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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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.

(Hint: Stuffing a holiday stocking for me should be simple with these clues.)

ANDY WARHOL TRIBUTE

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.



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LEO KOTTKE RINGS

Woke up in the middle of the night thinking of this song... which I haven't heard in years.

ONE RED PAPERCLIP - HE TRADED A PAPER CLIP FOR A HOUSE : KYLE MACDONALD

Great news in depressing economic times. KYLE MACDONALD link is here! He started with a red paperclip - following his story here!

ANOTHER STUPID THING (MOSTLY MALE) PEOPLE SAY TO WOMEN WRITERS

... Another stupid thing that people - mostly male people - have said to me as a (woman)writer is that I should have sex with them, and "really live," and THEN I WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO WRITE ABOUT!

Ego driven people like this get more pathetic sounding by the minute.

Why would I have to have sex at all to have something to write about?

I'm not a sex writer!
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ONE OF THE STUPIDEST THINGS PEOPLE SAY TO WRITERS ....

One of the stupidest things people say to writers, when we share (and since we are expressers, we share) instead of the horridly patronizing "Thank You For Sharing," is "You should write a book."
Our every harsh experience is dismissed or deemed worth experience for the "learning value." We are often told by people that these experiences are worth it because they give us SOMETHING TO WRITE ABOUT. As if we don't already experience life as worth writing about without the angst. As if only harsh experiences are somehow illuminating or invigorating or inspiring! AS IF OBSERVATION, RESEARCH, or pure IMAGINATION are not enough!


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THOSE LITTLE LIBRARY PENCILS ARE A WASTE OF MONEY!

As you may know, I blog a bit about LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY. Recently a librarian expressed to me the waste of money that those little (about 3 1/2 inch presharpened) pencils are. NOBODY WANTS TO SHARPEN THEM! And I do, but they are good for about ONE SHARPEN before they become near impossible to put into the electric sharpener. And at that length they dig into a person's hand. They are uncomfortable to use as well.

WHY NOT JUST BUY FULL LENGTH PENCILS THAT HAVE MORE SHARPENING LIFE IN THEM? I see these sold for as low as $1.00 a six pack!

OLD SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOKS WERE A SECRET METHOD FOR

passing notes back and forth in the 8th grade. Usually these notes were simply silly but sometimes a boy and a girl would pass love notes this way. The note was put into the pocket pasted inside and all the teacher thought was going on was the return to of a library book to the person who it temporarily belonged. Passing notes in library books was especially done in English class. I suppose this was because our teacher went wild on a daily basis and sometimes didn't show up at all. The boys in my class drove her wild with various goof ball antics that proved they/we were not paying attention. I think we made our way through about 3 chapters of the book the entire year. I didn't like English classes.

It was READING that made me want to be a writer myself.

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NEXT MAGAZINE REDUX : NIGHTMARE ON C STREET by CHRISTINE TRZYNA

This was a feature article in the November 1994 Next Magazine, by me, Christine Trzyna.

NIGHTMARE ON C STREET

Last night Pan was trying to seduce me into the Poetry Cult. Maybe it wasn't the old cloven footed trickster himself, but a naked surfer waving the latest copy of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, from Dutton's. These definitive reference books for the 90's wordsmith keep flying off Dutton's dusty NoHo shelves like B-52's with UFOs on their tails. Maybe Pan, knowing I'm a poet, didn't think his stupendous butt or the long slender fingers of a slide-to-hell guitarist were enough!

He was dripping with seaweed. One piece of it hung seductively over his right nipple. He was carrying a surfboard with a screaming lime NEXT...logo airbrushed on it. Gosh! He looked like Killer Dana's Gary Wright...or maybe it was GMT himself!

His voice was full of maple syrup. "Hey you sweet young Pancake, you," he said. Definitely not Gary or GMT. "Wouldn't you like to enter into the dark den of the gypsies, tramps, and thieves?" he said.

He went on to mention the allure of the Anti-Menites, the Idealogues, and the Revolutionaries, like Psycho Boy did last month, but they all sound so like Jungian archetypes. This was my dream and I wanted crazy Sigmund and his coke addiction.

"Get involved in the poetry scene and before you know it, you'll get all the tarot and rune readings you ever wanted. Married women will turn gay and try to seduce you while their husbands are out paying off the charge cards. Pretty soon, even you will be working for cash under the table," Pan said.

"Wait a moment, Pan. This sounds a lot like a Music Business seduction to me. Did we meet at Lollapalooza? I asked.

"Nah. Too muddy," he replied. "Listen, Christine, follow me and you'll be important. You'll have friends all over the place. You'll drive...drive..drive to readings., No matter what, people will clap for you. I'll see what I can do to rig the slams. By the 30th of the month you'll be frantically searching for NEXT... so you can intelligently plan your month. And you'll start drinking coffee, even though it does taste like crap and puts cellulite on your thighs," he added, glaring at my skinny rump in a way that made me tremble.

"NO! NO! I heard myself moan. But I had sleep paralysis and my efforts to flee were canned. Somewhere in the background, like all good feminists, I heard Mick Jagger singing, "Under My Thumb."

"All I ever wanted was financial security!" I yelled. He vanished into thin air, but I heard his laugh all the way down the beach.

If you're reading this propaganda, you may already me a member of the poetry CULT. And Darling, there is no escape.

C 1994, 2008 Christine Trzyna

Commentary: When I read this silly article years later, I was impressed with my own sense of nonsensical fun and realized it had been a long time since I had written so freely. This was a first write so there wasn't time for both the editor in my head and the press deadline. Of course I see myself trying to tickle (with a jab) certain members of the poetry scene back then.

Duttons closed about a 2 years ago. It was a North Hollywood tradition. Hello to Dave Dutton! (The place is now a yoga studio!)

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GARRISON KEILLOR doesn't think PUBLISHING WILL LAST

As reported by TIME magazine, June 7, 2010 and as originally reported in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"I think that book publishing is about to slide into the sea. We live in a literate time, and our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numerals (U R 2 Wonderful)... the future of publishing: 18 million authors in America, each with an average of 14 readers, eight of whom are blood relatives. Average annual earnings: $1.75" - Garrison Keillor

EPIC MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE JOURNEY

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE found in Ireland...

Here's the Yahoo Buzz on it.

Have you ever thrown wine bottle with a message into the sea?

What was your message?