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A delirious walk through Nutter Butter land

  Marketing is quite a silly thing at times, sometimes you view something and feel that it is a grasping at straws sort of attempt at garnering attention towards some unremarkable product or brand. Other times you might be amused at the lengths some of these companies will go, may it be shock, awe, or aggravating, something was able to stick and captivate enough to set up a cozy camp in your mind. I suppose that the piece of marketing that I will be discussing today lies somewhere in between and yet firmly on either side of this spectrum, at least when I see it. The once humble Nutter Butter, and its current marketing strategy will be spotlighted in this post today. Unhinged, surreal, and a little scary are a couple of adjectives that come to mind when viewing the social media of Nutter Butter currently. The brands pages sport many videos of colorful hodge podges centering Nutter Butter amidst disembodied voices, flashing colors, and off putting and nonsensical atmospheres. https:...

My intro post

 Hi, I'm Bon      When thinking about what to share about myself, I'm reminded of various lines from Charles Bukowski, the gravely voice of Tom Waits, and his eccentricity. I think of my mothers own quirks, the various gifts and anxietys shes given me. How when my father was once asked if he was wearing women's clothes, he said "No, they're my wife's!". I feel stitched together by the things my family exposed me too, by the essence of their characters, the things I admire within them, and those other aspects I reject adamantly as well.  One of those Bukowski lines states that one should "invent yourself and then reinvent yourself". Throughout my floundering process of becoming, I feel more and more that my life is defined by the things I do for others, and with that, secondary education is what I am studying here at college. I can only hope to develop the skills and perspective to become a inclusive and earnest educator who aims to help develop t...