Thanks to popular music, brands can now live forever. You don’t need to look further than Nelly’s Air Force Ones for proof. I think this is a hilarious phenomenon. I would have loved to see this in the olden days, if only to see the evolution of brand attitudes. Imagine Beethoven naming “Symphony no 9″ [...]

There’s nothing like the feeling of knowing that you don’t belong somewhere. I am reminded of this whenever I step inside a Hollister retail store, which is so teen it hurts. No brand name over the front doors, no glass windows to see inside, and two Tiger Beat model types to greet you on the [...]

I am infuriated every time I see A&W commercials these days. Especially the one where a couple is still hungry after a date at a fancy restaurant, so they head to A&W. These ads are targeted at baby boomers — why?! This is a demographic that is supposed to be watching their health, not knocking [...]

For many, it’s a beautiful fantasy. For the lovelorn, ugly-duckling B-listers in high school who’ve changed their fortunes, the high school reunion is a spectacle of ego, triumph and redemption. Those stories make fantastic TV! Jenny Jones knew it with her Geek-to-Chic shows…Artie Zif and Marge Simpson…Romy and Michelle, you get the point. Unfortunately, Facebook [...]