The diplomatic meeting is of no consequence. It’s just a minor blip on the radar of classified documents published by Wikileaks. On December 17, 1975, in Paris, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met Abdelaziz Bouteflika Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria. As published in a secret memorandum, the first part of the exchange...
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By now, the Wieden & Kennedy ad campaign for Old Spice, featuring Isaiah Mustafa, is a thing of legend. Even Advertising Age, not prone to handing out cheap praise, says that they have seen nothing like The Man Your Man Could Smell Like campaign. Oh, and it’s over, too. Really? You didn’t even know...
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Holy crap. Hausu (1977) is a Japanese film that blog Dangerous Minds calls “a mixtape compiled by a demented Carl Jung–immersive, repellent, hysterical and visionary.” Share and Enjoy: Print this article! Digg Google Bookmarks StumbleUpon Sphinn del.icio.us Facebook Yahoo! Bookmarks Yahoo! Buzz Technorati
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Radiohead’s “Creep,” performed by the Vega Choir of Sweden, has been burning up the Internet like a match on a gasoline-soaked haystack. Hit Play and scroll down this page and find out what’s going on with Vega Choir’s “Creep.” What is “Creep”? “Creep” is a song by English band Radiohead that was released in...
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What to call these men who, in decades past, did fearsome things for a purpose and did so with utter aplomb? While dangerously close to yes men, the term yestermen works for me. He’s the man who saves the woman from falling off of Mt. Rushmore–all without taking off his tie. The polar opposite...
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I have long been suspicious of the word Realtor, Realtor®, REALTOR®, or whatever it is. It began years ago when I noticed that the National Association of Realtors stressed that they were called the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® and that their members were obviously called…REALTORS® That’s right. All caps and with the registered trademark...
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Recently, I read an Associated Press assessment of how the American suburbs are no longer “your father’s suburbs of the 1950s and 1960s” and have become educated communities with vibrant arts scenes, and where Brazilian grocers and Vietnamese nail salons reside joyfully next to one another. Civic leaders in the city of Shawnee and...
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