tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67237608472766402072024-03-14T04:30:18.027-07:00MAN-O-PAUSE BlogMAN-O-PAUSE BLOG: "Media . . . And Making Your Own". A Louisville Area hard copy magazine dedicated to popular culture, the written word, and the creative process.P. KERZEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14651808167331022174noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723760847276640207.post-83043850946607756892015-03-22T18:01:00.003-07:002015-03-22T18:01:53.044-07:00MAKE YOUR EASTER EERIER!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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P. KERZEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14651808167331022174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723760847276640207.post-69288315372021664912015-03-08T18:35:00.001-07:002015-03-09T21:56:16.658-07:00FREE ISSUE 1 PDF (Limited Time)!The winter weather wasn't kind to MAN-O-PAUSE Issue 1. No sooner than I had declared it "done", delay after delay occasioned resulting from the snow, ice, and the sudden temperature falls. We refused to cancel the publication.<br />
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If you look around. Basil and I are sprinkling 55 free copies of the issue in and around Louisville and Southern Indiana. Each is numbered and signed by the two of us.<br />
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For the more computer-oriented reader, and for anyone else who couldn't find a hard copy, here it is, the winter issue. It's timely, with only 12 or so days left in the season. We hope that it entices you to buy the second issue, a special publication which I consider a "labor of love":<br />
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selected to feature on the well-regarded “Pseudopod” horror fiction podcast in
the coming months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watch for it at </span><a href="http://pseudopod.org/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://pseudopod.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br />
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at: </span><a href="mailto:robert.reed.author@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"></span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><a href="mailto:robert.reed.author@gmail.comor">robert.reed.author@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> or on Facebook at </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorRobertAReed?pnref=lhc"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">https://www.facebook.com/AuthorRobertAReed?pnref=lhc</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br />
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</span>P. KERZEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14651808167331022174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723760847276640207.post-61135674723577664932015-02-22T18:00:00.001-08:002015-03-02T21:59:32.452-08:00"NOMEL"-LOOKING FOR THE CREATORS OF "NOMEL" TOOTHPASTE AND MOUTHWASH.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Roughly from November, 1988
to January 1989, I noticed a primitive advertisement being infrequently
broadcast on local television.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The film
stock was grainy, and I remember something about a family forming a conga line
and dancing in or around a large bathroom setting to the product jingle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The product being sold was a
line of (weird-for-the-time) lemon-flavored toothpaste and oral care products
called </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“NOMEL”</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (“Lemon” spelled backward).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From what little I remember from 30 seconds
of fuzzy advertising, </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“NOMEL’S”</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> selling point was that it
was “all natural” (Baby Boomers were just beginning to mainstream health food
products in the late 1980’s), presumably an alternative to the harsh,
chemico-minty brands of toothpaste which dominate the marketplace to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All that I remember about
the jingle was that it was a rip-off or rewriting of Ary Barroso’s classic song
“Brazil” featuring that “Dunt-dunt-dunt/dunt-dunt-de-dunt-dunt” tropical
rhythm. The few lyrics I remember go something like this:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">NO-MEL</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">/Nat-ur-all-y/<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: white;">To
freshen breath and clean your teeth/<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">NOMEL</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> is
what you need . . .”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a college student who was
somewhat required to study advertising, the raw, low-budget quality of the spot
suggested to me that someone with a lot of imagination and little money was out
there daring to directly compete with the mammoth personal care product
companies by formulating, manufacturing, and marketing (of all things) their
own local toothpaste brand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a casual
fan of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kitsch</i>, it was mildly amusing
cheezy fun, like some scratchy old advertisement from the 1960’s. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Moreover, this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“</b></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">NOMEL</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">”</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> thing had a D.I.Y. weirdness to it which appealed to the
Punk Rock fan in me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that time, it
seemed that toothpaste and mouthwash were the exclusive province of large
corporations (Tom’s of Maine, as far as I know, wasn’t yet sold in Louisville).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was “Indie” music and “Indie”
publication, but who had ever heard of an “Indie” toothpaste?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is this peculiar brand of fearless
creative energy which we promote at “MAN-O-PAUSE”, particularly in my own
personal mission to turn passive fangirls and fanboys into active innovators
and artists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That winter of 1989, I
looked through my local drug and grocery stores in a semi-frantic attempt to
try this weird lemon toothpaste, but no one else had so much as heard of
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon thereafter, the advertisements
disappeared from the television.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“</b></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">NOMEL</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">”</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> ever make it to retail shelves?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I wish to interview the
people who created and marketed </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong>“NOMEL</strong></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>”</strong> for
a possible front cover<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“</b></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">NOMEL</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">” </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">issue. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IF YOU WERE INVOLVED WITH THE MAKING AND
MARKETING OF <strong>“</strong></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong>NOME</strong></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong>L”</strong></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"> ORAL CARE PRODUCTS,
AND ARE RECEPTIVE TO AN INTERVIEW EITHER ON OR OFF OF THE RECORD, OR IF YOU
HAVE ANY TUBES, BOTTLES, DISPLAYS, ADVERTISING, OR OTHER </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“NOMEL”</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please include “</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT",serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">NOMEL</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">” in the subject heading of your
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