I feel fairly confident that Fritoy-Lay employs stoned drop-outs to engineer their products. There really can’t be any other explanation for things like Wasabi Funyuns or Munchies (and Munchies’ close snack brother, Flaming Hot Munchies). Does a product named Munchies even necessitate commentary?
Frito-Lay is also responsible for Oh Boy! Oberto Meat Snacks. Incidentally, singer-songwriter Max […]
Trojan has taken a few steps beyond “ribbed for her pleasure” with Elexa, a whole product line “created from a woman’s perspective and designed to help you realize a more fulfilling sex life.” I think this is up there with Burmashave contriving to get women to shave their legs.
The Elexa web presence is a […]
Jenny McCarthy appears to be testing the limits of her camp appeal with Dirty Love, a movie she wrote and stars in about a woman who gives up on love and settles for “good old cheap meaningless sex.” The film also stars Carmen Electra, making the movie seem like a concerted effort to bring back […]
Hummer. Like Nothing Else on Earth. Thank God.
Hummer has started rolling out rugged, all-terrain laptops. Sadly, they have not yet started enabling mountaintops and desert landscapes with wireless connections, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time. And, for those of you trendsetters in the audience, be it known that the monstrosities computers […]
This ad from Nike seems to be making a soft sell for anal sex. When I stare at the ad long enough, I can almost here someone whining, “C’mon, just do it.”
Additionally, the ad carefully co-opts feminist body politics. It seems to be saying, sure, you can have a big ass, but it better […]
My favorite semi-designer hipster t-shirt outlet, Threadless, raised $50,000 for the Red Cross in less than 48 hours. If you buy this shirt, the company will give $10 to the Red Cross. The shirt is $10, so, basically, you’re giving $10 to charity and getting a neat shirt for the cost of shipping.
In other […]
Germany has a lot to offer the world — things like opera and David Hasselhoff worship and a registered anarchist party. This last bit is interesting since Germany has a cute little policy whereby all registered political parties with television air time. The German Anarchist Pogo Party used their air time to show a bunch […]
You know you’ve arrived when you get celebrated in limited-edition shoe form by the likes of John Fluevog. Using this standard of judgement, the Pink Nun has in fact, arrived.
The Pink Nun isn’t here to preach at you, she’s here to try to convince you to “Respect yourself before you wreck yourself,” when it […]
Fats Domino is apparently alive and kicking, and Irma Thomas is right here in Austin and has already made a radio appearance on KGSR. On the other hand, RL Burnside is no longer with us.
I’m sure everyone has, by now, seen Kanye West’s famous, “George Bush does not care about black people” remark, but, […]
Celebrities die all the time. However, I expect them to die of old age or drug overdose or dramatic accident. I do not expect them to get whisked away in flood waters just like regular people. In the wake of Katrina, a number of musicians are missing, among them Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer […]