Friday, September 24, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Monkey Business at Prada
"They’re carrying fox fur stoles, some striped like a tiger’s tail, and monkeys are scrambling up the sides of some of the dresses.."
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Hump day haiku
Serial monogamy
Divorced? No more.
Single is the new status
On social networks
When a man loves a woman
Single moms, you rock
Hubby is gone for the week
Toilet is backed up
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Door ringers last night
Take Action Minnesota
You are kidding, right?
Sales of Comic Books Plunge. Is Liberal Bias to Blame?
[T]he Aug. 2010 comic sales were down 17 percent from one year earlier, the steepest year-over-year sales slide since the 19 percent drop in May 2009...Only time will tell if this is an aberration or the sign of a steepening slide for the sequential art industry....the most popular comic book in the country sold a little over 90,000 copies nationwide. That's a smaller circulation than many regional newspapers.
As many people know, comic books used to have sales figures in the millions. Even as late as 1996, an issue of X-men had a circulation more twice what it is now.
I'm sure there are many reason for the decline. Still, I have to wonder if the mainstream companies' strong pro-Obama, pro-liberal, bias isn't a contributing factor.
Since 2009, mainstream comic books, especially from industry leader Marvel, have gone out of their way to laud the president and attack his detractors. The company even went so far as to publish a story where Captain America all but declared the Tea Party to be a group of racists...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Top 5 Most Sinister Corporate Logos
From The Vigilant Citizen:
"Big corporations pay millions in public relations to make customers associate their brand with a warm and fuzzy feeling. It is imperative that the soulless and inherently greedy nature of the corporation be hidden behind a family-friendly facade. But some companies just don’t give a hoot. They hate you, your family and especially your cat and they don’t care if you know it. They even display their evilness right on their logo. Here is my top 5 of most sinister logos."
"Yes, I agree they make great looking European cars. But look closely at the logo. Why is there a snake eating a little terrified guy on it? I mean me personally, I’m a human, not a giant snake-dragon. So the fact that a snake is eating a person is unsettling for me because I tend to identify with the person and not the giant crowned snake. If you look at the logo’s history, the ancient ones depicted the guy in a more vivid way."
"In older logos, the little guy is in different color, still waving his arms in a seemingly desperate cry for help
The official story of the logo is that Romano Cattaneo was given the task to come up with a badge for the then new company, in 1910. While waiting for a train at Piazza Castello in Milan, he gained inspiration from the Visconti family’s coat of arms displayed on a door. It features a “biscione” which is a serpent eating a human child. It reportedly terrified the local populous of Milan in the early part of the 5th century A.D. It has been said that the human being eaten is a Moor, during the Crusades. If that’s the case, who or what does the serpent symbolize?.."
Original:
Top 5 Most Sinister Corporate Logos
Related:
Is it Something in the Water?
"Big corporations pay millions in public relations to make customers associate their brand with a warm and fuzzy feeling. It is imperative that the soulless and inherently greedy nature of the corporation be hidden behind a family-friendly facade. But some companies just don’t give a hoot. They hate you, your family and especially your cat and they don’t care if you know it. They even display their evilness right on their logo. Here is my top 5 of most sinister logos."
#5- Alfa Romeo
"Yes, I agree they make great looking European cars. But look closely at the logo. Why is there a snake eating a little terrified guy on it? I mean me personally, I’m a human, not a giant snake-dragon. So the fact that a snake is eating a person is unsettling for me because I tend to identify with the person and not the giant crowned snake. If you look at the logo’s history, the ancient ones depicted the guy in a more vivid way."
"In older logos, the little guy is in different color, still waving his arms in a seemingly desperate cry for help
The official story of the logo is that Romano Cattaneo was given the task to come up with a badge for the then new company, in 1910. While waiting for a train at Piazza Castello in Milan, he gained inspiration from the Visconti family’s coat of arms displayed on a door. It features a “biscione” which is a serpent eating a human child. It reportedly terrified the local populous of Milan in the early part of the 5th century A.D. It has been said that the human being eaten is a Moor, during the Crusades. If that’s the case, who or what does the serpent symbolize?.."
Original:
Top 5 Most Sinister Corporate Logos
Related:
Is it Something in the Water?
Monday, September 20, 2010
Mapping Stereotypes
Europe According to USA
Europe According to France
Europe According to Germany
Europe According to Italy
Europe According to Bulgaria
Europe According to Britain
Murder Suspect to Plead Insanity by Caffeine
(AP) A Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife is poised to claim excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left him so mentally unstable he couldn't have knowingly killed his wife, his lawyer has notified a court.
Prince Charles Eavesdrops on Tourists, Speaks to Plants
He was, of course, trying to eavesdrop on some of the 30,000 annual tourists who pay 15 pounds each to tour his 900-acre royal estate in Gloucestershire...
"I happily talk to the plants and trees, and listen to them. I think it's absolutely crucial," the prince says. "Everything I've done here, it's like almost with your children. Every tree has a meaning for me..."
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Commissioner in Lunacy
Basil Hood was born in Yorkshire, the younger son of the psychiatrist Sir Charles Hood, M.D., treasurer to Bethlehem Hospital and a Commissioner in Lunacy.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
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