It's a high holy day for the legions of atheists, humanists, godless, or any number of other self-labels people irked by religion call themselves. Tonight's premiere of Season 5 of The Walking Dead warms the zombie-loving hearts of people who revel in televised gore, violence, and societal descent into anarchy. Retailers have long noted an economic shift from Christmas decoration fervor to enhanced and prolonged Halloween euphoria. It's not totally true. Halloween has grown exponentially but still trails #1 Christmas, then Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, Father's Day, and Super Bowl sales. Back to school sales are actually ranked #2 but that's no holiday...that is a HELL worse than a zombie apocalypse. Zombies rule, at least in cinema. Decider.com
Month: February 2015
Every 90s commercial rolled into one
He’s been there. He’ll be there. He’ll do his best to remember what happened.
Suddenly, NBC news anchor Brian Williams is on a self-imposed hiatus. I'm not sure that I believe the self-imposed part of this story. It keeps getting worse for America's top rated news anchor. The lies are stacking up. NBC news anchor Brian Williams, celebrated in NBC promos as an anchor who has "been there" and "will be there," is being roundly mocked online after the revelation that his decade old war story was a massive lie. "The View" co-host Rosie O'Donnell isn't having any part of Lyin' Brian Williams' story. Others now claim Williams lied during his award-winning broadcasts during the Hurricane Katrina tragedy in New Orleans. Slate.com offers a timeline of NBC and Brian Williams advancing the same untrue story of the
Go West, young man – It’s WHAS-TV reunion time
Amid the WHAS-TV reunion memories, former news anchor Jean West told a great story from our early days at the station. In 1986, I took an opportunity to shock a Klansman who was to be interviewed about his request to the city for a White Power rally. As Klansman Kenny King (KKK!) sat quietly awaiting reporter John McGrath and a camera operator, I strolled into the lobby holding Jean's hand and leaned down to plant a passionate kiss on her right in front of the stunned racist. McGrath, who enjoyed interviewing societal outcasts, later said Kenny the Klansman needed 10 minutes to compose himself before he could do the interview. The reunion of former WHAS-TV employees is to celebrate the station's
Wet Wisdom
At least we occasionally use it for noble causes.
50 Shades of Variation
Our culture sends so many mixed messages about potential, achievement, and happiness. The above "Throw like a girl" campaign brilliantly shows how simple phrases can damage psyches of significant portions of the population. Earlier campaigns drove home awareness to purge "that's so gay" or "that's so retarded" for their obvious negative results. Women can be the biggest supporters of other women or the harshest critics of same. There are lots of complaints about males objectifying women. Nonetheless, the dominant percentage of awards show audiences are females, many of whom use social media and entertainment shows to judge the outfits and hairstyles of celebrities. Women are empowered to be sexual cads, too. BTW, she apologized after a tsunami of Internet
Communication Breakdown
--------"I don't know what it is I like about you but I like you a lot." - heady lyrics performed by Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant A parade of Led Zeppelin hits