Ruination & Despair http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog Archelaus takes a relentlessly upbeat look at operating a small greeting card business in Washington, DC. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:00:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Catch-up post no. 2 http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/04/24/catch-up-post-no-2/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/04/24/catch-up-post-no-2/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:42:54 +0000 Alethea Oglethorpe http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1838 Alethea has been after me for some time now to get these cards online, so here they are!

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. - Rebecca West There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. - Thomas Love Peacock
The only way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. - Gustave Flaubert I should prefer the Delights of a Garden to the Dominion of a World. - John Adams
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - H. H. Asquith (1852-1928) It is true, heaven forbids certain pleasures, but one manages to compromise. - Molière (1622-73)
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice. - Charles Baudelaire (1821-67)
]]> http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/04/24/catch-up-post-no-2/feed/ 0 Catch-up post http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/04/23/catch-up-post/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/04/23/catch-up-post/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:58:57 +0000 Customer Service Minion #2 http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1832 We have been remiss in failing to announce that the following new fine merchants are now carrying Archelaus cards:

We apologize for this distressing lapse.

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]]> http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/03/24/shouldnt-have-forgotten/feed/ 0 Archelaus infiltrates the restaurant world! http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/03/24/archelaus-infiltrates-the-restaurant-world/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/03/24/archelaus-infiltrates-the-restaurant-world/#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:44:30 +0000 Alethea Oglethorpe http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1820 This morning we shipped a first order of fine cards to Home at the Range (a.ka., the Range Cafe) in sunny Bernalillo, New Mexico, just north of Albuquerque. Reportedly, their gift shop carries:

a lot of surprises made in New Mexico as well as global merchandise you never thought of, and eco merchandise in growing quantity. There’s now a book department, a wide array of local art and food products, an old nail bin chock full of toys and novelties, retro candy that you haven’t seen in years, and a carefully culled selection of New Mexico wines & spirits, and boutique tequilas.

Sounds good to us!

]]> http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/03/24/archelaus-infiltrates-the-restaurant-world/feed/ 0 Another New Mexican store adds our fine cards! http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/03/22/another-new-mexican-store-adds-our-fine-cards/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/03/22/another-new-mexican-store-adds-our-fine-cards/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:57:37 +0000 Alethea Oglethorpe http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1817 This time it’s Nomades, a “wonderful fair trade shop featuring home furnishings, textiles, unique gifts, natural body products, clothing, jewelry, music and books from around the world” (or so they claim), in Albuquerque. We shipped their first order yesterday, so the cards should be available soon!

]]> http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/03/22/another-new-mexican-store-adds-our-fine-cards/feed/ 0 Dr. Hurlbutt’s quotation of the day: 4 March 2012 http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/03/04/dr-hurlbutts-quotation-of-the-day-4-march-2012/ http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/2012/03/04/dr-hurlbutts-quotation-of-the-day-4-march-2012/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:39:20 +0000 Alethea Oglethorpe http://www.archelaus-cards.com/blog/?p=1812 “I am much tempted to say of metaphysicians what Scaliger said of the Basques: ‘They are said to understand one another, but I don’t believe a word of it.’”

  —  Nicolas Chamfort (1741-94).

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