It's been bugging me for several weeks that there's been a local political ad where someone thought they were being clever, but instead were just showing off that they don't listen to what they say.  The ad ended with ( Read more... )

So there's this commercial playing in Chicago about this retailer that's opening up shops in, like, three new suburbs ( Read more... )

Does anyone else find this ad really disturbing? It's for freezer cheese sticks and you get this mom doing a voice over ( Read more... )

• Because I have a for-real job now (I have an official email address and access to the local network and *everything*), I'm trying to front-load my Etsy shop with Valentine's Day stuff.  I'm working on big heart soaps, 'conversation heart' bath bombs and a few other things.  I was doing great gangbusters on it this morning until I ran out of ( Read more... )

So I'm clicking around the web requesting free samples of anything that looks like I might be able to use it and I get to this webpage:


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Way the first: I am pleased that it will rain tomorrow. Why? It's effing block party day. I know, I know, I should be all about friendly interaction with my neighbors, but THEY NEVER DO IT RIGHT! I complain about this every year and the next year they still do the same damn thing: set the band-stage up in front of *my* building. Now, many of ( Read more... )

Remember a while ago, in a list of other stuff, I asked why the chimpanzee in the Dodge ad was suddenly an 'invisible monkey'?

Now I know. PETA skooled Dodge. And now there is no more 'monkey'. (Not that it ever was a monkey, but that's kind of besides the point.)

They have chicken on a stick. They have INDIVIDUALLY SOLD chicken on a stick. They have individually sold chicken on a stick for $1 each. And it comes in two flavors and both rock my world. (Buffalo and Teryaki ( Read more... )

And one of them is my period. (Don't worry, this isn't as TMI as it could be ( Read more... )