No sooner did my Frye Campus boots arrive...
…did I stumble across these babies from Jeffrey Campbell, who I’m convinced is trying to kill me slowly.
Brit Boot, Jeffrey Campbell, $248
Oh and these, the Bleach Black Boot also from Frye, $338.
I will literally be the old woman who lives in her shoes. Er, boots.
Frye Campus Boots in Saddle, $278
AARON RUELL’S LG “GIVE IT A PONDER” CAMPAIGN IS OUT
And it’s hi-larious. Think it over, kids.
Just had my first experience with Google feeding live tweets into its search results. The Official Google Blog announced this phenomenon back in October but I had yet to witness it first hand. Tweets actually appear in real time as they are tweeted (twat? haha) with the goal that “search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data”.
Just another advance in our quest for instant gratification. Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane.
Thanks to @msdollaz for bringing the start of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” to my attention this morning. Many months back I posted the casting to my friend Shmoed’s facebook.
This is Shmoed. He is a fist-pumping, sparkles wearing, fake tanner applying, blow-out sporting, Staten Island hailing, eyebrow waxing, Djai’s frequenting guido.
He is also the nicest human being on the planet, so don’t let those freaks on the show mislead you.
Yesterday a friend posted on his wall,”Looking forward to seeing you on an episode of the Jersey Shore.”
Came across this gem of a website today, sure to waste plenty of your time.
Google is taking it to a whole other level.
Lately I’m digging headgear with ears. Check out various animal toppers at Berkeleyhat.com. Among pandas and lions (inset), they have basically every other kind of hat you could think of. Music to my knit ears.
Some marketing amazingness in an open letter to Stephen Colbert from Miracle Whip, as seen in amNewYork on November 12th:
Dear Mr. Colbert,
Recently on your show, you tapped into a sore spot in our nation’s psyche: the eternal struggle between mayonnaise and Miracle Whip. And surprisingly, for a man of your impeccable intellect, you’ve chosen the wrong side. A side doomed to a painful, drawn-out, utter and complete defeat. Like the Plantagenets in the Hundred Years’ War. Or whichever on was the cat in “Tom and Jerry.”
Mr. Colbert, we found your attacks a little harsh, occasionally funny, and at times, wholly inaccurate (for the record, our target is 18-35, not 34). But unlike most advertisers who are so mayo, who would back down at the slightest whiff of controversy, and pull their advertising from not just your show but from your entire network and all its sister entities – we intend to do the opposite.
On Thursday, November 12, we will dominate the airspace on your show. With every commercial break, your viewers will be exposed to hardcore Miracle Whip attitude and revelry. You will see our legion of (as you call them) “mayonay-sayers” snarfing sandwiches topped with our one-of-a-kind flavor in a very cool and totally hip way. They will be in your face and massively dope. It goes without saying, they WILL NOT TONE IT DOWN. And you will begin to see the soft, bland white walls of the mayo empire begin to collapse under the weight of its own whipped-egg pretentiousness.
Think about it, Mr. Colbert. In a sense, we will own you.
We’re on a mission. We’re taking no prisoners.
We’re raising Hell, man.
THE BOLD MARKETING TEAM AT MIRACLE WHIP
Miracle Whip! You saucy bastards!!
“ The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble.
Ellen DeGeneres
![Lately, Hitler has been coming at me from all angles in a strange series of events leading up to the start of Hannukah next week. My sister is taking some sort of Holocaust class, prompting her to announce that she thinks Hitler was the greatest leader to ever live. Prompting my father’s head to explode. And he’s not even the Jewish parent.
The quiet suburban town I live in has also brought Hitler to light recently. In the ongoing battle to keep Christmas alive, two mothers stood up to the school board asking that holiday related items actually be sold at the Holiday Fair. To which another parent responded, “If we allow Santa, what do we say if a child brings in a swastika? Do we allow that too?” Well no, Sir, because that would be ridiculous. One is a fictional jolly man that spreads cheer and material possessions, and one is responsible for the death of 11 million people.
But irony that is my life didn’t stop there. While working in the Lucien Aigner archive, I’ve come across a project from 1941 taking place at the elementary school at Hunter College in New York. Aigner had children make drawings and written explanations depicting their thoughts on WWII, as well as a psychologist analyzing them.
The drawings are in a word, indescribable. Children drew Hitler bleeding, bombs being dropped on houses, and Uncle Sam standing menacingly over Nazis, with notes saying that they hate Hitler and America will prevail.
I can’t help but to think about what would happen in a similar project regarding today’s war. Would they be so powerful? So comprehensive? So patriotic? The people that fought in WWII literally saved the world, but I think the world is starting to forget.
So I did some research. What would have happened if Hitler had succeeded? Winston Churchill mused “…if we fail [to defeat Hitler], then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
It’s my assumption that many parent’s of the children that created these drawings inevitably became involved in WWII in one way or another, in an attempt to preserve a way of life in which their children would be free to experience all the world has to offer.
Yet here we are, banning red a green tissue paper from a children’s holiday shop. In December 2001, while Christmas cards, symbols and decorations were being objected to for the first time in American public schools in Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Oregon, in an elementary school in Texas, a girl was allowed to give to her classmates an overview and show a video about her Muslim religion.
We live in this country because it’s free. Because we can do and say and practice as we please. And because in the end Hitler didn’t succeed in creating a uniform race. But as the world gets smaller and conflicts get larger, we sacrifice more and more in the name of being politically correct. Like candy canes in grade school.](http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktzo7q5BmC1qzawv3o1_500.jpg)
Lately, Hitler has been coming at me from all angles in a strange series of events leading up to the start of Hannukah next week. My sister is taking some sort of Holocaust class, prompting her to announce that she thinks Hitler was the greatest leader to ever live. Prompting my father’s head to explode. And he’s not even the Jewish parent.
The quiet suburban town I live in has also brought Hitler to light recently. In the ongoing battle to keep Christmas alive, two mothers stood up to the school board asking that holiday related items actually be sold at the Holiday Fair. To which another parent responded, “If we allow Santa, what do we say if a child brings in a swastika? Do we allow that too?” Well no, Sir, because that would be ridiculous. One is a fictional jolly man that spreads cheer and material possessions, and one is responsible for the death of 11 million people.
But irony that is my life didn’t stop there. While working in the Lucien Aigner archive, I’ve come across a project from 1941 taking place at the elementary school at Hunter College in New York. Aigner had children make drawings and written explanations depicting their thoughts on WWII, as well as a psychologist analyzing them.
The drawings are in a word, indescribable. Children drew Hitler bleeding, bombs being dropped on houses, and Uncle Sam standing menacingly over Nazis, with notes saying that they hate Hitler and America will prevail.
I can’t help but to think about what would happen in a similar project regarding today’s war. Would they be so powerful? So comprehensive? So patriotic? The people that fought in WWII literally saved the world, but I think the world is starting to forget.
So I did some research. What would have happened if Hitler had succeeded? Winston Churchill mused “…if we fail [to defeat Hitler], then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
It’s my assumption that many parent’s of the children that created these drawings inevitably became involved in WWII in one way or another, in an attempt to preserve a way of life in which their children would be free to experience all the world has to offer.
Yet here we are, banning red a green tissue paper from a children’s holiday shop. In December 2001, while Christmas cards, symbols and decorations were being objected to for the first time in American public schools in Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Oregon, in an elementary school in Texas, a girl was allowed to give to her classmates an overview and show a video about her Muslim religion.
We live in this country because it’s free. Because we can do and say and practice as we please. And because in the end Hitler didn’t succeed in creating a uniform race. But as the world gets smaller and conflicts get larger, we sacrifice more and more in the name of being politically correct. Like candy canes in grade school.
