Why a Sack and a Bag are Synonymous
I never get tired of the “Ye Olde Sack and Bag” comedy routine routinely — for some reason — acted out in my life at least every couple of months and I fall prey to the skit every single time.
Plastic Clapton Confusion
On February 16, 2010, Eric Clapton joined Yoko Ono on stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to celebrate her 77th birthday and to make a joyful noise with her Plastic Ono Band.
I love this image from the performance. Clapton is clearly shocked/awed/amazed/bemused by Yoko’s classic screaming-as-singing while her son, Sean, is obviously used to her raggedy voice and just plays along.
Can Plastic Logic Free Us from Amazon Imprisonment?
I used to be a big fan of the Kindle — until the betraying release of the Kindle DX by Amazon a couple of months after my purchase of the Kindle 2.
What great news it was to read this week that Plastic Logic teamed up with Barnes and Noble and at&t to bring their eReader to life.
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Grinning Pepsi Logos and the Wrinkled Penis Bottle
We believe in branding. Your logo, your namespace, and your textual perception is everything online, and it is the only thing that matters when you are a popular company propagating your brand. We were horrified to learn Pepsi recently changed their semiotic logo and bottle in favor of a strange, smiling, grinning, yawning set of variations on the Obama-like red-white-and-blue theme. Here is the old, favorite Pepsi Logo we all know and love:
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That’s More Plastic Junk
by Evan Stair
This is not a story about toys, but it starts out that way. It was some twenty-five to thirty years ago and my brothers and I were very excited when the Sears, Wards, and JC Penny Christmas catalogs had arrived. We passed right by the curtains/ bras/ coats/ and hardware sections to reach our favorite part of the catalog: The toys!
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