Category Archives: Nostalgia

November 3, 2009

Happier Days!

Faking the past can be as good as the real thing My family was on vacation in Maine, and we were hungry. It was late and few joints were open, but we found an Applebee’s. Not the best choice for vegetarians. I took in the décor as I deftly dodged the bacon bits in my salad. [...]
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October 19, 2009

Positively Reminiscent

Nostalgia marketing can be a cure in dark times < My great-great grandma (on far right camel) in Egypt, circa 1900 I get a kick out of old family photos. When visiting kin, it is normal for me to take photographs off the walls and extract them from albums so I can take my own digital copies. [...]
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October 14, 2009

Tuning into Yesteryear

Marketing Nostalgia and Music Hours before boarding a plane for Bamako in 1989, I purchased the B-52s’ then-newest album, Cosmic Thing. I listened to it all the way to Mali, and I listened to for the next two years as I worked in the sub-Sahel of West Africa. Meanwhile, the B-52s supplied the fitting soundtrack with [...]
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