We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.
Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have … - Aaron Belz
Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have …
- Aaron Belz
Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a s… - Aaron Belz
Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a s…
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that? - Aaron Belz
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas. - Aaron Belz
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I wri… - Aaron Belz
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I wri…
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for… - Aaron Belz
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for…
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures. - Aaron Belz
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter. - Aaron Belz
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always … - Aaron Belz
The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always …
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