I knew that I Can Has Cheezburger was a shamefully fun time waster. What I didn’t know until a Time magazine article earlier this month was just how many people also enjoy something as simplistic as unusual photos of cats with funny captions - the meme known as “LOLCATs”. Technorati ranks the […]

Last week Walt Disney Co. took a fairly bold step, Disney will ban cigarettes in its family films, and discourage it in others– like the adult film divisions: Touchstone and Miramax.
Actors and actresses have been puffing away in movies and in television since the 50’s. I can see this being a real hard sell for […]

On July 2, Spike wrote about some of the fictional brands from the Simpsons showing up in specially outfitted 7-11s (now Kwik-E-Mart’s). There has been so much additional Simpsons marketing this week, I had to post an update with some of my favorites.

C. Montgomery Burns has taken over the blog of JetBlue’s David Neeleman. […]

I was listening to the radio on my drive to work this morning, and I heard a commercial that just seemed mean spirited. The commercial was, of all things, for Carowinds - an amusement park on the North Carolina/South Carolina border. Among other things, the voiceover sang, “Little league, law school, first job, […]

I was, for an Austin resident, relatively late to the Netflix phenomenon. We’ve been loyal subscribers for the last 3-4 years and even bought a second subscription for my parents. I originally thought Netflix would be inconvenient, but after hearing raves from so many other folks, we gave it a shot and never […]

I received my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Saturday afternoon, and emerged from the pages last night, tear-stained and satisfied.  It was an emotional weekend.  Really, I don’t think I could have asked for more from the close to this fantastic heptology (thanks to Jon Stewart for that one).  And yet… it’s […]

If you haven’t heard by now, there’s a newly-published collaborative book written by 103 bloggers from all around the globe. Entitled “The Age of Conversation,” it’s each authors take on the new frontier of conversational marketing. It was the brainchild of Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan, with every single cent of the proceeds going to […]

Or so says Tom Brzezina, a life-long Michigan resident who is fed up with the negative press focused on his beloved state.
His response? A “valentine” he created for Michigan in the form of a blog where he encourages Michigan residents to send in their stories, pictures, events, etc.
Michigan has a million stories to tell—amusing, amazing, […]

The following is an email sent out by our First Impressionist, Steve Shultz, this morning. You just gotta love the airlines - especially when you in live in a place both Southwest and JetBlue don’t service.
Subject: Where’s Steve?
He’s here.
And, as per Trey’s brilliant suggestion, here’s the detailed story, so I only have to relive it […]

If your one of the millions that’s seen “Transformers” you’ve seen the rather startling and cryptic movie trailer for a yet to be named movie by Lost creator JJ Abrams. The only clue on the trailer is the date 1-18-08. I went to the website last week and saw one picture marked 01/18/2008 12:01A. And […]