A Crash Course in Creativity presentation

1. Shopping for peas
James Lindberg
A Crash Course in Creativity
10/29/2012

2. You've got to buy peas to eat peas
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But where to go? Where to go?

3. Looks like a warehouse
Better called a where?house
Great place to be
for spending a week
playing hide and seek
Peas?
Better like 'em canned.

4. Greeted by flowers
at Trader Joe's
Of course Why not?
We aim to be pleasant.
But shopping is chaos, designed or not.
Biscotti, red peppers, and frozen peas
arranged all together, defying your logic.
But we're smart you see;
we're sure that next week
you'll find our pheasant.

5. What kind peas? Frozen peas - Organic! non-GMO! We are so proud.
What? How do we stand on Prop 37? What shall we do? Oh no, oh no
$4 B in assets, $9 B in revenues
Oh yes, oh yes. What shall we do?
The hour is late,
the stakes are high
We certainly want to go to heaven
We think we'll support Prop 37

6. Want a pea or got a pea?
New Leaf down the road in HMB
has several special advantages.
Veggies piled high with
obsessive-compulsive
precision
and a cart
where no child
can put
its wet bottom

7. o Not far away, still Half Moon Bay
You walk in a store called Safeway
Whoa!
Season those peas with virtual pepper and butter
and follow that up with visual assault and clutter.

8. Shucks! Peas bought at the roadside
These peas may be the best of all.
What you see is what you get,
and just like Cracker Jack's
there are prizes in every package.

9. Acknowledgments
Thanks to Sandra K. Renshaw for technical
advice.

10. References
Whole Foods financial status from
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011/snapshots/10572.html (accessed
10/30/2012)
Whole Foods endorsement of Proposition 37 from http://www.naturalproductsinsider.
com/news/2012/10/prop-37-draws-support-of-whole-foods-unfi.aspx (accessed 10/30/2012)