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Super Bowl XXVII Nike, “Hare Jordan”
I haven’t watched the Super Bowl since I was a wee little one; despite growing up in a sports-loving household, I was the typical dork who got excited about the event only because I knew it was a chance to watch TV for more than three hours straight and eat tons of junk food. But as with most kids, I only really cared about the commercials, anyway. And the last one that sticks in my brain from the days before double digits is
“Hare Jordan,” the Nike ad that saw Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan team up to clown on some dim-witted knuckleheads. It was basically a minute-long Looney Tunes, complete with sound effects, albeit transposed to an exciting (for the time) real-world setting. I remember thinking it was funny and promptly forgetting about it that is, until a couple years later, when they took that idea and made a whole movie out of it. Perhaps you’ve heard of
Illustration: Allison Corr
Although a classic Valentine’s Day standby, the conversation heart is a feat of engineering we don’t often take time to appreciate. Necco Sweethearts have gone through hell and back to make it to store shelves this year, following the closure of the Necco plant in 2018, the purchase of the Sweethearts brand later that year by Spangler Candy Company, the transfer of delicate conversation-heart-printing equipment from Massachusetts to a new home in Ohio, a delay in 2019 production, damaged machinery, higher demand leading to shortages in 2020, and now, finally, a return to relative normalcy just in time for a world that is anything but normal.
Graphic: Allison Corr
A wanderer with terrible power, Sankofa, the protagonist of Hugo Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor’s latest novella,
Remote Control, has the aura of a mythological figure. She inspires a mix of hope and fear everywhere she goes, and there are numerous conflicting tales about who she is and what she’s capable of. But while the people she interacts with call her the adopted daughter of Death or a witch, Okorafor most directly compares her to the stick-up man Omar Little from
The Wire. Okorafor uses Omar’s taunting line to his enemies “You come at the king, you best not miss” as an epigraph. People mark Sankofa’s appearance in town by shouting, “Sankofa is coming,” a riff on the warnings that greeted Michael K. Williams’ shotgun-wielding robber of drug dealers.