Um, is it really *that* hard to make one the old-fashioned way?

These were sold at Restoration Hardware last Christmas season...along with the much more important "Emergency Coffee" tin. (BTW...I just searched to make sure of my memory, and both tins are on sale through Restoration Hardware online.)

We wanted to go beyond our earlier donation to the Alzheimer's Association (the American research charity), so my husband and I have put one of Terry's rarest books, Once More With Footnotes up for sale on eBay.

This is a charity sale, and 100% of the profits automatically go to the Association when the sale is complete (which is cool, because it means we don't ever have to play with the money). We will ship internationally, of course.

Good for him. That kind of decisive ingenuity (especially in an 11-year-old) just delights me.

Every time I show this ad in a class (usually Persuasion or Political Communication), my students are gobsmacked by the heavy-handedness of it.

Then we look at some more modern ads...