Of course, by “happy days,” I mean the days of child labor, like, say, the 1890′s.  Bravo, CBS/Viacom, for realizing the entertainment potential in taking a group of pre-teen kids, dropping them in a ghost town in New Mexico with no adult supervision and working them for up to 24 hours a day while videotaping [...]

Remember when I pointed out the other day how none of the most popular websites were created by any of the Big Media Conglomerates? So, if you’re Viacom, NBC/Universal, Disney/ABC or one of the other BMC’s and you’ve been hearing about this “Internet” thing and how popular it’s becoming and you want to get in [...]

Just yesterday, I trashed the Big Media Conglomerates for being such a bunch of tight-assed rip-off artists.  I was right, they are.  Every once in a while, though, one of them actually does something that isn’t a huge, stinking piece of impacted manure. This, my friends, is one of those.  Behold the weirdness which is [...]

What do Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Google, The Drudge Report, Craigslist, YouTube have in common?  They (and others) are among the hottest sites on the Internet…and not a single one of them was conceived or developed by one of the big media corporations.  Not one of them was the brainchild of NBC/Universal, Disney/ABC, CBS or Viacom.  [...]

I’m getting pretty damn sick of having to point out that gluing Swarovsky (it’s ALWAYS Swarovsky) crystals to some stupid run-of-the-mill gadget is the fucking LAMEST P.R. STUNT OF ALL TIME!  This time around, it’s a T-shirt, which, like all of these stupid things, no one will ever buy (they’re not really intended to be [...]