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Looks can be deceiving

January 24, 2009 – 1:45 pm

Yes, Because We Can
Arriving at Union Station for the Inauguration I noted the first of what was to be a big Pepsi presence: a beautiful but blatant co-option of the Obama campaign.
I mean what has Pepsi (a mediocre tasting brown drink with no nutritional content and is probably bad for you) got to do [...]

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Branding the holidays

November 26, 2008 – 11:27 pm

Shopping on Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont today a store called Dragonfly is selling large rhinestone pins each one spells out a word in all capitol letters – ‘Dream’, ‘Hope’, ‘Imagine’.
Down the street, the window of Beadniks (a store that feels right in this Berkeley of the East) commands us to do something we have [...]

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Black Superman

November 14, 2008 – 2:46 pm

The only popular culture black superhero I can think of was Hancock and he was a screw up. How amusing to laugh (in the tradition of the black minstrels) at this ragtag guy out to fix disastrous situations by making them far worse? I wonder what black superstar Will Smith thought of the role model [...]

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