Brrr!!! Here at the headquarters of The Duck & Herring Co. we’ve been wearing our scarves at our desks and making frequent use of our favorite cold weather words, words like “brisk” and “blustery.” Also “brrr!!!” which, we’ve found, is an excellent word with which to draw a warm person nearer to you. That’s the great delight of cold weather: indulging in all the many wonderful ways there are to keep yourself warm. You can probably think of a few of them off the top of your head: hot chocolate, a crackling fire, a Christmas sweater. But you’ll find dozens more in The Duck & Herring Co.’s Pocket Field Guide for Cold Weather 2008-2009, now on sale.
In this edition: stories of love and loss, pantomime gangs, underground bar fights, fashion conscious duels, and other ways to boil your blood. Plus three tummy-warming recipes, a word game, epistolary advice, our definitive guide to what it’s really colder than—and, as always, our seasonal To Dos. (We think this season’s may be the best ever.)
It’s all wrapped up in a sturdy off-white cover with a noble, barren tree on it. There’s a nail hole in the upper left-hand corner so you can always keep it handy. Sized to fit neatly in your pocket.
A small investment of $8.99 will keep you warm throughout the long winter. Pick up a dozen to stuff all those Christmas stockings—they’re the perfect size! They also make great Secret Santa gifts. Get them while they’re…cold!
The Duck & Herring Co. currently publishes its Pocket Field Guides twice a year. A subscription lasts four issues or, at our current rate, two years. It costs $32 and you don't have to pay for shipping.
Subscribe to us and we'll send you a fresh copy of the current issue. You'll enjoy it and tell your friends about it. Weeks will pass. You'll think of The Duck & Herring Co. occasionally. Then, quite honestly, you'll probably forget that you subscribed to us. And at perhaps just the right time, just when you really start to enjoy the warming weather, or just when you're in the mood to don a jacket and light a fire, you'll receive in the mail a new Pocket Field Guide with great writing, tasty recipes, seasonal must-dos, highlights in the night sky (Northern Hemisphere), comedy pieces, and more. What a pleasant surprise!
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New to The Duck & Herring Co.? Or just want to help a pal or family member catch up to the here and now of our nearly inconsequential (but still powerful!) invention known as Pocket Field Guides? A PFG Gift Pack may be just the thing for you.
We call these, our 2008 editions, The Tree Issues. Warm Weather = Leafy Tree. Cold Weather = Leafless Tree.
If that’s not brilliant enough for you, wait till you get a load of each issue’s insides (courtesy of, ahem, trees)!
Warm Weather = killer, sexy, and funny pieces from fiction talents John Brandon, Aaron Gilbreath, Graham Hillard, Johnny Pence, Mike Sacks, and Michael Stutz; warm-weather recipes, beach bag advice, outdoor tips from the entertaining D&H editors, highlights in the night sky, and the best list of seasonal to-dos EVER.
Cold Weather = stories of love and loss, pantomime gangs, underground bar fights, fashion conscious duels, and other ways to boil your blood; three tummy-warming recipes, a word game, epistolary advice, our definitive guide to what it’s really colder than—and, as always, our seasonal To Dos. (We think this season's may be the best EVER. EVER!)
Both PFGs designed to fit in your pocket. Side by side, they match.
A small investment of $13.99 will get you this 2008 pack—for yourself, or as a wholly original stocking stuffer for a season-loving, literary friend.
During the warm weather of ought-seven, the editors of The Duck & Herring Co. passed many a sweaty afternoon in the dining room of the late Joel Chandler Harris, best known as the author of the Br’er Rabbit stories. His home is now a museum known as The Wren’s Nest, a sanctuary for storytelling.
The editors of the world-famous Pocket Field Guide were there with The Wren’s Nest Publishing Co., a group of fresh-faced high school editors from all across metropolitan Atlanta. Over the course of the summer, these young editors produced their own literary magazine, one so well crafted and designed that The Duck & Herring Co. briefly considered halting the entire endeavor before they surpassed us and made us their interns. But following the advice of an old salt with strong opinions regarding how close one should keep one’s competition—opinions expressed with, it must be said, a rather ribald vocabulary—we carried on, and at the end of the summer, the student editors launched Soy Nut Butter at the Decatur Book Festival.
Now you can have your own copy of this fine collection of short fiction, poetry, photography, and thoughts on America’s second favorite alternative to peanut butter (following salted, roasted almond butter). The $5 purchase price will support next summer’s student editors and is tax deductible as a contribution to The Wren’s Nest.
Go buy it now, then come back (please) for your PFG.
We have a vision that one day we'll offer a full catalog of seasonal gear for all your wardrobe needs. But a company has got to start somewhere, and we're starting right here, selling t-shirts with our logo on it, through CafePress.com.
Men, a personal question: Do you have a t-shirt with a fish on it? If you don't, how can you call yourself a man?
And ladies, do you have a t-shirt or wife-beater with a mallard in flight across your breast? Of course you don't.
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