There are two pieces of badvertising that I wanted to discuss on here today. Both were actually booze commercials, one for Jim Beam (aka Jim Bum) and Johnnie Walker. (bourbon and whiskey, repectively ( Read more... )

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Ok so I won't go into detail about my dream last night save for one crucial detail ( Read more... )

Gloria Steinhem said that “any woman who chooses to behave as a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon.”

Wise up. Rise up.

If representational visibility equals power, then almost-naked young white women should be running Western culture.

Peggy Phelan, "Unmarked: The Politics of Performance"

Me and Brian were telling ghost stories to each other last night and they SCARED THE BEJESUS OUT OF ME! These weren't some Goosebumps stories, these were stories that we've experienced or someone we knew experienced. Which makes it even better. I'll try to post them one at a time, because after all, it's almost Halloween! Maybe it'll inspire you to ( Read more... )

Every so often a co-worker will parade around their new crotch-dropping for the office. The understandably frazzled wife carts the kids up, with the other kids in tow, so everyone can coo and fawn over the brand new life. Strangely, this is the FOURTH kid to be born in the year that I've been here (and one other instance was TWINS!). Needless to ( Read more... )

I have to say something about child-rapist Roman Polanski. I've been all over the interwebz (like usual) reading about this and people's reprehensible response. Namely Hollywood. I've been on Hollywood's side more than once, because I mostly agree with their liberal-leaning ways. I applaud them for their Proposition Hate effort, I really do. But ( Read more... )

Hot topic is the way that we rhyme ( Read more... )

Here's a perfect example of the lazy sods I work with ( Read more... )