NaBloPoMo – #6 Saddest American Story…EVAR

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A few days ago, an American Institution died.

“Union Products Inc. stopped producing flamingos and other lawn ornaments at its Leominster factory in June, and is going out of business Nov. 1 — a victim of rising expenses for plastic resin and electricity, as well financing problems…

‘We think the flamingo will go on,’ Keith Marshall, Union Products’ chief financial officer, said at the company’s aging brick factory, where just a few years ago more than 100 employees churned out flamingos by the millions.”

Who knew extinction was lurking right around the corner for these poor lawn flamingos? This is a cruel world my friends. Cruel. First we had to bid Habeus Corpus adieu, and now this.

Apparently the new wave of lawn flamingos are now fabricated in Asia. Go, go gadget outsourcing!

Today’s whittle will come at a later this evening. I need to get my ass to the Gears of War launch party and score some schwag. Maybe I can score my whittling material from there as well.

–edit update–

So I’m a little sauced right now thanks to Microsoft. But I did score a copy of Gears of War and a wireless 360 headset, and a t-shirt that says “I’m an achievement whore.” So, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad! Though I must say, MS is a big fan of having tons of green crazy lights at these sort of events. But in all seriousness, those lights just add to the BTU in the room and raise the BO quotient. So in honor of Microsoft, I whittled a 360 controller out of some of PJ’s deodorant:

[Xbox 360 Controller. Degree Deodorant]

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