Logo I'm creating - critique?  

Agreed.
The roof is better when it relates to the weight of the font.
Nice work ! And thanks for making it a participatory sport,

I
like the bird.

Thanks
to you, SDR, and everyone else who made helpful comments. It was fun to get and incorporate feedback, and I think the logo improved because of it.

Dark Dark-brown better than black?
Immediately after you changed from all orange to orange black (that was great), I thought that turning that black into a more subtle dark-dark-dark-brown would be better. More in the same palette. Provably as dark as you wish, but never arrive at black.

agreed with gustavo. i don't...
agreed with gustavo. i don't like the bird. overdone and trendy. not to mention copyrighted!

The bird thing was a joke
I'm pretty sure woody, DudeDah, etc. were referring to this. Pretty funny.
I'll try the dark dark brown. I agree that stark white and jet black are usually not the way to go. Not sure why I did it that way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XM3vWJmpfo

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woodywood likes this.

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"Always Slightly Off" -- now there's a motto.
Brown instead of black. Maybe ? Try it.

Leave it alone you have ...
Leave it alone you have a winner !!!! end of story.

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timyoung brings out all the big guns ! What can we say ?
Look at it in monochrome -- for the back page newpaper ad. Gray scale tells the tale . . .

you gonna post the finished...
you gonna post the finished product or what?

I kinda liked the bird
but agree that the version prior to that is the winner.
And even after spending a couple of years getting educated in the ways of renewable energy and the effects of climate change science I still can't fathom why the popular press insists that a residential fireplace is contributing to environmental damage. The facts just do not add up. What? Do they think that increased reliance on fossil fuels is better?
Wood is a renewable resource, it releases no more CO2 by burning than it would by rotting, basic conservation of mass principle there. It's just so peculiar that this has become a hot-button issue....and the same goody-two-shoes that decry a fireplace also won't allow a clothesline in their HOA-controlled neighborhoods. It's ridiculous.
OK, sorry for the derailement...back to your regularly scheduled logo-design critique...

I agree,
Olive. San Francisco is a pretty mellow place, but still there are the "me-firsters' on the streets and sidewalks -- whether driving, biking, or walking. It's the cell-phone-in-your-face, I'm walking in front of your car BECAUSE IT'S MY RIGHT and I-can't-hear-you-anyway-because-I'm-listening-to-my-music types, that I suspect infest the whole planet at this point (?), who want it all but Not In My Back Yard, thank you. CHIMNEY SMOKE IS CARCINOGENIC, even way up in the sky -- or something . . .
Rant over.

So bring the smoke back?
Just kidding.

The iProd
I am in the final stages of patenting a design for the iProd. A sleek and chic small portable device that delivers a variable voltage electric shock via a retractable antenna. For use in public places such as subway tunnels, sidewalks to clear the path of individuals entranced by their mobile devices, in particular users of iPhone and iPod. Trials have shown that the shock delivered is sufficient to cause the offending individual to drop the device thereby ensuring that they cease to be a nuisance in the future.