Scenes from Buyback Spring 2010
Buybacks are rocking this semester. This promises to be our biggest semester yet! Here are some early shots coming in from around the Buyback Map.
Bottles hanging over Emory Univ. in Atlanta.
ARROOOOOOOOW!!!
ARROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!
Underground Coffeehouse. Searcy, AR.
Special Buyback Helpers at Harding.
The Harding Billboard Car.
The Harding Billboard Car, part 2.
Sewanee Rock Pose!
The NEMCC buyback team posters their car in response to the Harding team.
What do you think?
We would take more pictures but we’re too busy buying books!!!
Jenny Tell the Truth
The most ridiculous of our new flyers also has a story behind it. Jenny, Tell the Truth:
Jenny Tell the Truth
On our drive to the warehouse, there’s a sign where people can leave various messages to friends. One says “I love SARAH” in big colorful letters. Then there’s “Jenny Tell the Truth,” scrawled in Sharpie on a white background.
We have no idea who Jenny is (or if she ever ended up telling the truth), but the phrase “Jenny, Tell the Truth” worked its way onto one of our flyers and is now going out to campuses across the country. It’s also becoming a byword around the office for encouraging people to be honest. You really ate the whole thing? Jenny, tell the truth.
Poor Jenny.
Wacky Flyers Spring 2010
A few months ago, I printed off about a hundred public domain images from the Library of Congress and invited my colleagues to create funny/ridiculous captions for them. Ryan took the best captions and created band-style flyers out of them, some of which I’ve posted in our Flickr stream and below.
Next semester we’ll post the images and let YOU take a crack at writing the wacky captions.
Professors
Tickle
Velocipede
Boxer
FannyPack
BookFool’s First Annual April Fools’ Day Cookout
What better day to celebrate our corporate Foolishness? We invited friends, employees, vendors, and neighbors to our new warehouse for burgers, dogs, veggie burgers, veggie dogs, chips (my favorite), and more. Our Chief Fool gave a rousing speech on the value of individualism. We even raffled off some BookFool swag, including a free book of your choice from anywhere in our warehouse.
And wouldn’t you know it? Our only camera died at the beginning of the event. Below are the few shots we got, followed by a quick video of some pre-party Foolishness.
Thanks to everyone who came out. We packed the place! And next year will be even bigger. We’re planning some entertainment, maybe a contest or two.
The early arrivals, just getting warmed up.
Grillin' buddies. The aprons were hilarious. The little one said "Little Chef" and the big one, well, "Big Chef."
And the video:
Book’em’s Read Me Week 2010
The BookFools were honored to participate in Book’em‘s Read Me Week this year at Caldwell Enhanced Option School. NPT put together a post that explains this amazing event in more detail. I just want to share a few pics and make a related announcement:
BookFool.com has officially chosen Book’em as our outlet for charitable giving and corporate volunteering. Book’em’s mission is to distribute books to underprivileged local children and to provide reading volunteers to area schools to encourage a lifelong love of reading.
About a month ago, we met with Book’em Executive Director Melissa Spradlin to discuss their plans and to brainstorm how we might work together. We are very impressed with Book’em’s mission, passion, and efficiency in getting books into the hands of young readers and hope this will be a fruitful partnership for many years.
If would like to get involved with this worthy non-profit yourself, visit their website for some ideas.
And now, the pictures.
Farmer Jason really brought down the house.
Jumping to the music.
Expounding upon the joys of reading.
Mixing it up with this motley crew.
