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Un-Advertising: Your Commute, Now With Social Commentary
If you’re an LA commuter running out of things to say to the people in your car pool, try planning your route to work past the sites of the 21 soaring pieces of art in the MAK Center’s city-wide...
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When False Advertising Merges into Cruelty
You’re driving on the highway. You’ve been driving on the highway for hours. And hours. And hours. Maybe you’re on your way from New York to Austin, Texas for SXSW. The Mid-Atlantic states long ago...
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Are You Too Cool for the Census? Yes/No Check One
Census forms are due today. Did you fill yours out? I did, and for that I can honestly credit the gov’s $133 million marketing campaign. The spending seems exorbitant, but it must have been effective...
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I Hate Your Body… of Work
The “I Love My Body” Victoria’s Secret campaign has been running for several months now, but I only just had the pleasure of catching one of the TV spots. You guys love your bodies, huh? Go fuck...
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It’s Always Sunny Sells Out in Season Six
When your favorite band — that one you knew since they pressed their first seven inch back in high school — sells out it’s easy to get a little outraged. And it feels entirely justifiable, in a...
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Women’s Thoughts on Sexist Ads More Offensive than Ads Themselves
My brother sent me a link to some awesomely sexist magazine ads on icanhasinternets.com. So entertaining the mid-20th Century obsession with douching (if you don’t, he’ll leave you) and those...
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Eat this! It’ll make you doody!
Spotted in Boston at the Fenway Park subway station, a rather ill-advised ad for Chipotle burritos. Too bad the baseball wordplay means nothing, and doesn’t distract from the immediate associations...
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Journalism, by the Numbers, by the Wayside
For a quick by-the-numbers lesson on the sad state of current media affairs, read the opening sentence of media guru Ken Auletta’s column in this week’s New Yorker: In the past three years, newspaper...
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Character Assassination: The State Farm Guy
In this first edition of Character Assassination, allow me to present The State Farm Guy: I don’t know what it is about him that makes me dislike him so. He’s just so… smarmy. He makes me squirm. I...
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Incongruous Cross-Promotional Banner Ad of the Day
Doris, could you order us some more legal pads, a box of blue Bics and a 16-pound bird? Thanks.
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