Motivational Quote of the Week
“I haven’t seen it, I don’t want to see it, you can’t make me see it.” - Lord Hambersham, DDS
Cereal of the Week
Pink Panther the cartoon television show ran from 1969 - 1980. Pink Panther the cereal was in production from 1973 - 1980, finding no market popularity after the end of the show. Even though the Pink Panther would go on to become an advertising icon (Owens Corning logging over 40 years with the MGM-owned critter), the cereal would never be seen again. While it wasn’t rare for a TV-tie-in cereal to be discontinued once the show it was based on ended, it is rare for the character it’s based on to continue to exist in pop culture without a cereal. Everyone knows who the Pink Panther is, a giant diamond the Phantom wants to steal, before Peter Sellers gets to him, accidentally.
Pink Panther the cereal contained no jewels. Instead it contained corn flakes doused in a pink coating. This pink coating immediately turned the milk pink as it dissolved off the flakes. In effect, it was corn flakes in strawberry milk. Even though there was no strawberry, it’s just our mind playing tricks on us, like thinking Skittles taste different based on color. Regardless, if you liked corn flakes and you were a kid who watched Pink Panther, you liked this cereal because it added sugar to the mix. If you liked neither, then you never begged your mom to buy it. Post didn’t have to go hard with advertising, as it was on TV, but the 1980s did introduce a slew of cartoon related cereals, which would have likely knocked Pink Panther off the shelves eventually.
News From Earth
I honestly have not checked Twitter for weeks now. I was sick with seasonal tree jizz related illness, then had a terrible sunburn. Hence no newsletter for the past two weeks. I have no idea what is going on in the world and it’s kind of refreshing.
Well, not completely. I do know that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is continuing to try to lay his fascism-for-the-nation groundwork here in Florida, and we’re letting him. I know New College has an enrollment of about around 600 students and we’re letting that low number influence our outrage. I know that when DeSantis runs for President he’ll take all the hateful and spiteful things he’s done in Florida and apply them to a national agenda. We thought Trump was bad, no, Trump’s incompetence saved us the trouble of really having to fight for democracy. DeSantis could be the first step to really flirting with fascism.
And yeah, this could be written off as fear-mongering. The truth is, this country is too big and the GOP is overall too antiquated to really pull off a fascist regime. They ban books or educational courses as if there is no internet. They want to keep the populace dumb so they can maintain power, and it mostly works because people prefer ignorance over education, but the knowledge is out there. Gen Z is not taking this shit, and will be fighting the fight the rest of us should be fighting. The GOP wants a white world with no challenges to their superiority. That’s really hard to do when we have the fucking internet. Morons.
Sandwich of the Week
From the proprietary sandwich generation tool:
Chorizo & Fougerus With Sauerkraut On Doughnut Bread.
Ephemeral Erosion
Two weeks is not a long time, but it also is no time at all. Time is just how we perceive our lives, and the moments within. It’s much more comforting to believe that time is all the time. That everything in our lives is happening at the same moment, but we can only perceive singular moments, rather than all moments all at once. We also can’t pick a point to occupy, forced into a linear experience of all this time. There’s also the thought that all previous time, committed to a brain that handles memory like a jar of jelly beans on a commuter train, only exists as memory. That like the future, the past is yet to exist because right now, we only occupy this moment.
It’s all relative. Probably. It’s been two weeks since the last edition of this newsletter but has it? Has two weeks passed already or did I write this in the past? Well, you’re reading it in the future, which is now the present so yes, I wrote it in the past. Unless I wrote it right now, as you are reading it, but you can only perceive the moment you are in, and certainly not the moment I was in, only moments ago. There is a song that goes “time keeps on slipping into the future” but I think that time just never started slipping, and it’s us who are slipping. If we can get a handle on time, we can stop worrying about it.
Pink Panther Flakes & The Low-Key Fascism of Florida
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