Monday, September 21, 2009
I am not ashamed to say that finding out about the Roomba–the cute little robot that vacuums–is without a doubt the biggest life discovery I’ve made this year. I can’t stand furs and hairs and dust balls running willy-nilly all over our apartment’s wood floors. I am getting one of these, so hard.
The video is [...]
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Whoa. Last night I discovered that in addition to offering a franken-cracker that’s half cracker half pretzel (FlipSides: Part Pretzel. Part Cracker. All Good.™), Keebler’s Townhouse brand also makes a cracker that’s specially built for topping. That’s right, a Cracker Built for Topping.
WTF is a cracker built for topping you doubt!? Well, a cracker built [...]
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
I don’t care who you are, at some point in your life you’ve enjoyed the spoils of the most fabulous peddler of mass consumption on Earth, the Walmart. And if you’re one who sanctimoniously derides Walmart–saying you never shop there–then you shouldn’t be allowed to sit in lawn chairs or use storage bins or enjoy [...]
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When I was a kid, my friend Aaron always had the coolest stuff: An electric guitar with an amp built into it (looked way better than it sounded), Dynastar skis with Look bindings, and (the impetus for this post) Oakley Frogskins sunglasses. Frogskins (pictured below) were one of Oakley’s earliest sunglasses models. To be honest, [...]
For a guy who has a father of 100% Italian heritage, I’ve never felt particularly Italian-American. As a kid I didn’t get into mob movies or flip my shit over the Sopranos. And now especially, since living in New York City, I feel even further removed from Italian-American identity and culture. This you can blame [...]
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Healthcare advertising (my line of work), for all of its shortcomings, has one thing going for it: you can’t make a claim about a product/drug without hard-evidence proof to substantiate it. And for good reason, too. You wouldn’t want drug makers claiming their pills can save your life when there’s no evidence that they can. [...]
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So you’ve probably noticed that up until a few days ago things–economically at least–have looked a little better. The stock market teadily lolled up about 45% since its low in March, people spent more money on stuff, and the bearish media blowholes were intimating that we were beginning, perhaps, to turn the corner.
Then this week [...]
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Use the words trendy or chic. They are two of the most abused, meaningless, and transmogrified utterances in our wretched parlance. The worst part is it’s not going to go away. Trendy and chic are the go-to crutch for every half-ass dumbo writer working at a glossy magazine or in fashion. Why bother searching for [...]
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I’ve been thinking about the way trends begin and then eventually disappear in our culture a lot lately. Why is it these days, trends seem more likely to actually become permanent cultural changers than passing interlopers?
Let’s look at a time that had some pretty batshit trends—the early 90s. Men were wearing Hammer pants and shaving [...]
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I think the new Pepsi logo is deplorable (not that the old one was much better.) It’s unemotional derivation at its worst; the antithesis of Pepsi’s longtime, superior nemesis, Coke.
By chance we had a copy of Business Week lying around in our apartment this week, and of all things, there was an article in it [...]
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