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Twitter Flips Us the Bird

We know I don’t think much of Twitter, even though I Tweet Boles Blogs Network updates.  I’m sort of the lonesome stepchild standing in the street yelling to everyone around me — “But the bird has no feathers!” — while the restless crowd around me Tweets about Twitter’s beautiful plumage. 
Over the weekend, my Twitter rage was redeemed by Twitter itself as it finally confessed its utterly dark yearnings in an official blog post telling us they only value protecting the identity of celebrity and fame and not the everyday ordinary Twit like us.

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The Commercial Ringing Phone Syndrome

In 2006, the New York Times confirmed an annoying niggle that was driving me batty:  Songs were being created with cellular phone ringtones intermittently interwoven in the background of the music to encourage your ear to listen to the unfamiliar song with a dedicated, if cryptic, authenticity.

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A Ten Foot Frame for a Five Inch Watercolor

Super Bowl 43 was played last night and the Steelers beat the Cardinals 27-23 in a barnburner for the centuries.  The problem with the NBC broadcast was not the game, but rather the massive, and unnecessary 10-foot frame of spectacle, commercialism and crass self-promotion that overpowered the delicate watercolor of a beautifully executed game of football.

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Ten Sixteen

Dr. Phil, Oprah, Judge Judy.

Advertising for a crumbling humanity.

Amanda Beard: Using the Sexless to Sell Sex

Amanda Beard is a United States Olympic swimmer.  She’s good in the water, but in print, she’s barely tolerable as a sexual siren wannabee.  There’s nothing harder to witness than an unsuccessful seller of sexuality failing at her primary directive:  Love me, Daddy, because I’m overly airbrushed and sensual.

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