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If I learned anything from 1960s advertising and Clint Eastwood movies, it’s that smoking cigarettes are cool. However, there is one crucial hurdle preventing me from my race towards coolness and it’s something men in white suits diagnose as lung cancer.
But regardless of your views on cigarettes and the potential, — okay, almost certain — health concerns that come along with it, there’s a certain charm with the candy version of those darn cancer sticks.
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August 21, 2010 in
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It doesn’t matter if you hold a job, dinner placemats are for grownups too!
Japanese designer Shinzi Katoh is one the leaders in Zakka, or “various goods,” a group of products in Japan with a positive outlook.
It could be a wooden clothespin by an obscure company in New Hampshire, it could be an empty tomato-paste can saved for planting basil. Zakka is the art of seeing the savvy in the ordinary and mundane; it’s also the act of paying hard cash for such things as can openers in “skeleton pink” (think iMac translucence), just so one’s friends will know they’re dealing with someone who pays extra for a minor sensory pleasure. – Kaori Shoji for New York Times
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… And that about wraps up my food adventures at this year’s Lollapalooza.
The culinary lineup featured about 30 food and beverage choices… and here are my stories…
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