1 attempted repair. And they wanted her to repeat this cycle two more times? (Without giving her a loaner!)
What about the commercial where the repairman is bored and has nothing to do because the machines are so dependable? Evidently, that's a crock since you can't get a repairman right away, it takes them three to five days to schedule work on a brand new $1300 washing machine. Must be some kind of backlog, huh?
That narrative will stick with me when I go to the store to purchase a new washing machine. They should have listened to the very famous blogger when she said she had a million followers on Twitter, now the story's out and I could care less that they fixed her machine since I know it's only because it made a big enough noise.
Pole Dancer doll and a tassel t-shirt for tots! I wonder about parents that would buy a Pole Dancer doll for their kids. Why? Children shouldn't have any idea what a pole dancer is.
She was plugging the new documentary on Vogue magazine's 2007 issue. It was as big as a phone book, their biggest issue ever (weighing 4 lbs.) and sold 13 million copies. Here's the trailer:
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Or had chemo treatments. It's funny, my eyebrows and lashes lasted until graduation and then I lost almost all of the hair except for a few strands. The hair is returning very slowly, but until then I can make a fashion statement :-)
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), they are great for taking notes. I also carry around the smaller Moleskine Square Notebook Pocket
. I've had it since 2004. I'm currently using the grid notebooks for writing a Bible study (the Gospel of John). I love the pocket in the back, very convenient to store my index cards with to do lists and questions I need to answer. (BTW, when in public, I don't use my notebook with an Apple computer, but I do use it with my iTouch, which has an ESV Bible app).
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