It has been months since I have added to my blog here. I’ve been spending my blogging time over at The Pragmatic Historian, keeping up with a weekly blogging habit there. While I focus that blog on the uses of history all over society and I can write about a gazillion different topics with that focus, sometimes I run across something that doesn’t quite fit. I have a habit of pointing out odd package labeling…
In the annals of funny packaging that somehow attracts my attention, I’ve got a new observation, this time from a package of cotton balls. Let’s zoom in a bit and look at that “Satisfaction guaranteed” box. “For questions or comments or to report an undesired reaction or side effect, please call ….” Wait, what? What “undesired reaction or side effect” are you expecting cotton balls (that are 100% cotton) to have? Are they going to…
A quick thought … Hubby and I have now watched all 10 episodes of The Umbrella Academy, a Netflix series about a family of siblings who have special powers but are highly dysfunctional due to their wicked-cruel father. The production on the show is outstanding, as is the writing. I know this because after every episode, I kept thinking about the show and the open questions it left in my mind. Even with the final…