Dear New Years TV marathon viewers, If you wondering when your local cafe, supermarket, and shopping mall would stop playing “Santa Baby,” rest assured: Christmas is almost here! Though my own family is Jewish, the holiday still holds so many sweet memories for me: the evening I gathered all the ornaments given to my mother [...]
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The Kitsch of Christmas Past
Posted in advertising, domesticity, holidays, television, video on December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Wonders of Coffee
Posted in advertising, commerce, commercialism, domesticity, economics, food, leisure, shopping, video, visual culture on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To students seldom awake before ten, Like many scholars, I’ve relied on coffee as a lifeline for most of my academic career. By senior year of high school, I was already bringing a plastic mug full of instant Maxwell House (terrible, I know) to class. In college, I even considered footnoting the local convenience store [...]
Board Games of Life
Posted in advertising, domesticity, fun, periodicals, tagged board games, children, cities, Life magazine, race, toys on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear La-Z-Boy loungers, I don’t know about you, but I vastly preferred board games as a child over the more dangerous (and potentially embarrassing) pursuits of the athletics field. Still I can’t help but think all of those hours spent on the living room rug must have prepared me in some way for adulthood. “Monopoly” [...]
Home improvement (not the sitcom, I swear)
Posted in domesticity, tagged Cold War, domesticity, furniture, Prelinger Archive, sleeping, video on October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dear compatriots in soporific studies, One drawback to working from home is that the couch always looks far more attractive than the computer screen. I find myself contemplating this dilemma today on the arrival of our long-awaited sofa, named by its manufacturers “Rachel,” not to mention our new platform bed, named “Elan.” That’s right, Rachel [...]
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