Forget Wal-Mart and its soul-crushing ways, there is a new target for your consumer rage…or at least mine. J.C. Penney recently unveiled a new advertising/public relations campaign designed – in theory – to make them seem more customer friendly. No-questions-asked returns, the elimination of coupons, and a supposed move away from “sale” pricing. Also, prices … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2012
A Tall Glass of Blast From the Past
If you didn’t know better, you might swear that last night’s broadcast of the Academy Awards was a repeat; some nostalgic soul must have broken into the control room and started airing clips from Oscars past. It’d be a pretty easy mistake to make. With veteran Billy Crystal as host, awards going to Meryl Streep … Continue reading
History / Movies / Teh Interwebz / Writing
Disappearing Ink
Twelve years ago, in the not-so-world-ending year of 2000, I was a high school senior and Co-Editor of my high school newspaper, The Rayflector. I did not excel at much in school, but the newspaper was a point of pride for me and still is. (I also founded and ran the school’s only “underground” newspaper … Continue reading
Entertainment / Movies / Women
The Potential of Amanda Seyfried
Amanda Seyfried is puzzling. She’s gorgeous, almost ethereally so. Her tremendous eyes and full lips call to mind some beautiful alien princess, but she somewhat paradoxically has this girl-next-door vibe. She seems approachable. In a way, she’s Scarlett Johansson at both phases of her career simultaneously: the down-to-earth beauty and the stunning sex-bomb. Seyfried rose … Continue reading
Entertainment / History / Life / Movies
Silent Running
Life, of course, intervenes. It has been one week since last we spoke (and by “spoke,” I mean I hurl words at you from a computer screen), and the reason for that is simple, if not entirely acceptable: I had stuff to do. And my unwillingness to write on my 30th birthday certainly put a … Continue reading
Owl In A Jar
I work in a grocery store. Actually, a high-end grocery store that has plenty of specialty items. Customers will often come up and ask if we have some bizarre thing I’ve never heard of, I’ll ask someone else about it, and they’ll say, “Oh yes, we carry two kinds, but we just ran out … Continue reading
Baltimore Avenue
Simply put, Mega Class 12 Actuary Force Squad-Z IV: Requiem of Sonata’s End is not only the best video game ever made, but also the best snowplow as well. Made exclusively for the PlayStation Crab, it is likely the first game on the system to take full advantage of the claw-controls and the Dual-Pinch technology. … Continue reading
Rhoades to Madness 