Due to the downturn in the economy our sales have dropped drastically this year, so if you like the merchandise that we carry, and all of our work in the Wallingford community, PLEASE come in and patronize us, every little sale helps! To help us weather the downturn in the economy we are moving out of our book section this week. We plan to continue carrying the same items, they will just inhabit a smaller, more cramped space. We also plan to specialize even more in the fun, wacky cards, as cards are always our best selling category, and in these tough times, people still want to give a little something. We hope to become the premiere fun, wacky greeting card shop in Seattle.

With a little luck (looks like this is going to happen), a store called Monster Clothing will be moving into the book section. Monster currently has a store in Ballard, and is a very compatible business with us. The current plan is to leave all of the interior doorways open, so when you come to visit us, be sure to check them out.

If you can't afford to shop, maybe you can help our own Number Six (a former tech guy) find outside work. Find out more about him in his blog.

And finally, for those of you who've wondered (thanks for asking!) whether our downturn in sales has anything to do with Archie McPhees moving in to the neighborhood. The answer is a big fat NO! If anything, they've been good for us. We've always had a good relationship with them, sending people back and forth.  We may look like it, but we really don't overlap that much . Anyway if someone was down in Ballard, and Archie's told them to visit us, they chance that they would was low; however with them six blocks away, people do come visit us when reccommeded by Archie's. Plus, with them around it makes Wallingford THE place to come when you want fun, wacky stuff, which is good for us and the whole neighborhood.

During the 6pm showing of Michael Moore's movie Capitalism a Love Story, we were pleased to have aa phone call from Michael Moore himself! During this conversation we asked Michael if he would support Not A Number, Inc's candidacy for Seattle City Council. He agreed to come support us when we get into full campaign mode! Our own Number Six even ran some of his own ideas by him. He even said that he might mention some of our ideas on TV. Looking forward to a mention from Michael Moore crashing our webserver!

At this showing we had about 25 people, and we were able to ask him a couple of other questions, including one regarding the Supreme Court decision around the rights of corporate free speech - the ruling that has spurred Not A Number, Inc. to run for office.

Michael urged everyone to stay active, and keep up the pressure on our legislators for change.

While sitting in Wallingford Pizza House about 10:30PM last night, we noticed a stealthy figure climbing on the roof across the street. The figure had a can of spray paint and proceeded to graffitti the wall on the roof above Starbucks. We called 911 as we watched to report graffitti in progress. The figure climbed back off the roof walked away. About 2 minutes later the police showed up and began to patrol the area. They returned about 15 minutes later with a suspect, who they apprehended with a backpack with spray paint in it.

We encourage everyone to be vigilant for this sort of thing, and when it happens call 911. The 911 operators are trained on how to route non-emergency calls, so don't worry about tieing up resources. Plus this is where the city collects data on how to assign Police resources throughout the city. So when you see something call!

In light of the January decision by the Supreme Court that corporations have the rights granted citizens under the Constitution, Not A Number, Inc. dba Not A Number Cards & Gifts has decided to form a committee to explore the possibility of running for office. The committee is forming now to explore the legal issues around this, and the potential offices.

 Current thought is to run for Seattle City Council, although other offices such as State Legislator are being considered.

Some of the issues that will need to be resolved include:

• How old does a corporation have to be to run?
• Where can a corporation run i.e. where does a corporation reside - place of business, mailing address, address of registered agent? 

One of the main platforms of Not A Number, Inc. will be that laws and/or the Constitution should be amended so that corporations are not allowed to run for office and/or corporations are taxed 100% of their revenue when they run for office.

Our campaign slogan will be "A vote for us is patently ridiculous"

Our apologies, but it appears that our website was exploited i.e. hacked in the last 2-3 weeks. We hope no one was seriously infected. We're not sure what the virus was, but it has been removed. This virus caused some problems in updating our blogs - we had wondered why we couldn't update our blogs. Moral of the story is that it is worth investigating why things appear to be running slow sometimes!

Hey, we're going to be having some ongoing in store specials. We will continue to have old political t-shirts on sale for $5.00/each. Get a grab bag for just $12.00 - 4 shirts, you pick the size, we pick the style. Every Tuesday we will be featuring buy three cards and get a fourth card free. Wednesdays will be 20% off all books.

 Stock up for next Christmas - all Holiday merchanides, including cards now on sale for 40% off.  

We'll only keep the stuff out for another week or so, so get it while you can.

Hope to see all of you this Holiday Season! This really is a make or break season for us! Remember that in this tight economy we have gifts to fit every budget. Need help coming up with ideas? Let our personal shopper help ease your stress. We also offer free gift wrapping and even shipping.

Don't forget to get your own desktop Festivus kit - the Festival for the Rest of Us.

To much to do, with too little time. Lots to write about - many thanks to those of you who voted us in as the "Best Place to Meet The Proprietors" in the Seattle Weekly Best of readers poll (you fools!).

We'll write more soon, in the meantime get your No Drickels sign (Drago or Nickels, who are both running for Seattle mayor, and neither of whom we want to see make it past the primary). 

Be seeing you!

We are very pleased to be just about done with a web redesign - about time! Our site has been LONG overdue for some major changes. You'll note a new navigation bar, more clues about our name sprinkled throughout, and some updated daily information and games. Many thanks to The Free Dictionary for the cool content. Hope you like what you find, please contact us with your feedback and suggestions. And yes we know we need to get more items online. That is one of our next big challenges. If you have certain items that you want to see online let us know. Thanks for visiting!

It was really great to hang out with Ed Begly Jr. last night. He had a lot of environmental information to share. While he was in the store he did a radio interview for Kiro , and we hope to set him up for an interview today on Komo1000. So be sure to listen for him today. Thanks again to Ed for coming and hanging out with us.  Signed copies of his book are still available.