Archive for February, 2009

A bit of a tuneful diversion

Boyz by M.I.A., because I’m not just into weird German Klaus Nomi deriv­a­tives. Boyz — M.I.A. Just try to get that hook out of your head. Reminds me, in a good way, of Gwen Stefani.

I am the wineman, they are the winemen, I am the…

Last week I pointed to a hideous ad for Schenley’s whiskey that ran in Life mag­a­zine in 1947. It was notable for its attempts to use a cutesy car­toon char­ac­ter to sell alco­hol. Well, goo-goo-g’joob.

This Kool-​​Aid is way past its expiration date

Over at Cagle’s, Gary McCoy unleashed a kilo­word worth of duh. Either this car­toon is eight years out of date and has essen­tially been reis­sued with a new cap­tion, or McCoy is pathet­i­cally, hope­lessly out of touch. This level of clearly will­ful blind­ness to real­ity just makes my head hurt.

Mehr Nina Hagen

Tiere: Now that’s a video.

Because I bet you never.

Nina Hagen. Behold. 60 kilos of HAWT.

Bishop: There was no Holocaust. Pope: ZOMG FTW

Right, the excommunication-​​​​then-​​​​redemption of Bishop Richard Williamson is all over the news, the lat­est being that he can get back into the fold if he recants his denial of the Holocaust. The Vatican demanded Wednesday that a bishop who denied the Holocaust recant his posi­tions before being fully admit­ted into the Roman Catholic Church. I can […]

Open letter to John McCain

Senator McCain, as an Arizona con­stituent I’m respect­fully ask­ing you to stop attack­ing the new President and his poli­cies. Your party, the GOP, had eight years in the White House and a decade plus in the leg­is­la­ture. In that time we’ve found our­selves immersed in two ruinous wars and slid­ing rapidly into cat­a­strophic depres­sion. The policies […]