Beanies, baby
three tigers for ultimate January, and a day continuing the theme of late-January early-death birthdays: Robert Burns, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Edward Sapir in an earlier posting of mine...
View ArticleThe two ages of Interwoven sock ads
Bubbled up recently on Facebook and elsewhere, references to two chapters in the history of American advertising: Interwoven-brand stockings as icons of male sexiness, first in the 1920s and 30s, then...
View ArticleFlagging DEI
(These are rough times, and I’m going to use some very rough language; I think the world would be a better place if we all just got comfortable with this language — and what it conveys — but I...
View ArticleA revilation of the NYT business department
I come to revile the New York Times‘s business department. Don’t tell me to complain to them; I’ve done that, and nothing came of it beyond my getting insulted by the reps on the phone (and this is how...
View ArticleDEI t-shirts
[Sexual acts discussed in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest] No, not like my excellent TeePublic DEI t-shirt — (#1) A shout-out for diversity, equity, and inclusion but a...
View ArticleStair cruising
[Time to return to the world of raunchy men’s underwear ads; what follows is not for kids or the sexually modest] I have a verse (which is a play on a familiar comic poem): (#1) “Stair Cruising”, a...
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