Ransom Notes Still in Circulation

Updated 7.56pm EST with a link to a new post on “Ransom Notes.”

Retailers face an ominous holiday sign is the headline for a just-posted story in the New York Times about slow sales of women’s clothing so far this holiday season: But the signs with the really chilling message are already up and around New York.

We went to a friend’s party in Brooklyn last night and then onto lower Manhattan (more on that later….) and saw nary a Ransom Notes ad. But I think if we had gone to some more well-traveled places we would have seen them; friends in NYC note that they have definitely seen them. And while the ads seem to have been removed from the New York University Child Study Center’s website as of yesterday, they are now (as of approximately 5.40pm EST) back up and visible online.

Thanks to all (a special thanks to my relatives and many friends) who have signed the petition —– please keep spreading the word and sending out your own messages. Here is one from Club 166, who is himself a physician, and also from Crip Chick’s weblog. A new post from Furious Seasons has more to say about Dr. Harold Koplewicz, director of the NYU Center: Dr. Koplewicz is a “speaker for hire” for a group called Grabow Entertainment, which the company’s bio of him) notes that the doctor is “America’s favorite child psychiatrist according to Parent’s Magazine.” I’ll also note that among Dr. Koplewicz’s publications is a book entitled It’s Nobody’s Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents.