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Morning Musings: From Blog Rebranding to Twitter Bird Auctions
Have you ever considered what makes a brand truly memorable? Today we're diving into the fascinating world of rebranding – both personal and corporate – as I contemplate moving beyond "Carol Remarks" to create something with more universal appeal. Finding that perfect name is challenging when everything good seems already taken!
Speaking of rebranding, the iconic Twitter bird is officially a collector's item. The massive sign from Twitter's San Francisco headquarters – weighing a whopping 560 pounds and measuring 12 by 9 feet – just sold at auction for $35,000. This piece of internet history represents Twitter's pre-Musk identity, now preserved as corporate memorabilia. It raises an intriguing question: what piece of American signage or memorabilia would you treasure if money were no object?
Coffee lovers, brace yourselves – your morning brew is getting more expensive. Wholesale Arabica prices have doubled since last year, shattering previous records at $4.30 per pound. By next February, ground roast coffee could average $7.25 per pound. But for those of us who consider coffee a non-negotiable daily essential (especially when we "don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs"), we'll likely continue paying whatever it costs. We also touch on Rachel Zegler landing the lead in "Evita" despite "Snow White" criticism, and explore whether the mind-splitting technology from "Severance" could ever become reality (spoiler alert: neuroscientists say our memories don't work that way).
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Well, hello, good morning, happy Monday. We are going to get right into it. I have several topics and I'm not going to dive too much into each of them because I have a lot, all right. But first of all I want to talk about rebranding. I'm thinking about rebranding my blog, growing it, because I really enjoy writing and stuff like that, and researching and doing that, putting words together on the Internet to write and put out there. But nobody cares what Carol has to say, and you know my blog has been Carol Remarks forever. I want to get a more globally, that could be globally recognized name, a generic name that doesn't necessarily have my name on it. So I need to. It's hard. It's hard to come up with something, and everything that I like is usually taken so something with pop culture, newsy type things. You know how Politico has that, or Media Buzz or something like. You know something generic that people would go like oh, let's go see what blah blah blah has to say. You know what I'm saying? Okay, I'm sorry I spent way too much long, way too much time on that crap. All right, we're moving on to the headlines that I have put out there, all right? So I'm going to talk about one, two, three, four, five. I think I have five topics I wanted to put out there. Yeah, so let's start with the Twitter bird. Remember when Twitter was Twitter and the logo was a little blue bird? How cute.
Speaker 1:Well, the sign that stood in the San Francisco office or outside of the office has sold in an auction for $35,000. The iconic Twitter bird sign that used to adorn the company's old San Francisco headquarters before Elon Musk rebrand speaking of rebrands and gutting of the company was sold at an auction and nearly $35,000. It does. I don't think it tells me who bought it. I tried to figure out. I wanted to see who bought it. I'm not sure who bought it, but RR Auctions is the one that did it, and they do things. Their collection consists of anything ranging from footage of JFK's assassination to even old New York post front pages. Since 2022, the auction company has sold 53 objects directly related to Elon Musk, primarily consisting of things that he'd signed, like photos of himself and dollar bills.
Speaker 1:Well, how about that? So I think I want to go with the question of the day. Well, first of all, the heavyweight fowl that they sold, the sign. I want to tell you the little specs about. It weighs approximately 560 pounds and measures a staggering 12 feet by 9 feet. Uh, thank you for putting it in american terms feet and feet, not kilometers, or whatever you call it. However, that would be all right. So there you go.
Speaker 1:Uh, my question of the day if you could own any kind of Americana signage or something like that, and money wasn't an object, what would you like to buy or have possession of? I don't mean artwork, I mean signage like the Twitter bird or I don't know. I don't even know. I don't know what would you like to have? What signage would you like to have? What signage like would you like to have from our American past?
Speaker 1:All right, next up, us coffee prices are going up, and that's. I don't like it, but I'm still going to pay for it because I have to have coffee. Look, I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so I I'm gonna spend my money on coffee, okay. Okay, us coffee drinkers can expect rising prices as perfect storm of factors impact globally global supply chains. Americans can expect the price of their daily cup of java to stretch their wallet a bit more than usual, as a litany of factors impacting the global supply chain result in rising prices. In February, wholesale Arabica coffee prices shattered its previous record of $4.30 a pound double the price from last year, the price from last year. Wow. Now coffee roasters who took their chances in the futures markets are feeling the burn and could pass the price off to customers. Of course they will, oh my. So in February 2025, the average price of ground roast coffee rose to a record high of $7.25 a pound.
Speaker 1:I'm going to tell y'all something. The gent and I if you've followed us, if you listen to us on our other podcasts or here, whatever we are a bit of a coffee snob and we've paid more than $7.35 a pound for our coffee, where we get it from. So yeah, you got that going on and let's see what else is going on. Let's see what else is. Would you pay higher prices for coffee? Are you a coffee person? Let's say you're not. Let's say your thing is Coke, coca-cola or Dr Pepper or whatever, and their prices went up. Would you still buy it or would you say, no, that's enough, all right.
Speaker 1:Next up, rachel Zegler lands lead role in Evita in wake of Snow White disaster. So just because Snow White was horrible doesn't mean she's not going to work again. She's landed another job. I'm not going to go over that story Now. Severance I am watching Severance right now. I watched the first season, of course, and then I waited forever for the second season to come out. Second season is so far a little disappointing. I don't know why it just is. It's just something a little different. It's quite different From New York Post.
Speaker 1:Could severance become reality? Oh, they're saying. Oh, no, no, I don't know if you know what the show is about, but it's about these people that decide, for whatever reason, they go to this place called Lumen that's the name of their employer and so they have this procedure that they do. They have this chip or whatever implanted in their brain so that when they go to Lumen, they forget about their outside world, their real world. And then, when they come up out from Lumen, they go back to their real world and they forget about what's happening at Lumen, at lumen. So they're like two different personalities. They don't know what the other one's doing. They have the private life and then they have the work life and they don't know what the other one is doing. And so now these researchers or scientists, or this article, is saying that it could become a reality, according to dr vajay agarwal.
Speaker 1:No, a neurosurgeon who has served as a consultant for severance, told Science American no, I don't think so, doctor. Instead of trying to juggle work-life balance, why not just split the two entirely? If Apple TV severance taught us anything, it's that it's not that simple, while the surgical procedure that Lumen Industries employees undergo to sever their work and home memories is pure science fiction. Experts in the field say it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility. Uh, yes, it is. It's out of the realm of possibility. Of course, I'm getting closer to retirement, so this is really not going to affect me.
Speaker 1:In case you've somehow avoided the craze, severance follows a group of workers who have experimental chips implanted in their brains to split their consciousness. Okay, I've already explained that to you. I think I explained it quite well. Let's see to you. I think I explained it quite well. Let's see, our memories are distributed across networks of neurons and you can't simply just turn off part of your life without affecting the others. He added this is the doctor. I guess you could, for instance, knock out short-term memory if you have severed both hippo. Okay, I'm not even going to go there. He now he's using words I can't pronounce, so you can go finish reading the article if you'd like. Um, all right, so I've already done questions of the day and I guess that's it night. Keep short and simple, all right, or maybe I don't know if it's sweet or not, but it's short, all right. I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Love y'all. Bye.
