I shouldn’t have laughed so hard when I saw this.
Works Every Time
This BizWeek article on how fast food joints don’t give a crap about healthy eating is accompanied by a slideshow of Bad Things We Love, which features some great headlines. I’ve been afraid to try Coca Cola BlaKKK, but my drink of choice in grad school gets its own page in the slideshow: With its [...]
Relief Effort
Well, after busting my ass for a couple of weeks on this writing-heavy issue of the magazine, with plans to work through the long weekend in order to get the pages out Wednesday morning, I discovered that another magazine at our company is way off schedule and is shipping with ours from the printer. So, [...]
Good thing Ian didn’t bring up his Navy record
Last December, Amy & I stopped in on one of the hotels in New Orleans where we were planning to reserve a block of rooms for guests at our wedding. The place was still under reconstruction, but one of the upper floors had just been refurnished, the desk clerk told us. The guard would take [...]
ARE you stupid?
Writing my Top Companies profile of GlaxoSmithKline, I came across congressional testimony about the acts that animal rights knuckleheads have committed against GSK employees. Yesterday, working on Roche‘s profile, I came across some moonbats who think that the avian flu is a hoax meant to enrich Donald Rumsfeld. I, on the other hand, still think [...]
No Mermaids, But Plenty of Hitler Cats
The weather’s pretty grotesque here in NJ/NY today, so we’re going to pass on the Mermaid Parade at Coney Island. Someday I’ll get to see it. . . Till then, enjoy a parade of cats that look like Hitler.
Hey, Big Ed!
The Official VM Wife thinks Gatorade missed a major chance in its Big Head TV campaign when they didn’t use Giada De Laurentiis Think of how much money they could have saved on special effects!
Oops, etc.
Here’s an entertaining fashion article in the Washington Post on the meltdown that is Britney: During the “Dateline” interview, Spears tearfully implored the paparazzi to leave her alone. Her pleas were reasonable and tugged at the heart. One came close to forgetting that she had encouraged the attention with her provocative videos, snake-charming stage performance, [...]