Odd Consumer News Perfect for the man with . . . a lot of time on his hands: Link [http://www.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_detail.html?s=ZO20971]. Just $35.
Blogging from the East Shore of the Roman Sea Long-time readers of this blog (say, for the past four months) may remember that The Jerusalem Post is the publication that refers to "the homo-lesbian community," much to my amusement. Link. [https://thedailyeudemon.com/721/] Well, I just found out that TJP is heavy into blogging. Link [http:
Yikes For an extra $10, you can be somebody's boy. Twenty dollars will get you an S&M prison guard beating: > A Malaysian prison is offering adventurous travellers the chance to experience the joys of prison life - right down to the food and lack of toilets.
What's Lower? Being a porn icon or working for PETA? Link [http://www.helpinganimals.com/feat/ronjeremy/]. Excerpt: > Recently, Ron [Jeremy] proved that he's a big man when it comes to small animals by taking a break from his daily grind to pose for a new PETA ad promoting
Call a Barber and Aggressive Hunter . . . . . . not necessarily in that order: > The daring duo at Dolce & Gabbana has dropped the boundaries several inches. Their fall 2005 menswear line, which debuted on the Milan runway in January and now appears in print ads and stores near you, includes jeans that plunge so low that they&
Weighing in at Four Pounds . . . . . . the September 2005 issue of Vogue: > For years, September has brought heavy issues of monthlies, traditionally women's fashion and beauty magazines like Elle, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. More recently, other magazines are also producing ad-thick issues, in categories like men's lifestyle, health and
Brews You Can Use III When you fall off it, you'll know who to blame: An ad company is getting aggressive with its table top and bar stool advertising. Link [http://www.adrants.com/2005/08/table-top-advertising-gets-dose-of.php].
Odd Consumer News Giving the Muslims a real reason to bomb us: > Luxury toilet paper. At first it sounds like an insultingly obvious joke. Who would want such a thing? But then visions of those notorious $900 Gucci dog bowls flit through your mind, and you're haunted by the possibility
A Great Divorce? Tumultuous times in the advertising and media industries. When it all shakes out, will the blogosphere and other online cottage industries be in the mix? It's a fascinating time period that we suspect will be analyzed and discussed by industry experts and, later, historians for many years. >
We Never Get a Happy Medium For years, the advertising industry has been using ridiculously-skinny models and computer enhancements. Now, there's an "everyday woman" trend afoot. Ad agencies will use heavy women and, apparently, no enhancements. Couldn't we just get reasonably-attractive women, without the airbrushing or bilimia? Why the outlandish