STEVE SZKOTAK : "The code is called the "Vigenere cipher," a centuries-old encryption in which letters of the alphabet are shifted a set number of places so an "a" would become a "d" — essentially, creating words with different letter combinations."
A 147 year old message definitely arrived to late!
12/27/10
TEENA MARIE I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
Just picking up news and learned that one of my fav's Teena Marie has passed into the next life today at 54 at her home in Pasadena...
12/19/10
MARK TWAIN Quote
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain
12/14/10
BRANDING CHRISTINE TRZYNA MAGAZINES I READ IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE
For someone who once read everything in sight including cereal boxes, this is a very limited list...
EVERY WEEK
LA Weekly (A ritual)
EVERY MONTH
Vanity Fair
LA Yoga
National Geographic
Vogue
Rolling Stone
SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR
Esquire
Smithsonian
Mother Jones
Ebony
Newsweek
New Yorker
Hola
RARELY
Oprah
People
EVERY WEEK
LA Weekly (A ritual)
EVERY MONTH
Vanity Fair
LA Yoga
National Geographic
Vogue
Rolling Stone
SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR
Esquire
Smithsonian
Mother Jones
Ebony
Newsweek
New Yorker
Hola
RARELY
Oprah
People
12/10/10
BRANDING CHRISTINE TRZYNA : READING STOPTISM by LEE EISENBERG MADE ME THINK
Favorite Cheap Shampoo : V05 has it over Suave any day!
(Whatever happened to BRECK ?)
Favorite Expensive Shampoo : Pantene of course (got any samples?)
Toothpaste : Crest - flavored - Citrus, Cinnamon, anything but minty!
Favorite Cheap Soap: Tone or anything with Cocoa Butter
Favorite Expensive Soap: Oh the expensive soaps I was once gifted and could never find or afford again! (Paris) I prefer scented soaps to perfume.
Favorite Perfume: A personal mix I have made every few years in Malibu. Through time I have sometimes worn men's cologne as I prefer non-floral scents.
(Whatever happened to BRECK ?)
Favorite Expensive Shampoo : Pantene of course (got any samples?)
Toothpaste : Crest - flavored - Citrus, Cinnamon, anything but minty!
Favorite Cheap Soap: Tone or anything with Cocoa Butter
Favorite Expensive Soap: Oh the expensive soaps I was once gifted and could never find or afford again! (Paris) I prefer scented soaps to perfume.
Favorite Perfume: A personal mix I have made every few years in Malibu. Through time I have sometimes worn men's cologne as I prefer non-floral scents.
12/7/10
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE and the ARMONICA
So the other day I was in a public library in another city when I noticed a table of Christmas CD's and one of them featured songs performed on the ARMONICA... Turns out that my favorite Benjamin Franklin invented this instrument... Marie Antoinette was one of those who learned to play it. There were once 5000 in existance and now? ! maybe two or three players in the whole world... Linking to the site that explains it all...
William Zeitler is dedicated to bringing this instrument back from the endangered musical instruments list... The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies was originally written for the ARMONICA!
William Zeitler is dedicated to bringing this instrument back from the endangered musical instruments list... The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies was originally written for the ARMONICA!
12/6/10
THE CAMPBELLS SOUP CANS WERE SUBVERSIVE
I think the CAMPBELLS soup cans were subversive because Andy grew up in the town where the HEINZ was made; soup, ketchup... By giving CAMPBELLS free advertising through pop art, Andy Warhol was promoting Campbells, or declaring war on Heinz... and all those factory jobs in Pittsburgh where you could smell the soup cooking in the air.
What's your favorite flavor Campbells? Mine is a tie between Bean with Bacon and Scotch Broth (rare to find on the shelves these days.)
Christine Trzyna
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What's your favorite flavor Campbells? Mine is a tie between Bean with Bacon and Scotch Broth (rare to find on the shelves these days.)
Christine Trzyna
Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights
12/5/10
BRANDING CHRISTINE TRZYNA or WHILE WRITING I EAT CRACKERS AND CHEESE
Favorite Grocery Store of ALL TIME (Particularily during the Ralphs/Vons strike) : TRADER JOES (Does civilization exist where Trader Joe's arn't?)
Favorite Nail Salon/Polish : OPI (All things OPI are wonderful. Do exotic vacations take place where no one is wearing OPI?)
Favorite Chewing Gum to chomp while on the Internet: ORBIT Maui Melon Mint (The trendy pop art packaging lured me to try it.)
Favorite Crackers to read books eating : KEEBLER Townhouse Flipsides Pretzel Crackers
along with
Favorite Cheese to read books eating : SARGENTO Reduced Fat Swiss Cheese.
Favorite Nail Salon/Polish : OPI (All things OPI are wonderful. Do exotic vacations take place where no one is wearing OPI?)
Favorite Chewing Gum to chomp while on the Internet: ORBIT Maui Melon Mint (The trendy pop art packaging lured me to try it.)
Favorite Crackers to read books eating : KEEBLER Townhouse Flipsides Pretzel Crackers
along with
Favorite Cheese to read books eating : SARGENTO Reduced Fat Swiss Cheese.
(Hint: Stuffing a holiday stocking for me should be simple with these clues.)
12/4/10
12/2/10
BRANDING CHRISTINE TRZYNA or I THINK OF ANDY WARHOL
I've been thinking a lot about BRANDING. (And that Andy Warhol was a futurist in his understanding of this concept.)
Branding is a marketing term for moving a product (a person/writer is a product) into a category that is evocative of the essence of that person/writer, sometimes through associated product.
State that again?
It is assumed that what I buy says a lot about me - my personality, character, values, class.
I think maybe what I DON'T BUY SAYS MORE!
I'm in love with cutting edge advertising as pop culture. I love paging through a VANITY FAIR or a VOGUE and looking at the ads - what models are being used - what is the "story" each pictorial promotes. (High fashion ads are sometimes creepy. I hated the lurking molester/rapist of young sexy girls jeans pictorial a few years back.) But I can't say that I have bought anything I've ever seen advertised in either magazine.
Anyway, I'm going to have fun with this idea of me being a BRAND, as associated with PRODUCT, during the most materialistic time of the year in this "Christian" country; the Christmas season. I'm going to pitch products I like, just like I used to play at being a TV commercial actress and promoting a box of cereal when I was a kid.
C Christine Trzyna/ Writerly Life 2010 All Rights Reserved Including Internet and International Rights
C 2016 Christine Trzyna Blogspot
Branding is a marketing term for moving a product (a person/writer is a product) into a category that is evocative of the essence of that person/writer, sometimes through associated product.
State that again?
It is assumed that what I buy says a lot about me - my personality, character, values, class.
I think maybe what I DON'T BUY SAYS MORE!
I'm in love with cutting edge advertising as pop culture. I love paging through a VANITY FAIR or a VOGUE and looking at the ads - what models are being used - what is the "story" each pictorial promotes. (High fashion ads are sometimes creepy. I hated the lurking molester/rapist of young sexy girls jeans pictorial a few years back.) But I can't say that I have bought anything I've ever seen advertised in either magazine.
Anyway, I'm going to have fun with this idea of me being a BRAND, as associated with PRODUCT, during the most materialistic time of the year in this "Christian" country; the Christmas season. I'm going to pitch products I like, just like I used to play at being a TV commercial actress and promoting a box of cereal when I was a kid.
C Christine Trzyna/ Writerly Life 2010 All Rights Reserved Including Internet and International Rights
C 2016 Christine Trzyna Blogspot
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