Franklin Crawford

Tiny Town, USA --  Are you in your pajamas? What's in a biz card nowadays?

Plenty.

For instance, the entire back of the ttt card shown above can be used to do simple  math, write down another number or pick your teeth.

This card means a lot to us here.

And if C. Penbroke may get a little sentimental for a moment (I will anyway so go back to sleep), having a card reminds me a great deal of finding a stash of my own father's business cards in his desk. They were simple:

ALBERT C. CRAWFORD

BUILDER 

The letters were slightly embossed. The card had our phone number and address on it.

My father was important! WE were important! 

We think our card, designed by Rigel Stuhmiller, nee Belinda Cho, is elegant, tasteful and gets the job done.

Remember: we too, at TinyTownTimes.com, are builders.

– C. Penbroke Handy  

TINY TOWN, USA –– Take a look! We're improving our Web Site. There's our designer Belinda Cho making magic happen in the TTT clean room on the left.

In the middle is Jock Poseidon, our local fish monger. Here at the TTT offices we usually send out for lunch owing to our intense schedules.

Poz, as we call him, dips his line in a local creek and always cooks up something fresh. We think it is important to support the local economy and we tip generously.

On the far right, well ...

We need a plumber. We put a lot of our grant money into the clean room and research and the rest of the place could use ... a tender touch.

Stay tuned for more updates.

–– C. Penbroke Handy

TINY TOWN, USA – Readers are already curious about where we are located and what kind of office space we use and is it forced air heating or radiant and does the roof giggle and do you have a co-ed employee toilet, etc.

At left, observe our reception area, with Chad Coles, director of public relations and advertising there in the striped shirt.

Chad is worried about his weight so we recommended he go wth the vertical stripes for this picture, which he did not want to be in.

We said: "Chad, we understand your reticence and recognize your need for privacy but we would also appreciate our director of PR and Ads to put on the ol' public face now and then. After all, we can't hide behind our laptops all the time."

Chad, blushing like a bride with a herpes sore, acquiesced.

Between the bar and the unhinged door you will see a prototype issue of tinytowntimes that we rejected as too traditional although we liked the fact that it was almost unreadable. 

Yes, that is a Franklin Stove on the left. The landlord said we shouldn't use it as there isn't any flue or chimney.

As the summer nights have been chilly, we have, admittedly, burned copies of local newspapers and some books like Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace, decadent materials both of them. We also tried to burn the complete works of Mary McCarthy for no damn good reason at all but that we found them in the basement.

The smoke damned near killed us, the books were damp, and we're still airing the place out, hence the door. The windows are nailed shut for security purposes. 

The room on the other side of the door looks like this: 

As you can see, it is almost a scale model of the other room, and Chad is in there, too.

And so are We (in the creative white space to the right). That is, us, the editorial staff at tinytowntimes.com.

Now, if that isn't META enough for your post-post-modern positivist realist ass, get a move on. We've got work to do.

–– C. Penbroke Handy, asso. adminstrator

–– Chad Coles, PR, AdQ and S&M 

 ps: the roof does not giggle, but in a high wind, whispers "Mary." 

TINY TOWN, USA –– Tinytowntimes.com launched a preemptive advertising campaign in advance of its official September splash sensing that after just one week of activity it was all carpe diem and no looking back. Some test ads have already been circulated to the "media" and other social networking tools. 

The Research and Development team are eager to hear from readers who feel slighted, insulted, left out, embarassed, disappointed, bored, irritable or otherwise not content with the nature of these ads. 

Whatever your response, you can reach the TTT.com crew by clicking on "Contact Us" under ABOUT TTT.COM at the top of the menu on the left hand side of your screen.

See you all on the friendly fields of strife. 

–– C. Penbroke Handy, asso. managing editor