Juice brand Tropicana wanted to highlight the fact that it played an important role in the morning ritual of millions of Canadians.
In order to do this, Tropicana spent a month in Inuvik. The 3,500 residents of the Arctic town in the Northwest Territories live without a sunrise for several weeks every winter. Tropicana literally brought a brighter morning to Inuvik with a giant artificial sun that emitted 100,000 lumens of light.
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The first date, you’re sort of the stand-in for whomever he loved last, before he fully realizes that you’re not her, and so you get all this nice residue emotion.”
— Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
I love Slaughterhouse 90210.
“Everybody in a small town is engaged or married or in trouble. There’s nothing else to do in a small town.”
—Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“So now he used loud angry rock music as a replacement for real feelings, rather than as an expression of them, and he didn’t even mind very much. What good were real feelings anyway?”
— Nick Hornby, About a Boy
Adorable.
Brooklyn, I miss you.
I think we should all call them comic booklets from now on. Or funny pages.
but Shakira is the definition of trying too hard.
Covered: Nic Cowan covers Tank Girl: The Collection
Original cover by Jamie Hewlett; Dark Horse 1993. Nic Cowan’s website is here.

I was in a bar in Baltimore and I asked a guy what he did for a living. He said, ‘Can I be frank? I trade deer meat for crack.’ — Film director John Waters (via blogspotter)