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#a425 :: Gilette Shaving Cream cap

April 17, 2009

The fetish of packaging, the gloss of the new. Plastic lids for shaving cream come in two sizes – the simple quarter-sized button protector found on Barbasol or this full-bloat blowmolded cylindrical monster, which covered the can of Gilette I bought last week.
With the earth’s carbon load trending toward the toxic, I worry about the [...]

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#a423 :: Marah Macrocarpeae

April 15, 2009

Or at least that’s what this blog points to.
Wild cucumber tastes and looks nothing like its namesake. It is a 4-inch-long, egg-shaped handful of misery, with cactusy spines that puncture your skin if you grip it too tightly.
A taste of the juice inside (for they prove to be very juicy when dissected [...]

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