Design Interns on HGTV. If you haven’t seen it and you’re a designer, tune in. It will make your blood boil. The basic premise is that a team of student designers essentially work for this agency for free for the opportunity, the opportunity (!) to get an internship at said agency. It’s spec work on [...]
Does anyone else find Kristen Wiig unwatchable? Each week, I cringe whenever an SNL skit airs in which she has a role. It’s not because she’s objectionable as a person. Rather, whenever she’s the star of a skit, the writing takes back seat and the “comedy” is reduced to a series of Wiig’s silly faces [...]
Perhaps the most memorable moment from Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was when he exclaimed “Enough!” He was referring to the past eight years of GOP corruption and mismanagement, but another recent phenomenon is nearly as serious, and warrants just as stern a rebuke: men wearing plaid shorts.
It’s uncertain who first [...]
I’ve been watching TV for 90 minutes tonight and it’s a conservative estimate to say that a full 30 of those minutes consisted of ads for the new Batman movie. And these aren’t just your run-of-the-mill, 30 second ads, these are full blown two minute trailers. And they’re seemingly on EVERY channel. ESPN, NBC, ABC, [...]
What’s up the Coors “Code Blue” ad campaign? The whole concept is ridiculous: when the label turns blue, your beer is cold enough to drink. Or as the ad’s announcer says, “When the label turns blue, your beer is as cold as the Rockies!” I assume that means it’s cold enough to drink.
Coors does some [...]
So I’m watching Larry King’s tribute to the late George Carlin and I’m thinking to myself, “Oh, he’s got Jerry Seinfeld on for the hour to talk about George Carlin. That’s nice.” Then Larry tosses to the first break and announces that Seinfeld will be leaving but Bill Maher will be joining them. “Fine,” I [...]
So I’m watching NBC’s hit comedy show about comedy, “Last Comic Standing” and they break for one of those show-sponsored comercials, you know like the ones during “American Idol” where all the contestants are ludicrously singing whie driving around in a Ford Focus. Except this ad was for a Honda Pilot (why are they always [...]