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Monday, November 5, 2007
Mind My Own Business
DEAL 1
OK, first off, you all get to send a free BOOMERANG! download to a friend. Right. Just for being you. Actually, since I probably missed your birthday as well, let’s make it 5 friends. It’s a special issue with Nikola Tesla, the new Schmave, Widg & Whack and a few other tasty bites. I will not contact them again or do anything else with their email. To DO this: 1. Send me an email (boomerang@boomkids.com). 2. Put FREEBIE as the subject. 3. Put your friend(s)’ email in the text. I will send them a short explanation and a URL. By clicking on the URL, the free issue will automatically download onto their computer. This of course means you have to revise that adage about a free lunch. And it probably wouldn’t hurt to let them know what’s coming their way..

DEAL 2
If I can herd all you guys into the download camp, I can spend less time (and money I don’t have) on getting you the real goods. Downloads are mo better all around.
A) You choose the exact programs you want – new OR old. Volume 5 & 6 will be up in November.
B) You get them WHEN you want them… in minutes
C) You can load them in an ipod OR burn a regular CD.
So, if you are currently a CD subscriber, send me an email about changing over and I’ll translate the rest of your subscription into downloads AND toss in two freebies as a thank you.

DEAL 3
If you want to buy a friend a 12-issue CD subscription ($71.40) or 9 issue download ($49.95), YOU get a new Schmave anthology with 4 of the Elevator Man’s downhome morsels.

Finally, a couple miscellaneous floaters. Some people prefer to pay monthly for CDs. Now you can. Just send me an email with shipping instructions and call with a CC#, $7.95 (including shipping) will be deducted from your account monthly... A handful of you have received cracked CDs. Sorry… I had to get out of the plastic business. If this happens to you let me know and I’ll get a cased replacement out first class the same day.

Your assignment for tomorrow?
Read to your kids – even the big ones…
stand up and be counted… tell a friend…
keep the faith. All the best,
David Strohm & Clan
 posted by Boomerang!   11:09 AM 0 Comments  
Wind in the Woods
It’s 3 am… again. The bravado I’d worked up by the end of the previous day has fled into the darkness. Like a car radio on auto-scan, my mind spins through the Wildwood of deadlines and headlines where even brave Ratty doesn’t venture without a cudgel or two. Then, finally, a warm fuzzy image comes in…. it’s my daughter, dressed for Halloween as a spoon in a set of silverware. That’s better. I bring up the friendly caw of a crow perched high atop a fir… Dire Straits singing “Romeo and Juliet”… yesterday’s 6:30 am reading session with Bo next to a woodstove... throwing Hayley a perfect TD spiral on the beach. This is how we will reclaim America from the pretenders, BOOMERS. Not by maximizing our yields, or watching reality TV, or winking at the latest boardroom crimes… but by raising our kids to be human beings who make positive choices.
 posted by Boomerang!   11:05 AM 0 Comments   Racing in the Trees
Saw Bruce the other evening. It's definitely hard for artist and audience to communicate in stadium setting. Remember BOOMERS, BOOMERANG!'s venue is akin to the little corner general store. When Bruce Springsteen was a teen, his focus was “racing in the streets.” Singing that song he seemed to recognize just how much he and his songs had changed. Just like Bruce was first delivered into this culture as a street musician spouting poetry, BOOMERANG!'s original raison d’etre was simply the creative presentation of ideas. Content took care of itself. I mean history, geography, current events, science – cut and dry, right? It sure seemed like that when I was growing up. But when a writer digs deep into material on John Brown and Corinth, Mississippi, and trade, and Sitting Bull, and the Civil War, the “cut and dry” becomes more like our everyday lives – rich… textured…murky.
 posted by Boomerang!   11:00 AM 0 Comments   Just add gravitas
I think they were dinosaurs. Well, they didn’t start OUT that way. They started out as these flat little spongy wafers. You put them in water and they magically transformed into multi-dimensional creatures. Formal education may be a bit like those wafers. You sprinkle a little BOOMERANG dust on it and the simple, one-explanation narrative morphs into a complex story with depth and multi perspectives. Do kids need the whole story? Yes… I think they do.
 posted by Boomerang!   10:41 AM 1 Comments  

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