meeyauw's pad (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Pleurotus ostreatus While we were out photographing covered bridges, John found quite a big bunch of oyster mushrooms. He harvested them and cooked them up that night and I tasted them for the first time. Supposedly, Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup is made with oyster mushrooms. They tasted the same and looked the same as the tiny bits of mushroom in the Campbell's cans. I e-mailed Campbell's Soup...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Eagles (-3) over BEARS National spotlight. Back in his hometown. What more could Donovan McNabb ask for? Maybe another run for him and his mom with a Campbell's Soup commercial? Or, a stinkin' win. At 5-4, the Birds could really use a W. It's not panic time because the NFC East
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Captivated by Kiwiana By Claire McCall Author/artist Richard Wolfe's Freeman's Bay home is a shrine to Kiwiana packaging and furniture from days gone by. Photo / Babiche Martens Amid the pleasantries of meeting and greeting, it's not uncommon for the collection of old tins, jars and packets, displayed in cabinets in the entrance hall of Richard Wolfe's Freeman's Bay villa, to go unnoticed. Attention...
scribbit (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I should probably title this "Eat Your Veggies" because that's the theme here today as Veggie Tales has released their latest DVD, "Saint Nicholas: A Season of Joyful Giving" and I've got copies to give away. You know I can sing "Barbara Manatee" in my sleep don't you? My kids are past the Veggie Tales age but still that tune haunts me . . . It's kind of funny that I'd...
The Offside Rules (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Apparently feeling nostalgic for the year 2004 and all those Campbell's soup ads, the Beeb got all Tweet-stalker and tracked down The Biggest Midget in the Game™. It's servicable piece but that's probably all you can get when your "interview" is conducted via fax. Still, it's worth a read if only to remind you that Freddy is A) still talented and that B) his lack of playing time may...
Tracey's Culinary Adventures (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
In years past I've never been one to get excited about eating soup as the weather got cooler. As a kid I ate my fair share of Campbell's soup, but as I got older soup just didn't appeal to me. I don't drink hot beverages (coffee, tea, etc.) and I always wondered if my aversion to hot beverages played a role in my lack of interest in soup. Turns out, that probably isn't the case as I seem to have discovered...
Exoskeleton (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I just re-read John Barth's "The Literature of Exhaustion," and found this peculiar passage about Borges, "Day" by Kent Johnson and Kenny Goldsmith, and, most interestingly from my perspective, translation (the article was originally published in Atlantic in 1967): "... Now, this is an interesting idea, of considerable intellectual validity. I mentioned earlier that if Beethoven's...
Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The Crustmaster uses pies to lure Michelle Obama to the dark side. The original recipe for Worcestershire sauce is discovered (we assume it's the British equivalent of the original top-secret formula for Coca-Cola, but without cocaine). And the most practical...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Does the Pop Art movement of the 1960s represent a battle between the Unserious and the Overserious? It can look that way. Nothing is more shockingly dissimilar to a silkscreen of a Campbell's soup can by Warhol from the 1960s than a giant work of monochromatic abstraction by Robert Motherwell from the 1950s. Abstract Expressionism seems to have almost no common ground with Pop. One seems to smile...
chromat process (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
hey friends! im copying and pasting a speech i made at work yesterday for toastmasters (my boss told me i speak too 'off the cuff' and need to sign up for this). its great because in speeches, you don't have to reference or cite anything like you normally would in a research paper or academic essay! so here it is, straight from my mouth to your eyes! THE COMMODITIZATION OF CELEBRITY: WARHOL TO GAGA...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
SAN JOSE, Calif. & NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LiveWorld, Inc. (Pink Sheets:LVWD), a leading online social media agency, today announced it is hosting a free webinar on November 10, 2009 focused on how brands can successfully evolve their corporate web strategies at a time when new social media tools have enabled customer conversations to take place all over the web. WHAT: Featuring...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
BARCELONA.- “People Call it Noise - But he Calls it Music”; that was how the Chicago Daily News described the work of a young composer, John Cage (1912-1992) in a review published on 19 March 1942. That “noise”, “played” on wood blocks, water containers, tin cans, iron tubes, whistles and other percussion objects, soon gave way to “silence”, culminating in the...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In an industry that is short on longevity and long on turnover, Bodine Marketing Group stands as a rare exception. With the addition of James D. Bodine (JD) as Principal, the agency joins an elite group of fourth-generation marketing firms. Bodine Marketing Group started in 1931 as Elmer P. Cook Associates serving the likes of Hires Root Beer and Campbell’s...
Stoning the Devil (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Another creep show, worse than Jesus Camp : No End in Sight , a recent documentary about the Iraq war. Conservative estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths: 600,000. That’s ten times the number of American soldiers killed in Vietnam. For abundance of ironies, the American political system puts Jonathan Swift to shame: Nixon is impeached and forced to resign for snooping on Democrats; Clinton is impeached...
Crew Design (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
In 1962, Andy Warhol raised the humble Campbell's soup can to an iconic level. But if you walk into a grocery store this afternoon, you will no longer see the same label. It's true: for better or worse, Campbell's is among the many food brands trying to breathe new life into their old design. But unlike the Tropicana fiasco, I am not so much bothered by this new look. I appreciate the company's allegiance...
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