"Behold the fluorescent glory of the ECHO PARK TIME TRAVEL MART Marquee. Check it out in person at 1714 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. The store will open full time on January 15th, 2008."
Just opened in Los Angeles: The Echo Park Time Travel Mart, specializing in everything you need for time travel, such as Mammoth Chunks, Barbarian Repellent (warning: doesn't work for Ostrogoth), and Time-Freezy Hyper Slushy drink.
The Echo Park Time Travel Mart is a brainchild of Mac Bernett of 826LA, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting kids explore creative writing and helping teachers inspire their students to write. 826LA is looking for someone to help run the Echo Park Time Travel Mart If you knew this already through your time traveling, then you'd be the right person!
Links: Introducing the Echo Park Time Travel Mart at Stefan G. Bucher's Daily Monster Blog | Photo Gallery | 826LA website
Non-profit of not, somebody is attempting to make a bunch of cash off of this sham -- soaking taxpayers for state and local funds to run it. Take a look at the 826LA website -- one of the big job requirements is grant writing.
What a silly field trip to take the kids on. Take the kids to a real museum or historical site.
Friends of mine got money from companies looking to invest in green energy and they used that money to train underage offenders in bike repair. So they get junked bike parts, the kids build bikes for themselves, learn a decent skill, get transportation and all during their community service. Then the kids come back and train other kids to fix bikes.
This guy comes up with a "time travel mart." You know, he's a jackass.
I'm sure this place wouldn't be used for older children, and a lot of the museums and historical sites children are taken to when they're younger probably won't be relevant to what they're learning for years. At my old school, we used to go on trips to the zoo to learn about the animals, and also to old country houses for history. Guess which one I remember most about?
Anyway, it's a cool idea, and it's refreshing to see something different once in a while.
http://www.greenwoodspacetravelsupply.com/
It's for kids and for teachers to pick up things not normally in the curriculum. I'm all for it.
its a just joke; duhhh.
826 is a project started by author Dave Eggers. After publishing a bestselling novel he wanted to use the $$ to give something back to his community, so he started a tutoring center for kids in San Francisco. They could come in after school and get help with writing, both essays and creative stuff.
To add a bit of fun and satisfy the retail zoning they opened a Pirate Supply Store. Kids LOVE it and stop in all the time, which is unlike any other tutoring center I've heard of.
Based on the huge success of the first location -- they attracted hundreds of highly qualified volunteers -- they opened locations around the country. The latest is this time travel mart in my neighborhood, and I'm thrilled to see them here.
I couldn't even get a straight info on whose idea it was that started the Time Travel Mart thing.
Flickr photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/simmermon/sets/72157594462555832/
Curious about the barbarian repellent, but nothing beats a sword. Well, maybe an axe, if it's awesome enough....
4. Skitt’s Law
Expressed as "any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself" or "the likelihood of an error in a post is directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster."
It is an online version of the proofreading truism Muphry’s Law, also known as Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation: "any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror"
Your error was in using commas in your first clause, when a parenthetical would have been preferable. ;)