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The world says good-bye to “Lost” and “24″ while I never even said Hello.
“I can’t find Steffan anywhere!” Recently I wrote about “choice overload” and its impact on modern society. I was inspired by Barry Schwartz’ book, The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. Like the...
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Gap logo fiasco gives folks in Adland fits, but what do we think of our own...
Holy logo changes, Batman! A lot of us were upset by the Gap’s new logo, especially the design and advertising community. The Gap logo fiasco (sounds like a bad rap act, doesn’t it?) made me think...
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Bad decisions, a new drug and cereal. Riffing on the Miley Cyrus “Bong Video.”
Miley tripping for the camera Let me get this out of the way first: I don’t necessarily think there’s anything wrong with Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana experimenting with drugs. It’s certainly not...
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Conventional wisdom suggests we ignore what’s written in the tabloids. So,...
He didn’t respond so it must be true! I still haven’t read the comments on Agency Spy’s “story” about me leaving my job at Euro RSCG Chicago. But then a visitor to my own blog (by the name JT) had to...
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Charlie Sheen: Holy crap, did we drink your milkshake!
“I am the shark!” Last week popular culture jumped the shark. Yes, I know popular culture is always jumping the shark. But not like last week. This was something else. Last week popular culture...
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Pop culture as seen from a lawn chair on Kangaroo Lake…
Shirtless Piven. There but for the grace of God… Three straight days of uninterrupted sunshine and mirth in Door County, Wisconsin have delivered me a bunch of largemouth bass and a tan that would...
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Super 8 and melodrama: Too much loving makes the movie go bad.
Oh, the humanity! Super 8 While I enjoyed parts of it, Super 8 bugged the crap out of me. The same way a lot of movies do, particularly big budget sci/fi and horror pictures. There’s too much...
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Retromania! From Pony Cars to Lady Ga Ga, is pop culture addicted to the past?
Yearning for what came before… Retromania is the title of a new book by Simon Reynolds. I haven’t read it but it’s about “pop culture’s addiction to it’s own past.” Indeed, most new pop music does...
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Quantifying fame in the age of You Tube, Facebook and Klout.
Tweeting in his grave? At a restaurant the other day I overheard a woman paraphrase the famous (pun intended) Andy Warhol quote, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” She was...
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With his iconic movies fading into nostalgia, who is the John Hughes for...
John Hughes. Don’t you forget about me… Legendary filmmaker and former adman, John Hughes worked fast, writing scripts for many of his most famous films over feverish, coffee-fueled weekends. Most of...
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It’s an even madder, mad, mad world when it’s caught on tape and shared like...
“Kiss me I’m Irish!” Has the human race jumped the shark? Talk about a Mondo couple of days. Where to begin? Was anything more sadly horrific than watching Donald Sterling dig himself into the abyss...
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Slavishly “reporting” on every dumbass Tweet creates a dumbass world.
Have you noticed news publishers rapidly escalating their reporting of Tweets by anyone and everyone in the public eye? Be it a C-list celebrity or the President of the United States (the same thing...
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