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About Me
- Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
- I'm an entertainment editor at MSNBC.com, and have maintained Pop Culture Junk Mail since August, 1999. The New York Times called the site "one of the best places to explore pop culture online," and Entertainment Weekly included it on their Top 100 Web Sites list. If you like weird food, strange products, and 1970s and 1980s nostalgia, PCJM is your home away from home.
I have a brand new BOOK, written with Brian Bellmont. "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s." Buy it online, and follow our retro reminiscing on our GenXtinct blog, Facebook, and Twitter.
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When I was in Japan in 2003 I was poking around the grocery store looking for soap because I left all my body wash at home... (Who knew that a non-Japanese speaker would have trouble miming washing arms and trying to convey the meaning of bubbles? What a day.)
Anyway I thought I found some soap, cool, fancy United Colours of Benneton soap, and headed to the check out.
I had about 4 grapefruits (I think $8 each in the end) and my soap, paid, then went back to the hotel. Who knew my box of soap would turn out to be a box of condoms? With cartoon instructions inside? In pastel colours?
Just found the box last month when I was moving, actually. I wish I hadn't thrown it away so I could send a picture to you!
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