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— Flannery O'Connor

— TJ Sullivan in LA

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE: LA's Super Markup

© 2008 www.TJSullivanLA.com

A new post written by yours truly at Native Intelligence:

A few grocery facts from my weekly shopping experience …

Four pounds of hothouse tomatoes (pictured).

Local mom-and-pop market cost @ 69¢ per pound: $2.76

Local chain supermarket cost @ $3 per pound: $12 ...

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— TJ Sullivan in LA

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE: What's Honda See?

© 2007 American Honda Motor Co., Inc.

A new post written by yours truly at Native Intelligence:

I couldn't help but do a double take at the sight of Honda's double truck in the latest issue of Wired. The ad, which is part of Honda's Power of Dreams campaign, portrays what looked to me like the yellow-skied Los Angeles of the 1970s, but not exactly. So I pulled out the skyline shot I had blown up last year for my wife's office and did a side-by-side comparison. ...

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— TJ Sullivan in LA