by Mark Christian | May 31, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
We’re all on drugs – Weezer In line with his film Roger & Me detailing the heartless incompetence of Detroit’s carmakers, Michael Moore once made an aside that if the government really wanted to defang organized crime, they should hire bungling GM management...
by Mark Christian | Apr 18, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
A new style of bar-making has emerged throughout the New World, dramatic enough to be added to the C-spot™ Census. These clean / lean ‘n mean high-percentage pieces embody an indigenous ‘retro-American’ approach. Usually containing only cocoa beans...
by Mark Christian | Apr 1, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
The FCC has its clusterfuck of banned words (none of them prohibited on this site). Here’s ours, & please contact us to add your own. DECADENT (or use with caution) DELECTABLE DELICIOUS DELIGHTFUL DIVINE CHOCOLATEY; CHOCOLATINESS COMPLEX, adj., excepting the 6th...
by Mark Christian | Mar 15, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Word-Cloud dataset from front & back of 23 bar wrappers claiming to be Arriba cacáo; image generated via Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/); Cristian Melo @ 2010 Chocolate, like sex, sells. Better yet when sold together – the M.O. of Vosges. But really, no need to...
by Mark Christian | Feb 17, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
The hysterics are wrong. 9/11 DID NOT change everything. That event, however momentous, forms part of a longer, continual loop of what prescient poet Robert Burns described back in 1785 as “man’s inhumanity to man”. Sgt. Pepper – now that arguably did change...
by Mark Christian | Feb 1, 2011 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Just as the C-spot™ holds no sacred cows (Thomas Keller pumps out chocolate confections that, at least in the take-away aspect of his biz, amounts to cupcakes at wedding-cake prices; ditto celebutard Jacque Torres who, to his credit, takes the most mediocre...
