Archive for January, 2010

  I don’t know who these people are or whether or not they’re any good but their ads are GENIUS!  

It’s only January 25th but Air New Zealand has already launched and crashed a major marketing campaign. The campaign was based around the “mating habits” of Kiwi cougars (older women seeking younger men, for those of you lucky enough not to know). I really, really can’t top the News of Australia’s description: In the Discovery [...]

Google has “threatened” to pull out of China because – SURPRISE – the government was using Goog to get info on dissidents. NAHHH? Really? Next you’ll tell me that Mark McGwire was using steroids. Google … said that the company had discovered massive cyber attacks against itself and numerous other foreign companies that it said [...]

God bless you, Buddy Cianci. Cianci –– former mayor of Providence, RI, current radio talk show host, and convicted felon – says he may get back into politics. Cianci says he may run against either Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-Carpet Bagger) or current Mayor David N. Cicilline (the only gay Jewish Italian mayor IN THE WORLD!). [...]

There are a lot of good editorial cartoonists but – as with any other art form – there are very few great ones. The great ones are the ones whose work we still look at long after that moment in time has passed. These include Brits like Hogarth, Scarfe, Steadman to name a few – [...]

Did you know Domino’s makes lousy pizza? While this is well known throughout the rest of the nation it seems to have just become known to those at Domino’s HQ. (Only possible explanation: The execs make too much money to eat their own product.) For a while the company tried — and failed — to [...]