outlets

We went to the Wrentham outlets yesterday. Now, I'm not generally one to get all frothy about any sort of retail experience, but outlet shopping really makes me happy. I really only get the initiative to shop twice a year, and I generally go outlet shopping, so that I can go to a variety of places at once; malls make me feel psychologically bombarded, and I always feel ripped off when I pay retail for mundane things. Outlets are in their own way just another manifestation of the experience economy (like warehouse stores, they're trying to give you the "getting a good deal" experience), and you have to be constantly vigilant in any place that's engineered to separate you from your money.

As for the Terri & Ezra outlet...
As we've mentioned, we've been working on a site redesign for a while now, and this page is now in the new design. More coming soon. Terri has been doing most of the work, I must confess. She's been digging up lots of amazing stuff for the site, and she designed the pages. I set up the new news weblog using the wonderful Moveable Type software. Blogger is fine, but Moveable Type is more feature-rich, it runs on my own server, and it automatically creates RSS feeds. I've come to be a big fan of RSS, but I'll save that for a future post.