February 2009 Archives

Drivers heading up 51st Street in Oakland are currently being greeted with an incongruous sight at the intersection with Broadway...

OK, so you've been buying organic produce, making your bed with organic cotton sheets, using organic shampoos, and gardening with organic fertilizer...

When I spotted this sign on Clay Street in San Francisco's Chinatown last year, the market was already tanking.

I spotted this product at Costco a while back. For those of us who find even pouring powered pancake mix out of a box into a bowl and mixing it with water too challenging...

When is the last time you thought, "Gee, I really could use some s'mores right now — and my kitchen is too big and empty and needs more stuff in it"?

If you're a homeowner, try to go back in your head and recreate the feelings and emotions you had as you faced the biggest purchase of your life... but take your blood pressure medication first.

My daughter loves Thomas the Tank Engine. But apparently if you're a girl, he doesn't love you back...

I often pick up take-out sushi at the Japanese grocery store not far from my work. One day I walked in and did a double-take when I saw this on the display shelves...

Dude, this just somehow epitomizes the 1960s for me...

OK. We've seen these friendly little bottles of pomegranate juice around our grocery store for years now. We know that research has shown that pomegranate juice offers all kinds of health benefits...

It all seems so simple. You're designing a logo for your company's product, something that gets wrapped around buildings during construction, and you want people to know who made the product.

Yeah yeah yeah, maybe mocking Ikea product names is passe, but when faced with a beauty like the one pictured below, I couldn't resist.