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Remember when breakfast used to be an adventure? As far as I’m concerned no company ever did more with cardboard than Kelloggs, Post, and whatever other cereal conglomerates there are out there. The makers of Cocoa Pebbles should be enshrined somewhere with Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates. While we’re at it go ahead and put my man Cap’n Crunch on some flippin’ currency.
You know what I’m talking about. Few things take us back to childhood like a colorful box of sugary puffed things.
No wonder we had so much energy as kids. Most of those cereals were like crack. People call pot a gateway drug, but we were addicts long before we ever hopped on a school bus. The first time someone served me Cookie Crisp they might as well have handed me a crack pipe and poured milk over it. I spent the rest of my childhood free-basing Froot Loops sugar on my Corn Pops.
Am I still a junkie for colorful puffs of corn? Send me 3 UPCs along with $2.99 for shipping and I’ll tell you. Continue reading
Life. Culture. Education.
Life as Pop Culture Professor Clay Morgan
In The Matrix, Morpheus tells Neo he can take the blue pill and go on believing whatever he wants to believe. Or he can take the red pill to stay in Wonderland and find out how deep the rabbit hole goes.
This is a red pill type site that provides information in an entertaining way. It’s about clear thinking and good writing. It’s about finding meaning amidst the absurd. It’s about humor and truth.
I’m a writer / speaker who teaches history and political courses at a couple of local colleges. Where is local, you say? Well, that would be Wonderland of course.
On topics ranging from pop culture to the meaning of life, my brain’s always poppin’. Take the red pill and unplug.
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