Product Placement

Emvelo, Take Me Away!

Posted to Product Placement on 27 August 2009, with no comments so far.

I was just on the adorable looking British website Smallholder (in the UK, a smallholder is someone who lives on and farms a small parcel of land), and came across this banner ad.

What is this magical spray that alleviates stress, and why is it being wasted on animals? I want a spritz.

Sardines, Broccoli, iPhone

Posted to Food on the topic of Product Placement on 6 March 2009, with no comments so far.

Quotidian lunch, extraordinary gadget: still life with broccoli, sardine toasts, New Yorker, and brand new iPhone.

Product Placement: Nancy’s Plain Yogurt

Posted to Product Placement on 21 November 2008, with no comments so far.

Oh, Portopia. Oh, Nancy’s.
Back when I lived in Portland, Oregon, when I would come back home to visit the East coast, I’d rave about Portland all the time. (’In Portland, the farmer’s market is so great…Portland has SUCH good public transportation…this bookstore just PALES in comparison with Powell’s.’) It was sort of annoying, even to [...]

Product Placement

Posted to Anecdote on the topic of Product Placement on the topic of Reviews on 29 October 2008, with 4 comments so far.

My friend Anna, who works in the record industry, told me recently that hard economic times are traditionally thought to be good for record labels, because during recessions when people can’t buy large items, they indulge more in small ones, like records and CDs.
Maybe, then, I will start a regular series about tiny acts of [...]