I decided I couldn't post anything tonight about the state of things, so I went to look for something funny or sweet I had favorited recenty on BlueSky that I could share.
And damn if there isn't really anything. It's all bad news.
This is the closest thing I could find, which was posted six days ago by @amybrown.xyz:
that's right folks, Ohio also has the former HQ of the Longaberger company. it's a seven story basket and it's empty because the company went bankrupt and nobody can figure out what to do with the building
I remember Longaberger baskets — kind of a Beanie Baby craze among older women 20 or 30 years ago.
The building is obviously an extreme example of what architect Robert Venturi would call a duck — but usually ducks are smallish businesses or road-side attractions. Not seven-story corporate headquarters that can never be repurposed.
Oops.
As Zippy would say, Yow! I seem to remember that my wife was roped into a Longaberger “party” (à la Tupperware), but she says it was a Southern Living party. With kids in school, it was sometimes hard to get out of things.
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