Can I press the button if all the good jokes in the movie were in the TV ad and the rest totally sucks?
wcbstv.com – High-Tech Tattle-Tale Device Hits NYC Theaters

ABC News: Bomb Plot Thwarted at Falwell’s Funeral

Bilking the Elderly, With a Corporate Assist – New York Times
I’ve been working on a theory recently.  It says that business in modern America is operated with a “carny mentality.”  In other words, businesses, even very large ones, in this country, are operated exactly like a traveling carnival.  I’m sure you’ve been to a carnival [...]

Nespresso “FASHION” Espresso Machine in “CRYSTAL COUTURE” | Single Serve Coffee – SingleServeCoffee.com
If you’ve been reading this blog (or whatever this thing is), then you know that I consider slapping Swarovsky (it’s ALWAYS Swarovsky) crystals on otherwise ordinary appliances the Laziest P.R. Stunt Of All Time.  Here is it yet again, PROVING that ther is [...]

Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel:
“Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic
activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken
by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty,
instinctive opinions of a book (or any other cultural object). It is
work that requires disciplined taste, historical and theoretical
knowledge [...]