caterpillar

capitalist fortune cookie

campbell's beef barley

Campbell's "Hearty Beef Barley," exp. Nov. 06, 2013

Campbell's "Vegetable Beef with Barley," exp. Oct. 31, 2013

"Hearty Beef Barley" detail

"Vegetable Beef with Barley" detail

(Note difference in "Labels for Education" points!)

"Hearty Beef Barley" (left) is official soup of the NFL while "Vegetable Beef with Barley" involves "Select Harvest" "real ingredients"

on feta

Note to major grocery store chains: "Feta" is not another word for "styrofoam." Look it up.

Note to consumers: There is no such thing as "Fat free feta." Anything with that label is lying to you and is most likely (not so) cleverly disguised styrofoam.

safety

"8. Do NOT attempt to deep fat fry in your oven."

~ microwave instruction manual

eating

Eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

~ Don Delillo (1985) White Noise

the modern city

A modern city is an almost incredibly helpless and delicate organism. It has lost its power to produce the actual essentials of life. In spite of its transportation systems, it cannot move as they found out in the evacuation of London. It is like an overgrown idiot baby in an incubator. It is completely helpless without the aid of the many servants that succor it. It cannot even think except in a slow ponderous collective fashion and it cannot think at all in an emergency. Its individuals can think, but a city is an organism in itself and must have a directing brain and nervous system. Destroy its waterworks, it dies. Stop its food supply. It dies. Remove its directing intelligence, it commits suicide.

~ Robert A. Heinlein (1939) For Us, The Living

'noc's

Pinocchio's pizza and subs, Harvard Square (try the cheese steak) ~ at least some things never change.